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  • Signed, Sealed... Delivered?

    Behind Certifications and Beyond Labels

    16 Nov 2011 – Report

    Signed, Sealed...Delivered? looks 'behind certifications and beyond labels' at how these tools, and the performance standards that underpin them, create business value.

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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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  • Issue Brief: Valuing Nature

    The Economics of Ecosystem Services

    13 May 2010 – Article

    Can placing a price on ecosystem services help prevent further degradation and depletion of the natural resources society depends on?

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  • The Biodiversity Challenge for Business

    2010 is International Year on Biodiversity, but what might it mean for business?

    01 Nov 2009 – Article

    John Elkington and Jennifer Biringer suggest that biodiversity may soon force its way higher on the corporate sustainability agenda.

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  • Citigroup Versus Bank of America: US Banks Compete to Go Green (Nikkei Ecology)

    Citigroup invests 50 billion dollars in environmental projects including natural energy

    07 Aug 2007 – Article

    As Citgroup and Bank of America compete with multi-billion-dollar environmental investment initiatives, we ask, how can the outside world check up on the sort of claims such companies are now making? How can we hold them accountable?

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  • Radar: The Consumer Issue

    Born to Shop?

    05 Dec 2004 – Radar Archive

    The facts on such issues as fair wages, eco-efficiency, chemical loads and human rights demand that we consume more carefully. The issue confronts the complexities of trying to reconcile our ‘wants’ with our ‘needs’.

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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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