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Has the environment changed as a business issue?
Business in the Environment's tenth birthday is an opportunity to look back and see how 'the environment' has changed as a business issue. Many companies have achieved significant improvements in their internal 'eco-efficiency.
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Corporate environmental
performance
The director of the BITC's environment index explains why measuring performance is crucial in the drive to manage business impact on the environment.
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S.E.E. the power of
business
Major US companies are backing a new initiative asking if business has the power to make a difference. Critics pan the 'flexible' approach to metrics, but the focus on measuring real social impacts is a positive development.
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Net gains: producer
responsibilities in a digital world
Today's digital society of ebanking and mobile phones finds consumers more empowered than ever before. Does this reduce businesses' responsibility for the impact of their products? Not if the sustainable potential of these new technologies is ever going to be recognised, Vidhya Alakeson argues.
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The environment is dead…
Civil society's organisations and institutions are likely to undergo an upheaval as we scale up responses to environmental issues like climate change. This should be seen as an opportunity, argues John Elkington.
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Environmental management
Environmental management activities are multiplying across the private sector as climate change rises on the world's agenda. Toby Kent examines some innovative programmes.
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Environment: climate
change
Companies have done much to reduce their direct emissions in recent years. The climate change lobby shows no signs of slowing down, however, as attention now focuses on their indirect emissions.
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Comment: environment:
global warming
Companies have done much to reduce their direct emissions in recent years. The climate change lobby shows no signs of slowing down, however, as attention now focuses on their indirect emissions.
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Rio Tinto: developing and
embedding corporate principles
Enron, CSR sceptics won't be slow to tell you, had an impressive set of business principles - and much good it did them. Briefing examines the strategy of Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining companies, to ensure that its business principles genuinely set the tone for the way it works.
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