Results for Environment
International climate change
January 02, 2005 Climate change is back in the news. For CSR managers, a practical suggestion: in your next social report, clearly present how you are doing against Kyoto and national targets since 1990, and say what it would take to meet them by 2010 and 2050 Read more >
News round-up (Dec/Jan 04-05)
January 02, 2005 Global warming is such a big and complex issue that many despair if effective action can ever be taken quickly enough. Some companies are acting, however, and the momentum for change is growing. Read more >
Environment: climate change
July 01, 2004 Companies have done much to reduce their direct emissions in recent years. The climate change lobby shows no signs of slowing down, however, as attention now focuses on their indirect emissions. Read more >
Rio Tinto: developing and embedding corporate principles
January 02, 2004 Enron, CSR sceptics won't be slow to tell you, had an impressive set of business principles - and much good it did them. Briefing examines the strategy of Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining companies, to ensure that its business principles genuinely set the tone for the way it works. Read more >
Net gains: producer responsibilities in a digital world
November 01, 2003 Today's digital society of ebanking and mobile phones finds consumers more empowered than ever before. Does this reduce businesses' responsibility for the impact of their products? Not if the sustainable potential of these new technologies is ever going to be recognised, Vidhya Alakeson argues. Read more >
Commercial property industry: building the foundations
November 01, 2003 The hand of the commercial property industry is writ large on every urban landscape. As this bricks-and-mortar sector looks to manage its impacts, Briefing asks what's driving large property development and management companies to get the foundations of good corporate citizenship in place. Read more >
Environment: financing the business of sustainability
December 01, 2002 Groups of companies from the same industry sectors are increasingly tackling issues together. In the lead on measurement and reporting is the financial services sector. Read more >
Environment: WEEE goes to market
October 01, 2002 New legislation is set to boost the levels of reuse and recycling in electrical goods. Community businesses have a big role to play in helping companies reduce costs and meet legal responsibilities. Read more >