Business & SD News - 14 June 2007
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- Shareholders Push Social and Environmental Issues to the Forefront
- Anti-corruption - Another stab at integrity
- Aviation and Climate Change
- Private capital flowing, but there's still room for growth
- New 'green' pyre to cool planet while burning India's dead
- China to restrict ethanol, coal industries
- G8 deal sends search for climate deal on road to Bali
- Climate change has 'no influence' on fund managers
- New tool will assess corporations' global water availability risks
- New Study Asks: Can Globalization and Sustainability Coexist?
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Shareholders Push Social and Environmental Issues to the Forefront
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SocialFunds.com, 13 June 2007 - With weeks still left in the US proxy
season, the 2007 season is on track to set new record highs for the
number of social and environmental resolutions in front of
shareholders.
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http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=MjUxMTc
Anti-corruption - Another stab at integrity
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Ethical Corporation, 13 June 2007 - Anti-corruption initiatives
abound in Latin America, largely unsuccessfully, but a new private-
sector pact in Brazil might just make a difference.
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http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=MjUxMDc
Aviation and Climate Change
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GLOBE-Net, 13 June 2007 - The aviation sector is responsible for a
small but growing proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Recently the industry has been put in the spotlight, and there is a
push for technological and policy solutions to improve emissions
performance. Over the past year, airlines, aircraft manufacturers, and
governments have initiated significant actions to address the sector's
contribution to climate change.
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http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=MjUxMTg
Private capital flowing, but there's still room for growth
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Financial Times, 11 June 2007 - Five years ago clean energy was an
investment backwater, the concern only of environmental alarmists and
obscure academics. Now it has entered the mainstream and is set to
enjoy even more growth in years to come, according to the Carbon
Trust, the government body charged with cutting carbon emissions.
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http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=MjUwNzk
New 'green' pyre to cool planet while burning India's dead
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AFP, 11 June 2007 - The average Indian may go through an entire life
without contributing a huge amount to the world's production of
greenhouse gases, but in death his carbon footprint jumps.
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http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=MjUwNzQ
China to restrict ethanol, coal industries
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AFP, 10 June 2007 - China will restrict its ethanol and coal
liquidification industries as part of efforts to address environmental
pollution and realise sustainable development, state press said
Sunday.
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http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=MjUwNzY
G8 deal sends search for climate deal on road to Bali
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AFP, 9 June 2007 - A Group of Eight accord on cutting dangerous
greenhouse gas emissions has breathed new life into the search for a
follow-up accord on global warming spearheaded by the UN.
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http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=MjUwNzc
Climate change has 'no influence' on fund managers
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Environmental Finance, 7 June 2007 - The climate may be changing, but
most institutional investors are not changing their investment
strategies, according to a survey of UK asset managers published this
week.
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http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=MjUwNTc
New tool will assess corporation's gobal water availability risks
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Inside Green Business, 6 June 2007 - The World Business Council for
Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is poised to unveil a software tool
that will allow corporations to assess water availability risk at any
location in the world, a unique tool that can help companies determine
which of their facilities are at the greatest risk of losing access to
water resources.
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http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=MjUwMzI
New Study Asks: Can Globalization and Sustainability Coexist?
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GreenBiz.com, 7 June 2007 - In a blunt assessment of the business
operating context in 2027, a new report sponsored by Shell, Ford, Novo
Nordisk, Vodafone, The Skoll Foundation and others predicts that not
only will there be new rules for sustaining business success over the
next twenty years, but that "the game itself is poised to change
profoundly. There will be winners and losers; but there is no more
business as usual."
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http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=MjUwNTQ
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