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Eurosif’s 2012 Procurement Report: What Investors Must Know About Sustainability Supply Chains
By: Aman Singh Post: 2012-04-12
Regulations + Policy
CO2 Emissions: Frontiers of Sky-High Protectionism?
A new controversy has emerged between the EU and several of its main trade partners since the Union decided to include in its CO2 emission-control scheme all flights to and from its territory. The EU's trade partners are up in arms about the new policy, mainly because they fear a...
B-Corporations: Solving The Ben Jerry's Problem Again
For B Corporations and for the movement being enshrined into law in several states around the country, that means making it legal to have language in a company’s operating agreement that enable it to push back against investors and shareholders who think that the duty of a company is to maximize sha...
Corn-fed Capitalism
Just as the financial industry caused a near-meltdown of the global economy in 2008, the food industry has facilitated the explosion of obesity around the world. In both cases, the links to broader problems with contemporary Western capitalism have become impossible to ignore.
Asia's Energy Security = Asia’s Security
As Asia’s rising – and increasingly rival – powers seek to sustain growth and ensure stability, energy security has moved to the forefront of Asian geopolitics. As a result, the time is ripe for fresh ideas and innovative initiatives aimed at addressing Asia’s energy-security concerns in the Middle ...
Why Development Aid is Not Enough
We must be careful not to fool ourselves into believing that the Millennium Development Goals can be achieved through development aid alone. The wider politics of poverty must be placed at the top of the international agenda, along with the three factors most critical to development: climate, confli...
The Emperor’s New Climate-Change Agreement
Dressing up failure as victory has been integral to climate-change negotiations since they started 20 years ago. The latest round of talks in Durban, South Africa in December were no exception.
Greening the European Investment Bank
The European Investment Bank can help countries worldwide to make vital progress on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions at a time when political solutions based on international agreement remain elusive. Unfortunately, the EIB’s lending priorities and energy-investment portfolio are making the problem...
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