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Extreme weather events drive climate change up boardroom agenda in 2012

Following increasing incidents of extreme weather events which disrupted business operations and supply chains around the world, climate change has climbed the boardroom agenda, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Global 500 Climate Change report released today. With the hottest US summer on record, fires in Russia and flooding in the UK, Japan and Thailand, among other events, 81% of reporting companies now identify physical risk from climate change, with 37% perceiving these risks as a real and present danger, up from 10% in 2010. more[...] login_required

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Supporting the Development of Youth Entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom

Royal Bank of Scotland Group

The RBS Group has been a signatory of the UN Global Compact since 2003, and in 2010 our Head of Sustainability became Chair of the UK Network; working to promote the Global Compact’s Ten Principles among UK industries and the wider UNGC community. We support the Compact as we believe that the resources available to businesses can be leveraged to create sustainable development and a more sustainable economy – on both a local and global scale. more[...] login_required

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Crane, Andrew

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The Prohibition of Amnesties by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Prof. Christina Binder, University of Vienna

The Inter‐American Court of Human Rights has proven a particularly active defender of human rights in Latin America. The Court has developed an innovative and creative jurisprudence with respect to all kinds of human rights violations, including forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, violations of indigenous peoples’ rights or those of undocumented migrants. Legal scholars have praised the Inter‐American Court for its effective protection of human rights and even the International Court of Justice has drawn on the judgments of the Inter‐American Court. more[...] login_required

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Binder, Christina

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Gonzalez, Carmen G.

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“Actions of Life” – Actions of Responsibility for Society

Yiannis Roundos, INTERAMERICAN
Interamerican Group

Contributing to society with social responsibility initiatives and actions constitutes a core element of INTERAMERICAN’s mission. For this reason, the company invests significant amounts of time into various social actions, above and beyond the responsible practices that it has integrated into activities of its business operations. From its inception until today, it has continually focused on the people and society in general. more[...] login_required

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Gilbert, Dirk Ulrich

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Expanding Biofuels May Increase Global Poverty and Decrease Income Inequality

World Bank

In a new working paper, Caesar B. Cororaton and Govinda R. Timilsina analyze the impact of large-scale expansion of biofuels on global income distribution and poverty. A global computable general equilibrium model is used to simulate the effects of the expansion of biofuels on resource allocation, commodity prices, factor prices, and household income. A second model based on worldwide household surveys uses these results to calculate the impacts on poverty and global income inequality. more[...] login_required

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Mozambique Irrigation Project to help achieve UN MDGs

Mitsui & Co.

In cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Mitsui is donating a solar power-operated pumping facility for irrigation water to a local farming community in Mozambique, Africa. In 2010, a partnership agreement to build an irrigation system was signed between Mitsui and UNDP, with the project currently at the construction phase. more[...] login_required

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