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Carrot v. Stick

The following blog entry is a cross-post from my blog Realizing Your Worth.



GUEST BLOG POST: Alyson Genovese… Continue

Added by Chris Jarvis on July 25, 2009 at 9:04am — No Comments

The new Green Standard: can Wal-Mart revolutionise the retail market?

The U.S. super-giant Wal-Mart last week announced plans to develop a worldwide sustainable product index that will record the ecological impact of every product the retailer carries. The sustainability of a product’s history will then be translated onto a label which the customer can see as they make their purchasing decisions. This sustainability index would be the first of its kind utilized at such a large scale and the retailer hopes that the index will become a new international retail… Continue

Added by Paige Andrews on July 25, 2009 at 6:58am — No Comments

UN PRI to kick out six signatories?

The United Nations Principles of Responsible Investments (“UN PRI”) recently published the results of its annual survey showing a number of positive developments. However, some signatories have failed to live up to their reporting duties and might be de-listed.



Is this a one-off event or is the PRI getting tougher? The UN PRI, which is an investor partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the UN Global Impact, has certainly received a… Continue

Added by Mans Carlsson-Sweeny on July 22, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Social Media & CSR: The Top 10 Sites for Creating Conversation

Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Green, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Volunteering. Get into the conversation - It starts here.



I have to admit, I’m always learning that I don’t know what I don’t know. When it comes to the exponentially expanding conversation… Continue

Added by Chris Jarvis on July 21, 2009 at 2:28am — No Comments

Al Gore in Melbourne to Address Climate Change

Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President and climate change campaigner, was in Melbourne on Monday for the launch of the new think tank Safe Climate Australia and to help train 300 people from 19 nations to address and encourage their leaders on the issue of climate change. Gore’s visit also coincides with Australia’s first ever Youth Climate Summit which hopes to mobilize a new generation of climate change activists. Speaking before a group of 1,000 Australian business leaders, Gore praised the… Continue

Added by Paige Andrews on July 15, 2009 at 12:56am — No Comments

ESG research: do investment professionals need more training?

More than half of the funds under management in Australia are managed by organisations who have committed to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment. While investment professionals working for these organisations are gradually acquiring the skills and expertise they need to conduct ESG analysis, they have not had access to any formal ongoing educational programs. As a result, responsible investment standards and practices vary significantly and there is no set definition of… Continue

Added by Mans Carlsson-Sweeny on July 13, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Stalemates and gestures as the G8 convenes in Italy

Environmental leaders from the Group of Eight (G-8) countries met this week in L’Aquila, Italy to discuss issues such as the economy and climate change. Members of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) on Energy and Climate were in attendance, consisting of the G8, G5, EU, Australia, Indonesia, Denmark and the Republic of Korea and accounting for nearly four-fifths of the world production of greenhouses gases. In a communiqué distributed on Thursday, the countries formally embraced limits to the rise… Continue

Added by Paige Andrews on July 11, 2009 at 2:19pm — No Comments

What is Social Innovation? Reflections from the National Conference for Service and Volunteering

Shannon Schuyler, US managing director of Corporate Responsibility, for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), is our guest blogger, writing from San Francisco at the National Conference for Service and Volunteering.

What is Social Innovation?



After three days of celebrating, learning and sharing with exceptional service… Continue

Added by Chris Jarvis on July 8, 2009 at 4:13am — No Comments

"Trade and Environment" - summary of a recent report by the WTO and UNEP

The WTO’s report on international trade and the environment

The report “Trade and Environment” was published by the WTO and UNEP on 26 June 2009 and investigates the intersections between climate change and trade from four different perspectives: the science of climate change; economics; multilateral efforts to tackle climate change; and national climate change policies and their effect on trade.



Both Executive Director Achim Steiner and the WTO’s Director General Pascal… Continue

Added by Mans Carlsson-Sweeny on July 6, 2009 at 7:47pm — No Comments

International trade vs protectionism…and the environment

Globetrotting crustaceans

A while ago I heard of a Scandinavian company that caught prawns in the Arctic Ocean, sent them to China where they were peeled and then sent back to Scandinavia where they eventually (after having been transported around a number of times) ended up on a plate somewhere. Unwittingly these prawns had been major CO2 culprits, not the least as they required frozen transport. This is just one example of trade routes that have opened up due to globalisation.… Continue

Added by Mans Carlsson-Sweeny on July 6, 2009 at 7:43pm — No Comments

Ways to Assist Power Shift!

The Australian Youth Climate Coalition has been working away for close to a year now planning Power Shift, the first ever national youth climate event. Over the 11-13th of July, thousands of young Australians will converge at the University of Sydney for this historic event.



As a climate change summit, Power Shift is unequalled in the opportunities and resources it provides to all attending. Notable aspects include keynote speeches from Tim Flannery, Julia Gillard, Rajendra Pachauri… Continue

Added by Linh Do on July 2, 2009 at 11:52am — 1 Comment

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