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Making the Pitch: Selling Sustainability from Inside Corporate America
To be successful, corporate sustainability leaders avoid the jargon of sustainability when selling it inside their companies. Rather, the path to success is developed by understanding business objectives and using broad interpersonal skills to communicate social and environmental issues in the language business leaders will understand, according to a new report that surveyed more than 30 sustainability leaders representing both publicly and privately held companies. more[...]
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Expanding Biofuels May Increase Global Poverty and Decrease Income Inequality
World BankIn 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[...]
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Great East Japan Earthquake Restoration Efforts
Mitsui & Co.This will be a date long remembered by Japan and the world at large. Since the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake that hit the Tohoku area north of Japan, Mitsui & Co. (“Mitsui”) has been conducting various activities in terms of recovery support through social contribution activities and through Mitsui’s core business. more[...]
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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[...]
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Financial Services Professionals Feel Unethical Behavior May Be A Necessary Evil
Labaton Sucharow LLP announced the results of its survey of 500 financial services professionals across the United States and United Kingdom. Conducted by Populus in June, Wall Street, Fleet Street and Main Street: Corporate Integrity at a Crossroads reveals startling data on corporate ethics, the regulatory landscape, and individuals' willingness to blow the whistle on wrongdoing. more[...]
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The UN Global Compact in Latin America – Trends and Topics
Labor standards, human rights, environmental conservation, and transparency – the core issues of the United Nations Global Compact are especially vital in the developing economies. Latin America and the Caribbean are remarkable examples. “El Pacto Mundial en América Latina y el Caribe. Memorias 2011: Informe de Gestión,” a publication of the Global Compact Regional Center, gives a detailed view on the present situation of the Global Compact in Latin America and the Caribbean. more[...]
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The Importance of Protecting the Rainforest in South America
Dennis LohmannThe Amazon basin gives South America the largest contiguous block of rainforest in the world: it extends over an area of almost seven million square kilometers and is one of the largest natural carbon sinks on the planet. Experts from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) estimate that over the last 50 years, nearly 20% of the rainforest has been destroyed through logging, natural catastrophes, and industrial exploitation. Any relaxation in forestry legislation could accelerate species extinction in Brazil even further. more[...]
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Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses in Latin America
Dr. Marcelo Saguier, School of Latin American Social SciencesEfforts to establish an agenda of corporate responsibilities with human rights in Latin America have led to modest, if not aspirational, results. However, recent developments suggest that this agenda is gradually gaining ground, as seen through its appropriation by states, companies, and civil society advocacy groups as an interpretative framework for their actions. The emerging dynamics of collaboration and conflict between such actors – within and across national borders – contribute toward defining the broad substance and scope of this emerging agenda. more[...]
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Social Responsibility Networks in the Banana Industry
Prof. Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad EAFITThere is evidence that in the last two decades, international civil society has played a dynamic role in improving environmental and working conditions in regions such as Latin America. Such improvements have occurred side by side with indications that trade liberalization and the decline of the state’s regulatory role since the 1980s and the advent of globalization in the 1990s has exacerbated inequalities, social exclusion, and triggered environmental degradation. more[...]
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Should Poverty Alleviation Be Part of Corporate Responsibility?
Dr. Lourdes Casanova, Strategy Department INSEADAfter a gap of 20 years, Rio de Janeiro will again be hosting the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20. In 1992, at the Earth Summit (Eco-92), Latin America was getting out of the so-called lost decade, following the debt crisis of the 1980s. The economy was growing slowly, inflation was high, and high levels of external debt reduced investments in infrastructure. Over the last 20 years, Brazil has become the sixth largest economy in the world. more[...]
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Maon, François
François Maon is Professor of Management at the Louvain School of Management in Belgium. more[...]
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