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  • The 2012 Sustainability Leaders

    A GlobeScan / SustainAbility Survey

    28 Mar 2012 – Report

    In The 2012 Sustainability Leaders GlobeScan and SustainAbility asked experts which sectors of society and which companies are most effectively advancing the sustainability agenda.

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  • Appetite for Change

    Reinventing the Global Food System

    23 Jun 2011 – Report

    Today's global food system is inherently unsustainable, and must be completely transformed. Appetite for Change was conceived to identify what change is needed, and the role the corporate sector must play in making it happen.

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  • The Biodiversity Challenge Revisited

    A Review of the Latest Research and Implications for Business

    27 Oct 2010 – Webinar

    Some businesses are gradually awakening to growing risks and new opportunities as the protection of species and genetic diversity prove more and more critical to global supply chains. Yet too many still assume that government alone has the answers.

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  • Knaves Turned Honest (Food Ethics Council)

    Can 21st century finance sustain 21st century agriculture?

    01 Mar 2010 – Article

    Alexa Clay and Sophia Tickell look at whether 21st century finance can sustain 21st century agriculture.

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  • Two Degrees Is Too Much

    08 Oct 2009 – Article

    With the clock ticking as we approach COP 15 in Copenhagen, Gary Kendall explains why the 2°C threshold for dangerous climate change is so important.

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  • Unchaining Value

    Innovative approaches to sustainable supply

    01 Aug 2008 – Report

    Unchaining Value argues that companies should redefine the goals of supply chain management from creating more value at less cost for the company, to creating more value for all supply chain participants at a lower cost to finite global resources.

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  • Unilever: Sustainable Fish (Nikkei Ecology)

    150 million times a day people buy Unilever brands. Where does sustainability fit in?

    05 Apr 2007 – Article

    Why Unilever, when it comes to sustainability, is a company to watch.

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  • Issue Brief: Water

    Every drop counts

    20 Apr 2004 – Article

    Water has become a defining sustainable development issue uniting a range of NGOs and activists - and cutting across interests from the environment to human rights, women’s rights and anti-globalization.

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  • Radar: The Commodities Issue

    The Taste for Commodities: Who Benefits?

    01 Apr 2004 – Radar Archive

    Commodities are the economic lifeblood of many developing countries. What is more, commodity production is often the source of profound and pervasive environmental impacts. In this issue of Radar, we ask, can there be sustainable commodities?

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  • Biotechnology: The Case for Sustainability

    26 Aug 2003 – Article

    The challenges of the 21st century – climate change, poverty, disease, demography – make biotechnology a potentially valuable tool. The question is: can it be used in ways that sustain democracy and public trust?

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