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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change, Corporate Social Responsibility

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  Offsetting emissions: a business brief on the voluntary carbon market

  Business for Social Responsibility, 2006

  This brief documents the growing interest in voluntary carbon markets and recommends steps for businesses who are interested in purchasing voluntary offsets.
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  Remaining drops: freshwater resources: a global issue

  Pacific Institute, 2006

  This report, targeted at the financial sector, outlines key trends in water use and availability, describes new water-related risks and identifies strategies for the financial community to assess investment opportunities and dangers in order to reduce investment risk.
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  A three-pronged approach to corporate climate strategy

  Business for Social Responsibility, 2006

  This report outlines components of a smart corporate strategy for companies that are serious about climate change. The report provides a brief background on corporate reactions to climate change and outlines areas where companies can focus and how they can move towards becoming carbon neutral.It argues that a spectrum of actions are needed to develop a climate change corporate strategy.
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  Climate change: adapt or bust

  Lloyds, 2006

  As part of Lloyd’s ‘360 Risk Project’, which aims to generate debate on key insurance industry issues, this report urges insurers to face up to the growing threat of climate change.
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  The validity of food miles as an indicator of sustainable development

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK, 2005

  This study assesses whether a practical and reliable indicator based on food miles can be developed, and whether this would be a valid indicator of progress towards the objectives of the sustainability in the UK.The study compiles a food miles dataset covering the supply chain from farmer (both UK and overseas) to consumer for 1992, 1997 and 2002.
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  Financing energy efficiency: lessons from recent experience with a focus on Brazil, China and India

  International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Minsk, 2006

  Without gains from energy efficiency efforts, China, India and Brazil are projected to more than double their energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in a single generation, resulting in major impacts on the global energy system and climate.
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  Climate change and the financial sector: an agenda for action

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  This 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 proactive
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  Gas flaring in Nigeria: a human rights, environmental and economic monstrosity

  Friends of the Earth International, 2005

  This report examines the social, environmental and economic consequences of gas flaring- the process of burning-off surplus combustible vapours from a well, either as a means of disposal or as a safety measure - in the Niger Delta. More gas is flared in Nigeria than anywhere else in the world.
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  Pumping poverty: Britain's Department for International Development and the oil industry

  Friends of the Earth, 2005

  UK aid money is creating an "oil curse" for developing economies, according to this new report published by Friends of the Earth, Plan B and Platform Research.
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  The changing landscape of liability: a director’s guide to trends in corporate environmental, social and economic liability

  SustainAbility, 2004

  This report argues that there is a convergence of moral and legal liability, which has implications for business and shareholder value.

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