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The trade and environmental effects of ecolabels: assessment and response
United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2005This report reviews what is known about ecolabelling as an environmental policy tool and as a potential trade barrier.DocumentFair shares for all: ethical trading
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004Ethical trade in fresh produce offers poor farmers the potential for better income generation opportunities. However, do the criteria and tools for ethical trade, driven by western ideals, represent the perspectives of poor people involved in export horticulture?DocumentBTC Pipeline: an IFI recipe for increasing poverty
BankWatch, 2005This report details the infringements detected in the construction phase of the Georgian section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline.The pipeline has been build by a consortium led by BP, in order to bring oil from Caspian Sea oilfields to Western markets.DocumentMaking profits, protecting our planet: corporate responsibility for environmental performance in Asia and the Pacific
Asian Development Bank Institute, 2005This document highlights findings and recommendations as detailed in the second Asian Development Bank report into Asian environmental concerns. The authors focus on the private sector to examine how companies are responding to new legal, social, and market pressures for improved environmental performance.DocumentThe oil for ape scandal: how palm oil is threatening orang-utan survival
Friends of the Earth, 2005This report discusses the imminent threat of extinction to orang-utan in Malaysia and Indonesia bought about by the production of palm oil (a source of vegetable oil).DocumentClimate change and the financial sector: an agenda for action
WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005This report identifies risks for the financial sector which are due to climate change, and develops actions that demonstrate how integrated financial services companies can turn these risks into opportunities.The report highlights that:climate change is real, and happening around us already: it already results in about 160,000 deaths a yearexamples from industry show that proactiveDocumentHow Dutch public money is used to finance the oil industry
Milieudefensie, Friends of the Earth Netherlands, 2005This report investigates how Dutch public money is being used to support oil production in developing countries through Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) such as the World Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and other International Financial Institutions (IFIs).DocumentCorporate environmental governance: a study into the influence of environmental governance and financial performance
The Environment Agency, 2004Based on 15 case studies as well as a literature review, this study assesses whether there is a link between corporate environmental governance and financial performance.The overall evidence of the study is strongly supporting the argument that sound environmental governance policies, practices and performances are likely to improve in improved financial performance.DocumentBiodiversity offsets: views, experience and the business case
World Conservation Union, 2004This report explores the potential of biodiversity offsets, which the authors define as conservation activities that intend to compensate for the residual and unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects.