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Sustainability Research: Government involvement is critical to the success of responsible business standards

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Explore the latest corporate sustainability research findings and make evidence-based decisions. Government involvement is critical to the success of responsible business standards. The OECD’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Are a set of standards that are underestimated by many corporations. But, the OECD is preparing for some revisions and a major push of the guidelines. Dr Sue Konzelmann and her colleagues at the London Centre for Corporate Governance and Ethics (LCGGE). This spring, the OEC...

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Sustainability Research: CCC says UK growth is dependent on low-carbon funding

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Explore the latest corporate sustainability research findings and make evidence-based decisions. CCC says UK growth is dependent on low-carbon funding. In the new report 'Building a low-carbon economy - the UK's innovation challenge'. The prestigious Climate Change Committee warns that economic growth and progress towards climate targets are dependent on continued funding of low-carbon technologies. Additional recommendations to the UK Government include longer-term climate change objectives (beyond 2020...

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Sustainability Research: OECD's MNE Guidelines to get a boost on supply chains, human rights & environment

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Explore the latest corporate sustainability research findings and make evidence-based decisions. OECD's MNE Guidelines to get a boost on supply chains, human rights and environment. On the 1st of June the OECD continued it's long, consultative process for updating the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. The OECD chose to strengthen the guidelines in response to stakeholder requests for a greater focus on human rights, supply chains and environment (a previous previous blog post. Hi, I'm Pam Muckosy...

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Clarity for the Green Economy: June 2010

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Clarity for the Green Economy. Helping small and not-so-small organizations make the transition to the Green Economy. Initiatives, innovation, csr and communicating sustainability, transparently. Wednesday, June 30, 2010. La responsabilité sociale en six étapes. Posted by Ian Ward. Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A place for analysis and dialogue on the progress and challenges facing companies of all sizes. All organizations can be sustainable. Wondering how your...

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Asymmetric transparency | Judy Kuszewski

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Thoughts on corporate responsibility and whatnot. Updated 16 October, 2013: See below for a note on the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Some of the language used is very grand, and rightly so. To think that millions of people are the subject of everyday surveillance is out of keeping with everything we’ve come to believe about modern freedoms. Edward Snowden, the former intelligence specialist who has outed himself as the story’s leak, has been quoted. But now we hear that government agencies the most se...

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New on the Shine blog – Fairytales for the boardroom: When it’s time to ‘kiss the frog’ | Judy Kuszewski

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Thoughts on corporate responsibility and whatnot. New on the Shine blog – Fairytales for the boardroom: When it’s time to ‘kiss the frog’. Here’s where I got to:. Jack and The Beanstalk as a myth of demons coming home to roost. The tale of Jack and the Beanstalk seems to be a fairy tale of endless growth; where a life of hard work is exchanged for magical seeds that, when planted in the ground, grow eternally fruitful up into the skies. Cinderella as a tale of unexpected values and rewards. The lesson, o...

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New on the Shine blog. Of hedge funds and fossil fuels: Are we seeing a new era of divestment? | Judy Kuszewski

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Thoughts on corporate responsibility and whatnot. New on the Shine blog. Of hedge funds and fossil fuels: Are we seeing a new era of divestment? Recent developments have brought divestment prominently to mind and prompted me to wonder if we are seeing the start of a wider trend. Calpers trims its hedges. In the first instance, Calpers, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, announced. Misgivings hit a new level last year when the Co-operative Group was forced. 8221; asked Labour MP John Mann.

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IFB: Buffett on keeping businesses for the long-term

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Wednesday, 16 May 2012. Buffett on keeping businesses for the long-term. Http:/ www.ifb.org.uk/. As a guest at the 2012 Berkshire Hathaway. Annual Shareholder Meeting, in Omaha, USA, popularly dubbed a Capitalist Weekend. All eyes are focused on CEO Warren Buffett. Sharing his 50 years plus experience as the world’s most renowned investor. For starters he spoke of goal clarity; investing in wonderful businesses - his eighty-eight-year-old partner Charlie Munger. On Board philosophy he invokes directors t...

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IFB: Ownership matters

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Thursday, 15 March 2012. Http:/ www.ifb.org.uk/. It was good to see the report of the Ownership Commission. Chaired by Will Hutton. Which was published yesterday, argue for plurality of ownership models in order to strengthen the economy. The Commission also calls for better stewardship where owners exercise a duty of care in relation to the assets they control. This is a characteristic that the IFB has already highlighted as an important performance lever in the. IFB Family Business Stewardship. The rep...

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IFB: February 2012

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Wednesday, 15 February 2012. Entrepreneurship – ‘If it isn’t broke, break it’. Http:/ www.ifb.org.uk/. How do owners come to terms with selling a successful business? At a dinner co-hosted by Mike Southon. FT entrepreneurship correspondent and. Co-author, the issue was debated by a group of enterprising business people. One of these explained how he was still struggling to come to terms with the void in his professional life following the successful sale of his business a few years ago. Is, ‘If it ...