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  • Citystates

    How cities are vital to the future of sustainability

    13 Mar 2012 – Report

    As models of characteristics such as connectivity, adaptability and decisiveness cities offer a compelling frame through which to understand and drive sustainability.

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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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  • Issue Brief: Climate Change and Global Health

    The Role for Business

    11 Jan 2011 – Article

    An overview of the health-related challenges posed by climate change, with a number of inspiring examples of how the private sector can contribute products, services and expertise to help tackle these challenges.

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  • Road to Credibility 2010

    A Survey of Sustainability Reporting in Brazil

    28 Oct 2010 – Report

    Road to Credibility 2010 focuses on how effectively Brazilian businesses are reporting on their sustainability efforts.

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  • Issue Brief: Displacement

    Making displacement work for everyone

    01 Apr 2009 – Article

    This issue brief explores ways in which companies that displace can ensure the rights of the displaced are respected – and in the best of cases, responsible companies can leave them economically and socially better off.

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  • Pharma Futures 3

    Emerging Opportunities

    23 Feb 2009 – Report

    Emerging markets are now significant players in global trade. Yet they are also very different than mature markets and more complex to manage. For the pharmaceutical industry in particular, they have often presented both challenges and opportunities.

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  • Crunch Time for China (Director)

    30 Nov 2008 – Article

    China now faces a disorienting triple crunch, and its responses will powerfully shape our world 15 years hence.

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  • In Doha’s Fading Light, a Call to Action (China Dialogue)

    13 Oct 2008 – Article

    Nationalistic tendencies have hindered the world’s ability to address developing countries’ interests. A solution that fosters cooperation while supporting the principles of sustainable development is crucial write John Elkington and Jodie Thorpe.

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  • Enter the Social Entrepreneur (Época Negócios)

    25 Sep 2008 – Article

    Enter the social entrepreneur, who we believe will increasingly be seen as a leading indicator of corporate innovation, resilience and, ultimately, longer-term sustainability.

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  • Supply and Demand (China Dialogue)

    11 Sep 2008 – Article

    The unsung heroes of globalisation are those working to help suppliers act effectively and sustainably, write John Elkington and Jodie Thorpe. Now nongovernmental groups are getting involved in the process.

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  • It's Family Business (Época Negócios)

    25 Aug 2008 – Article

    It's time to look closer at how family-owned businesses manage sustainability.

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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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  • Moving Beyond Philanthropy (China Dialogue)

    31 Jul 2008 – Article

    Chinese entrepreneurs contributed millions of dollars to earthquake relief efforts, a welcome upsurge in charitable giving. But for John Elkington and Jodie Thorpe, it is more important that businesses integrate social responsibility into their core

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  • Can We Have Sustainability Without Democracy? (Época Negócios)

    28 Jul 2008 – Article

    Is democracy necessary for sustainable development — or does it get in the way?

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  • Keeping It in the Family (China Dialogue)

    01 Jul 2008 – Article

    Family ownership can imbue a firm with a sense of purpose and values its rivals may lack. John Elkington, turning to China’s emerging entrepreneurs, says it’s time to consider best practice in this much-overlooked sector.

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