Business and the environment
- Environmental pollution during the manufacture of electronic products
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Current use of hazardous chemicals and practices in the manufacture of electronic equipment is resulting in contamination of the environment with many hazardous chemicals, according to this report. To make matters worse, commonly used wastewater treatment processes are unable to deal with many of the chemicals used, including certain brominated flame-retardants and heavy metals.
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- Encouraging Asian pension funds to work towards a responsible future
- ( The Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia , 2009)
- Asia's pension funds are among the largest and fastest growing pools of capital in the region and their influence in the capital markets will continue to grow, especially as asset allocations diversif...
- Does self-policing improve environmental performance?
- ( M.W. Toffel;J.L. Short / Harvard Business School , 2008)
- This paper evaluates the self-regulatory practice known as self-policing among businesses, which involves encouraging regulated entities to monitor their own compliance with the law and report and cor...
- A review of the emerging management literature on self-regulatory institutions
- ( A. King;M.W. Toffel / Harvard Business School , 2007)
- This paper discusses how institutions can resolve environmental problems. The paper reviews the emerging management literature on self-regulatory institutions, suggesting that these institutions can p...
- Assessing the impact of the Clean Development Mechanism in the building sector
- ( C. Cheng;S. Pouffary;N. Svenningsen;M. Callaway / International Cleaner Production Information Clearinghouse, UNEP IE , 2008)
- The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was created under the Kyoto Protocol to help developed nations meet domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction commitments by investing in low-cost emission reductio...
- How business can act to help South East Asia adapt to climate change
- ( CSR Asia , 2009)
- This report discusses the impact of climate change in South East Asia stressing the critical importance of adaptation to inevitable impacts, such as more natural disasters.The report aims to help busi...
- Are agricultural corporations responding to environmental issues?
- ( K. Jansen (ed);S. Vellema (ed) / Zed Books , 2004)
- How far are agribusiness corporations responding to emerging environmental awareness to play their part in the 'greening' of agriculture and food? Are they developing new environmentally-friendly prod...
- Do MNCs in China honour their environmental information disclosure commitments?
- ( Greenpeace International , 2008)
- Western countries have established a relatively complete legal system for environmental information disclosure by businesses, and many multinational companies (MNCs) have gained practical experience i...
- Labour rights abuses in the pineapple supply chain
- ( International Labor Rights Forum , 2008)
- Since the 1960’s, pineapple production has quadrupled and export has tripled worldwide. While profits for some have tremendously expanded under such development, this report demonstrates how pin...
- How are Indian companies responding to climate change?
- ( R. Singh;P. Dickinson / Carbon Disclosure Project , 2007)
- This report presents the results of the first-ever voluntary disclosure of the carbon emissions of Indian companies. It is based on the submissions of 39 Indian corporations in response to the first i...
- Did the invisible hand have a green thumb all along?
- ( P. Desrochers;K. Lam / Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development , 2007)
- This paper discusses the creation of wealth from polluting waste in market economies before the birth of the modern environmental movement. It challenges the widely held view that ecologically efficie...
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