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Action on climate change will go further if businesses restart their calls for action to promote low-carbon prosperity from the world’s largest economy.[read more]

Amy Davidsen, US Executive Director of The Climate Group summed up one of the common concerns about the ability of the administration to complete this task. In her comments on the speech Ms. Davidsen noted that while climate change “has been put back onto the US public agenda…we must now keep it there.”[read more]

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When big multi-nationals commit to sustainability they do so recognizing the challenge as well as the massive opportunity to make a difference. The most successful companies commit fully to the strategy.[read more]

Many innovative policy tools have been created over the last two decades to tackle the environmental challenges of the contemporary world.The 'carbon market' has become one of the significant features of this new policy landscape.Yet the year started with gloomy news for carbon market enthusiasts. In early January, Bloomberg...[read more]

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Internet freedom, human rights, trust, transparency and youth programs were just a few of the issues discussed at the 2012 COMMIT!Forum this past October in New York City.[read more]

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This breathtakingly dumb digital ad campaign from Clorox Green Works runs the risk of insulting the consumers of its environmentally-friendly cleaning products while managing to ridicule millions of people who are trying to be more conscious about the social and environmental impacts of the things they buy.[read more]

Fresh from its US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) final vote in August, 2012, The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 now faces its first legal test in US Appellate Court.[read more]

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Before we are too far into the New Year we thought we should also ratchet up the game a little by sharing our two cents on what the future might hold in store for the world of CSR.[read more]

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The category description for Best Carbon Disclosure is simple: "Which report gives the best disclosure of the organization’s carbon emissions, the implications for climate change, and the mitigation measures taken? Check for policy, quantified data, targets."[read more]

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Doing good business and contributing to society and the environment are not mutually exclusive. In fact they are mutually reinforcing.[read more]

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The fundamental architecture of society is changing fast. The financial crisis and efforts to address climate change have laid bare the shortcomings of national governments and intergovernmental bodies to “fix” things.[read more]

In this age of frenzied and fleeting attention spans, even without a CSR tag, it’s becoming increasingly hard to get media to give your story some valuable real estate and when it’s a story with claims to “save the world” and “build a better tomorrow” the media simply tunes it out. So, how do you get them to pay attention?[read more]