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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- 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;S. Vellema / 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...
- How do companies respond to pressure from social activists and shareholders for information disclosure?
- ( E.M. Reid;M.W. Toffel / Harvard Business School , 2008)
- Social activists are increasingly attempting to directly influence corporation behavior, using tactics such as shareholder resolutions and product boycotts to encourage companies to improve their envi...
- Emergence of the green employment market
- ( S. Sweeney;M. Renner;J. Kubit / International Labour Organization , 2008)
- Amidst a visible period of transition with trade unions, employers’ organisations, the private sector and the UN allying themselves to low-carbon and sustainable thinking, this paper reports on ...
- Constraints and opportunities for community-based forest enterprises in Nepal
- ( Center for International Forestry Research , 2008)
- Based on a study involving 28 different types of community-based forest enterprises (CBFEs), this policy brief summarises the important constraints affecting CBFEs in Nepal. It identifies key areas fo...
- Climate change and low carbon living - the need for urgent attention
- ( D. Bhattachary / National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts , 2008)
- Identifying climate change as a global problem that needs urgent attention, this paper provides a number of learning points about sustainability, particularly in terms of selling the concept of a low ...
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