Top Story of the Week Pressure Mounting on Companies to Get Sustainability Reporting Right
(Tuesday - March 11, 2014)
Source: Compliance Week - As sustainability reporting steadily moves into the mainstream, companies are faced with dual challenges: determining just what sustainability data will be informative for the audience they want to reach, and developing efficient... Sustainability in Focus Formula 1 Corporate Backers Push for Sustainability
(Friday - March 14, 2014)
Source: Just Means - Formula 1 is all set to embrace the mantra of sustainability for the first time in the history of the sport. It is gearing up to put in place a new class of regulations that will drive the emphasis away from rewarding brute... 8 Pieces of Advice on Sustainability Entrepreneurship
(Friday - March 14, 2014) Associated Profiles : CSRHUB
Source: TMCnet.com - (3BL Media Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SOURCE: CSRHub :>CSRHub Cofounder Cynthia Figge shared her thoughts at Founders’ Friday sponsored by Women 2.0... Business schools: 'the silent but fatal barrier to the sustainability agenda'
(Friday - March 14, 2014)
Source: The Guardian - Writing for Guardian Sustainable Business, Philippe Martin said: "A significant obstacle to sustainability becoming more embedded into the business school ethos is that a major mind-shift away from academic traditions is required... Renault, JLR, Nissan and Toyota drive car industry towards sustainability
(Friday - March 14, 2014)
Source: The Guardian - Given its heavy reliance on raw material and legislative duties that place emphasis on the reuse and recycling of end-of-life vehicles, Europe's automotive industry is perfectly positioned to accelerate the agenda around... Countries Call for a New Implementation Architecture for Sustainability
(Thursday - March 13, 2014)
Source: Natural Resources Defense Council Blog - The United Nations process to establish a set of sustainable development goals for the world by 2015 reached a turning point last week. For over a year, nations have deeply delved into specific issues areas such as... Banks Step Up Their Commitment to Sustainability (video)
(Tuesday - March 11, 2014)
Source: 3Bl MEDIA - The CSR Minute is î3BL Mediaî's daily video digest of the most relevant and timely CSR and Sustainability content. î3BL Mediaî's own correspondent reports on the latest CSR trends, topics... ESG Issues & Players More CEOs Should Tell Anti-Environment Shareholders to Buzz Off
(Wednesday - March 12, 2014)
Source: Harvard Business Review - Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said something to a shareholder that you very rarely hear: take a hike. I’m paraphrasing, but only slightly. At the company’s latest shareholder meeting, a think tank, NCPPR, pushed Apple to stop... Does corporate social responsibility pay'
(Thursday - March 13, 2014) Associated Profiles : Business for Social Responsibility
Source: Alberta Oil - Berry recognizes that his companyâs board of directors has to be involved in further developing those CSR policies if the pump, pipe and project management company, which operates mainly in Wyoming and.... The debate over nuclear power: An engineer looks at the issues
(Friday - March 14, 2014) Associated Profiles : Corporate Knights
Source: Tree Hugger - Nuclear power remains hugely controversial. Sarah Hodgdon of the Sierra Club has written in these pages about how Nuclear power is not an energy solution:" The reality is that nuclear power is prohibitively... Asset Managers, US Pension Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds Another Proposal to Repair Relations Between Boards and Investors
(Friday - March 14, 2014) Associated Profiles : The Conference Board
Source: NY Times - Increased shareholder activism, lawsuits filed by investors and continued malfeasance by financial institutions is prompting a renewed bout of introspection by some executives, board members and investors. This week, the... Massachusetts Emerges As Hub Of Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
(Friday - March 14, 2014) Associated Profiles : Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (Massachusetts), Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board Profile
Source: WBUR - There are some local concerns along those lines, too. Michael Trotsky, executive director of the Massachusetts îPension Reserves Investment Management Boardî, wrote a letter to lawmakers arguing divestment... Norway's pension fund continues to invest in coal companies destroying Indonesia's forests
(Friday - March 07, 2014) Associated Profiles : Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global (Statens pensjonsfond – Utland) , Norwegian Government Pension Fund - Norway
Source: Mongabay - Recent deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Norway's massive sovereign wealth fund is continuing to invest in coal companies that are destroying forests in Indonesia despite divesting from... Watching the Watchers 
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Hacking Team Spy Software Identified on U.S. Servers
(Saturday - March 08, 2014) Associated Profiles : Corporate Watch
- Corp Watch - Two U.S. companies Linode of New Jersey and Rackspace of Texas â have been hosting surveillance software designed ... RCS (also known as DaVinci) can then copy the Web browsing history of its targets,...
Hacking Team and the Targeting of Ethiopian Journalists
(Friday - March 07, 2014) Associated Profiles : Corporate Watch
- Ethiopian Review - Available in Ethiopia and around the world, ESATâs television and radio signals have been subjected to jamming from within Ethiopia several times in the past few years. 37 Previous research by the Citizen...
Unpublished Audit of Kaloti Reveal Conflicts Over Gold Trade
(Friday - March 07, 2014) Associated Profiles : Corporate Watch
- Corp Watch - A whistleblower who previously worked for Ernst & Young, the international auditing firm, has alleged that his bosses turned a blind eye to discoveries that Kaloti Jewellery International â one of the... 
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