May 3, 2012
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Environmental Management Newsletter May 3, 2012 |
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How are global companies responding to sustainability?
UK and continental European companies are outstripping their US and Asian counterparts, according to a EIRIS` latest report. The German sportswear manufacturer Puma is named a global leader in EIRIS` Sustainability Ratings report with British drugs company GlaxoSmithKline and the Dutch electronics company Philips also scoring highly. A fifth of UK companies score A (the highest of five grades) based on their sustainability performance, followed by 12 per cent of mainland European ones. But only 2 per cent of US companies and 1 per cent of Asian ones make the top grade in EIRIS` Global Sustainability ... | ||
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Beyond Rhetoric at Rio+20 with the “Compendium of Commitments”
As world leaders prepare to converge on Rio in June for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), civil society groups around the world are making demands of their leaders. In India, a broad coalition of environment and development NGOs are decrying state-sanctioned violence during hearings for major projects. In Colombia, civil society groups are calling for training of judges who often don’t understand environmental law. These are just a few of the many governance demands made by NGOs in more than 30 countries associated with the Access Initiative (TAI). But, how will leaders ... | ||
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