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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Pharma Futures 2

    Prescription for Long-Term Value

    19 Jun 2007 – Report

    Phama Futures 2 outlines the findings of a 12-month dialogue between leading industry executives and major institutional investors on how the pharma sector can better deliver long-term value to shareholders and consumers.

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  • How Green is Green Enough? (Época Negócios)

    25 Apr 2007 – Article

    Is recent progress on corporate sustainability likely to be sufficient? In simple terms, how green is green enough – and where do wider social challenges like inequity, corruption or HIV/AIDS fit into the equation?

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  • Issue Brief: REACH

    Implications from laboratory to shop-shelf

    20 Feb 2007 – Article

    Why the new REACH regulation (standing for the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of CHemicals) is significant, not just for chemical companies but for whole swathes of industry and business in Europe and beyond.

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  • Skoll Paper 2: Barefoot Billionaires

    The big investors behind the social entrepreneurship boom

    02 Nov 2006 – Report

    Barefoot Billionaires looks at some of the big investors behind the social entrepreneurship boom, including: Bill Drayton, George Soros, Stephen Schmidheiny, Bill and Melinda Gates, and Klaus and Hilde Schwab.

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  • It's the Economics, Stupid (Grist)

    Has the corporate-responsibility movement lost sight of the big picture?

    09 May 2006 – Article

    Perhaps it's time to ask ourselves whether the language of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has blinded us to looming planetary and civilizational risks.

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  • Issue Brief: Chemicals

    Bodily trespass and the toxics debate in the EU

    25 Aug 2005 – Article

    Toxic chemicals have long been a priority of both leading chemical companies and campaigning NGOs. This Issue Brief examines how conflicts over the chemical safety regulation REACH have helped create and frame a new agenda and debate in this area.

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  • Issue Brief: HIV/AIDS

    What can business do?

    23 Dec 2004 – Article

    40 million people are estimated to be infected with HIV/AIDS. Companies impacted by HIV/AIDS are starting to take action, but many still need to define best practice and better understand the business case.

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  • Radar: The Sports Issue

    What's the Score?

    11 Aug 2004 – Radar Archive

    This edition covers some of the key issues that sport - and the sports industry - face in making a positive contribution to more sustainable forms of development.

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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 HIV/AIDS Issue

    Whose Catastrophe?

    10 Dec 2003 – Radar Archive

    In this edition of Radar we explore the business side of the HIV/AIDS tragedy, focusing on new scenarios, social enterprise responses, outsourcing, access to medicines and the potential of ‘open source’ thinking.

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  • Issue Brief: Nanotechnology

    It’s a small world

    15 Aug 2003 – Article

    Critics argue nanotechnology is being used without appropriate risk analysis or societal consultation. The potential stakeholder concerns could well put recent outrage around novel technology, like GM, in the shade.

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