Survey on Key Challenges and Industry Performance

Results from The Sustainability Survey

19 Sep 2011 – Report

What are the most urgent challenges facing society today? And which of 17 industry sectors are doing the most effective job of managing the most urgent challenges?

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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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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Grist)

Business leaders honed in on climate, carbon, and concrete at Davos

09 Feb 2007 – Article

There was something different in the air at this year's WEF. Instead of the irrational exuberance of the 1990s or the celebrity-studded glitz of recent years, we found upbeat but serious discussion of big issues – climate change in particular.

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Country Study: Brazil

Country of Diversities and Inequalities

23 Feb 2006 – Report

Embracing the Amazon rainforest and the sprawling cities and shanty towns of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janiero, Brazil is a land where modern industry and commerce has flourished alongside extraordinary inequality, poverty, crime and violence.

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Radar: The China Issue

What Does the Future Hold?

08 Feb 2006 – Radar Archive

How China’s growing role and influence on the world stage may have more to offer sustainable development than is commonly acknowledged.

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Radar: The Security Issue

Safety, Comfort and Protection, But At What Cost?

05 Oct 2005 – Radar Archive

Security touches us deeply because it feeds off, and can fuel, our fears. Offers of security draw us with promises of safety, comfort and protection. The question though, is at what cost to freedom and opportunity, for us and for society at large?

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Radar: The G8 Issue

Is the G8 Outmoded?

04 Jun 2005 – Radar Archive

Is the G8 outmoded, as a group of leaders based on geographical borders? Given the questions that they are addressing, isn’t there an irresistible case to enhance the diversity of the group? And where are the other players in the G8 discussions?

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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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Why I'm Going to Davos (openDemocracy)

16 Jan 2003 – Article

A veteran green activist, allergic to summits, looks at the past and future of the World Economic Forum.

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