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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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  • The Future of Energy

    Findings from The Sustainability Survey

    08 Jun 2011 – Audio/Video

    Jeff Erikson interprets the latest survey on the future of energy – examining how governments will proceed, how experts perceive nuclear and what role energy will play in corporate sustainability strategies in the wake of Fukushima Daiichi.

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  • Keys to Transformative Leadership

    Webinar on findings from the GlobeScan/SustainAbility survey on leadership

    11 May 2011 – Webinar

    Transformative sustainability leadership was the subject of GlobeScan and SustainAbility’s latest joint survey and research which culminated with a public webinar on May 4.

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  • The Great Disruption

    A conversation with Paul Gilding

    10 May 2011 – Conversation

    Frances Buckingham speaks with Paul Gilding about his new book and his optimism for humanity's ability to successfully navigate, and be better off on the other side of, the Great Disruption.

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  • The Car Next Door: The Rise of Peer-to-Peer Social Innovation

    A conversation with WhipCar founder Vinay Gupta

    07 Apr 2011 – Conversation

    SustainAbility's Kyra Choucroun chats with Vinay Gupta, founder of WhipCar, about the opportunity to exploit 'idle assets', like your neighbor's car.

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  • Global Economic Recovery and Sustainability

    Findings from The Sustainability Survey

    07 Mar 2011 – Audio/Video

    In collaboration with GlobeScan we surveyed sustainability professionals and interviewed members of the SustainAbility Council to explore the following question: what does a global economic recovery mean for the corporate sustainability agenda?

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  • The Leading Edge of Sustainability

    New Spheres, New Mindsets, New Models

    11 Jan 2011 – Article

    We kicked off our 2010 Engaging Stakeholders members workshops with a discussion on sustainability leadership. Here are highlights of the themes that emerged.

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  • Open.com

    The role of open data in corporate responsibility and sustainability

    23 May 2010 – Article

    Why corporate sustainability strategists must usher in a new era of collaborative reporting and open data.

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  • Open Good, Closed Bad

    16 Apr 2010 – Article

    John Elkington and Alex Hammer on how social media technology is leveling the playing field in stakeholder engagement.

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  • Where Next with Social Media? (Época Negócios)

    04 Jul 2009 – Article

    John Elkington and Alex Hammer explore the implications and likely future of social media in driving new forms of corporate innovation and engagement on sustainability.

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  • Big Capitalism’s Growing Appetite for Social Enterprise (Nikkei Ecology)

    A look at Coca-Cola's new stakes in Innocent Drinks

    20 Jun 2009 – Article

    Coca-Cola’s embrace of Innocent will be an important test case of the ability of such corporate giants to dance with infinitely smaller partners without trampling them underfoot.

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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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  • Phoenix Will Rise Again (Director)

    30 Jan 2009 – Article

    Is the CSR director's role redundant in times of crisis?

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  • The Road to Credibility

    A Survey of Sustainability Reporting in Brazil

    09 Dec 2008 – Report

    The 8th global (in partnership with United Nations Environment Programme), and first national (in partnership with Fundação Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável), survey of corporate sustainability reporting completed for Global Reporters.

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