Business and the environment
- Comprehensive report detailing multi-sector trade opportunities and enabling conditions in the transition to a green economy
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2013
- Prepared by the Trade, Policy and Planning Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this report is a key component of the Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project (GE-TOP). The aim of GE-TOP is to identify opportu...
- Considering insurance in reducing disaster risk and advancing adaptation
- K. Warner; N. Ranger; S. Surminski / International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2010
- Development gains are increasingly at risk from climate change among other pressures. Adverse changes are already being observed in the amount, intensity, frequency and type of precipitation, resulting in drought, floods and tropical ...
- 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 diversify. The integration of environmenta...
- 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 correct violations they discover. The...
- 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 provide practical solutions to envi...
- 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 reduction projects in developing countries...
- 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 businesses to: un...
- 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 products, services and production meth...
- 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 in how to make environmental inform...
- 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 pineapple workers, their families and...
- Comprehensive report detailing multi-sector trade opportunities and enabling conditions in the transition to a green economy
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2013
- Prepared by the Trade, Policy and Planning Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this report is a key component of the Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project (GE-TOP). The aim of GE-TOP is to identify opportu...
- Considering insurance in reducing disaster risk and advancing adaptation
- K. Warner; N. Ranger; S. Surminski / International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2010
- Development gains are increasingly at risk from climate change among other pressures. Adverse changes are already being observed in the amount, intensity, frequency and type of precipitation, resulting in drought, floods and tropical ...
- 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 diversify. The integration of environmenta...
- 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 correct violations they discover. The...
- 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 provide practical solutions to envi...
- 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 reduction projects in developing countries...
- 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 businesses to: un...
- 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 products, services and production meth...
- 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 in how to make environmental inform...
- 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 pineapple workers, their families and...
- The Climate Group
- The Climate Group is an international, non-profit organisation based in London. The organisation's goal is to help government and business set the world economy on the path to a low-carbon, prosperous future through the formation of a coalition of governments and the world’s most influential businesses which are all committed to tackling climate change. Some of the initiativ...
- Climate Counts
- Bringing consumers and companies together in the fight against global climate change
- Amazon Watch
- Defending the environment and indigenous rights in the Amazon
- European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) (ECCJ)
- Coalition of European organisations working to promote corporate responsibility
- SwedWatch (SwedWatch)
- Swedish NGO monitoring Swedish companies' practices in the South
- F&C Asset Management plc
- Leading European asset management group
- Energy Transition Task Force
Realising a sustainable national energy economy
- ISEAL Alliance
- Association of voluntary international standard-setting and conformity assessment organisations that focus on social and environmental issues.
