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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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  • The Inescapability of Traceability

    Is Big Oil Next?

    05 Dec 2011 – Report

    Growing interest in supply chain traceability is set to become a major aspect of corporate sustainability - and is likely to affect an unsuspecting oil industry.

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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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  • Urbanization and Megacities in Emerging Economies

    Findings from The Sustainability Survey

    10 Feb 2011 – Report

    GlobeScan and SustainAbility surveyed sustainability experts and practitioners to explore how the rise in urbanization and the growth of megacities, particularly in emerging economies, will impact the corporate sustainability agenda.

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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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  • 2008: A Year of Extremes (Nikkei Ecology)

    Weather, exchange rates, commodity prices and the potential for new economic paradigms

    15 Jan 2009 – Article

    2008 turned out to be a year of extremes. The question now is whether 2009 will join 1929, 1939 and 1989 in the list of years when a totally new economic and political order began to surface.

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  • A Silver Lining to the Credit Crisis (Qfinance)

    How the current pain can become investors' gain

    14 Nov 2008 – Article

    Peter Zollinger and John Schaetzel write for the online financial journal Qfinance, on how the current crisis offers the world an opportunity to rethink how to invest for the long-term.

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  • Subprimes et Mélamine, Deux Catastrophes Liées (Le Monde)

    18 Oct 2008 – Article

    Les chefs d'entreprise exploiteront-ils la crise comme alibi pour justifier l'inaction?

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  • Time to Tackle Subprime Supply Chains (Le Monde)

    A link between the credit crisis and Chinese toxic milk potentially affects us all

    18 Oct 2008 – Article

    For those business leaders wondering whether they can use the economic crisis as an alibi for inaction or cutting back, our answer is yes and no.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Painful Lessons from a Laptop Storm (Época Negócios)

    06 May 2008 – Article

    How helpful is the unsupervised use of computers to children in poor countries?

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  • Painful Lessons From A Laptop Storm (Nikkei Ecology)

    05 Mar 2008 – Article

    Our first question is this: How helpful is the unsupervised use of computers to children in poor countries? A lot hangs on the answer.

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  • Traceability in Overdrive (Época Negócios)

    08 Feb 2008 – Article

    Following a well-publicised series of product recalls by the US toymaker Mattel, the linked issues of supply chain management and product ‘traceability’ are back in the spotlight.

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