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Transparency in Myanmar Enterprises: the best get better, but what about the others?

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Transparency in Myanmar Enterprises: the best get better, but what about the others? The Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) has launched its second Transparency in Myanmar Enterprises (TiME)/Pwint Thit Sa report. The 2015 report shows that the top companies which performed best in 2014 continue to be the most transparent in 2015. All of them have increased the amount of information they make available to the public. However, 39 of the 100 companies surveyed have no website, and score zero in ...

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New policy guide offers solutions for Asia’s sustainable consumption and production challenges

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New policy guide offers solutions for Asia’s sustainable consumption and production challenges. Prosperity need not cost the earth literally according to a new handbook that was released recently, which offers guidance to Asian policy makers on ways to sustainably manage the region’s fast-growing appetite for natural resources without affecting their countries’ ability to meet essential consumption needs. The new guide offers policy makers an overview of thematic solutions to sustainable production and c...

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Outcome Statement & Recommendations – Responsible Business Forum on Food & Agriculture, Hanoi 2015

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Outcome Statement and Recommendations - Responsible Business Forum on Food and Agriculture, Hanoi 2015. We are pleased to share with you the working group recommendations and outcome report from the 2nd Responsible Business Forum on Food and Agriculture. That was recently co-hosted on 23 & 24 June by Global Initiatives and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Vietnam. The report will automatically download when you click here. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the recommendations a...

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Can businesses drive social mobility?

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Can businesses drive social mobility? We have seen various news pieces demonstrating the entrenched lack of social mobility manifesting in the British education system and prestigious jobs. Research. From the Sutton Trust, an educational charity focused on social mobility, found that five schools send more students to Oxford and Cambridge Universities than the bottom 2,000 schools combined (in a study of 3,167 schools). Equal Approach, a diversity and inclusion consultancy, found. For the growing economy.

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Natural Capital at Risk – The Top 100 Externalities of Business

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Natural Capital at Risk - The Top 100 Externalities of Business. Many sectors from coal-fired power generation to cattle ranching and farming seem like money-spinning operations under conventional economic calculations. For example pre-tax profit margins for iron, steel, cement-making, petroleum and natural gas extraction sectors range from around seven per cent to nearly 20 per cent. The Trucost team estimates that overall the global top 100 environmental externalities are costing the economy world-wide...

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The global advance of benefit corporations gains momentum

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The global advance of benefit corporations gains momentum. Historically, broadminded businesses with environmental and social concerns high on their agenda faced a conundrum: what to do when the market pushes for profit at all costs? One slip against quarterly forecasts or a recession could be detrimental to a company’s sustainability initiatives. Shifting corporate structures and practices. Sitting on a spectrum between non-profit organisations and traditional corporate structures with a pure profit age...

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Can agriculture close the loop in animal feed?

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Can agriculture close the loop in animal feed? Animal feed comprises the most expensive part of livestock agriculture. Soy, corn and grain are the most common types of animal feed, but their use triggers several economic, social and sustainability issues. During the rise of agricultural production in the 20th century, both plant crops and animal matter. In the context of rising meat demand due to global economic and population growth. Production of plant-based feed, especially soy and corn. Furthermore, ...

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Outcome-based investment models, already pioneered in carbon finance

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Outcome-based investment models, already pioneered in carbon finance. In Kenya, health workers with smart phones and questionnaires will call on every family that received a LifeStraw. Water filter (pictured) in a recent project developed by health experts Vestergaard Frandsen. In collaboration with ClimateCare. This is the vision of Edward Hanrahan, Director of ClimateCare, who believes such a model could unleash funding for development projects on a scale never seen before. As calls for the private sec...

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Responsible Business Forum on Food and Agriculture 2014, Manila

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Responsible Business Forum on Food and Agriculture 2014, Manila. Vice Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, WWF Philippines. Senior Vice President Market Transformation, WWF International. Asia Pacific Regional Business Lead, Monsanto. President, Federation of Free Farms Cooperatives Inc. Coordinator, Sustainable Rice Platform. Chair of the Agenda Guiding group, Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock. Coral Triangle Strategy Leader, WWF. 9 Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. 13 Do Ngoc Sy. President and...

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Financial inclusion in developing countries: the alarm bells should be ringing for banks

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Financial inclusion in developing countries: the alarm bells should be ringing for banks. By Gerry Boyle, Senior Policy Adviser, Private Sector Engagement, CARE International. At a session on financial inclusion. At the European Development Days event last month, I gave a brief talk about research. Which we have developed. We will be publishing a summary of our research later this summer but our first high level findings should be ringing alarm bells for banks in developing countries. The strategic oppor...