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HEINEKEN USA
HEINEKEN works with different industries to improve the environmental performance of marine container transport through BSR’s Clean Cargo Working Group.
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CSRHub
Even in the best case, the Paris climate talks will fail to reduce greenhouse gases below the level at which our world will be disastrously altered.
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GRI
GRI’s Sustainability and Reporting 2025 project is designed to promote an international discussion about the purpose of sustainability reporting and disclosures looking ahead to 2025. Watch this interview with Kumi Naidoo, International Executive…
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Justmeans
World leaders began meeting on November 30 to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. They have until December 11 to agree on a climate agreement good enough to keep temperature rise to two degrees. That’s the threshold scientists say we don’t…
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Toyota
Toyota team members are creatures of habitat. And a few who test vehicles for performance and reliability have become a part-time pit crew for red-tailed hawks at Toyota Arizona Proving Ground (TAPG) in Phoenix.
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Bloomberg
The two-week United Nations conference on climate change is halfway over, and no matter what else happens, it has already been a clear-cut success in two critical areas.
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Porter Novelli
COP21 runs the risk of falling short of expectations. In the wake of Montreal, Kyoto, Copenhagen and all the other COPs, leaders must sustain the massive drumbeat of COP21 engagement in order to make an impact far beyond the next week. Companies,…
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Ray C. Anderson Foundation
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United Nations Global Compact
December 5 was Action Day at COP21 and for the first time in the history of the COP climate conferences, business has an official role through the Lima-Paris Action Agenda (LPAA).
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BSR
The BSR COP21 Daily Dispatch highlights news and insights on the policy negotiations and their implications for business and a sustainable future for our climate.
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Bloomberg
Actor and Environmentalist Robert Redford and Bloomberg LP founder and majority owner Michael Bloomberg discuss the potential influence of Mayors on climate change at the COP21 Summit in Paris on "Bloomberg Markets."
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Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
Climate change is again trending as a topic within corporate citizenship and the larger business community. The release of Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si” (Be Praised), which highlights the impact developed economies are having on our planet…
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Antea Group
A three-day workshop of major water stakeholders in Nigeria was held last week as part of an initiative headed by Heineken International, Nigerian Breweries, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
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DuPont
The UN climate conference in Paris is underway now – with governments, NGOs, businesses and civil society organizations from around the world convening to solve one of our most pressing global challenges. The role of the private sector in tackling…
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Carnival Corporation
A three-year cooperation-based project promoting sustainable food on board cruise ships is the subject of the agreement announced today by Costa Cruises (www.costacruise.com) and the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo (www.unisg.it).
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BSR
The BSR COP21 Daily Dispatch highlights news and insights on the policy negotiations and their implications for business and a sustainable future for our climate.
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Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
Over the past year, the debate about what actions should be taken to halt climate change has continued in earnest. Involvement from experts, religious leaders, companies, activists, and consumers has reached a fever pitch, and governments have…
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21st Century Fox
On December 1, 21st Century Fox announced that it has joined the American Business Act on Climate Pledge, a new initiative from the Obama Administration in which a total of 154 companies from across the American economy have committed to demonstrate…
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United Nations Global Compact
According to a global study by the United Nations Global Compact and Accenture of 750 business leaders surveyed:
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Nestlé S.A.
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International Living Future Institute
As part of a bold initiative to counter the effects of climate change, the King County Council recently voted unanimously to approve its new Strategic Climate Action Plan (SCAP), laying out a blueprint for concrete, actionable work in the realm of…
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GRI
With the word’s hopes on Paris this week and the start of the 21st annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP21), we spoke to Nabeelah Shabbir, Journalist at the Guardian, to find out about their award-winning campaign (accolades include…
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UPS
Peter Harris from UPS talks about circular economy: taking raw materials that become waste and finding ways for the waste to become a resource.
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