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Teaching ESG, not as easy as ABC
More business schools and higher education institutions are integrating sustainable finance into their curricula. However, a lack of standardisation in a rapidly evolving sector is just one of the challenges that make it difficult to teach. We speak to some of the professors in Geneva shaking up the classroom. When Antoine Mach began teaching at…
Friday 08 October 2021
Au croisement de la finance verte et du numériqueSaturday 08 May 2021
Widespread safety issues identified at Bangladesh clothing factoriesWidespread safety issues identified at Bangladesh clothing factoriesInspectors hired by a group of Western clothing brands have found safety problems at all the Bangladesh factories they visited as part of an initiative launched after a building collapse last year killed more than 1,100 workers. The Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh is seeking remedial action after identifying more than 80,000…
Tuesday 14 October 2014
Businesses and Investors Pressing for Green PolicyBusinesses and Investors Pressing for Green PolicyHundreds of corporations, insurance companies and pension funds are calling on world leaders gathering for a U.N. summit on climate change this week to attack the problem by making it more costly for businesses and ordinary people to pollute. The idea, long advocated by policymakers, economists and environmental activists, is that the world can’t hope…
Monday 22 September 2014
Report on the World?s First Certified-Responsible Oil Development SiteEarlier this week, Equitable Origin issued the world’s first certification for socially and environmentally responsible practices by an oil production operation. The certified site, located in Colombia and operated by Pacific Rubiales Energy, achieved certification by demonstrating adherence to the EO100TM Standard for best industry practices across several categories, like Fair Labor and Working Conditions…
Friday 12 September 2014
How Gap?s Minimum Wage Pledge Is Already Paying OffGap Inc. CEO Glenn Murphy shook up the retail world this week by announcing that the retailer would voluntarily raise its corporate-wide minimum wage to $9 this year and to $10 in 2015. Explaining the decision to employees and the public on Wednesday, Murphy said such a “strategic investment” would better the lives of Gap…
Thursday 20 February 2014
L?Oréal Says It Will Phase Out The Use Of Plastic Microbeads In Its Beauty ProductsEarlier this week New York State Attorney General Eric. T Schneiderman and other lawmakers proposed a ban on plastic microbeads in personal hygiene products, saying the beads can end up polluting our waterways, and urged companies to join the fight. L?Oréal says it?s been keeping an eye on the research as well, and will now…
Thursday 13 February 2014
Exclusive: Inside McDonald?s quest for sustainable beefToday, McDonald?s announces that it will begin purchasing verified sustainable beef in 2016, the first step on a quest to purchase sustainable beef for all of its burgers worldwide. Behind McDonald?s lofty ambitions is a complex story that has been unfolding over the past several years. It involves engaging the global beef industry, from ranchers…
Tuesday 07 January 2014
Google, Microsoft top list of 2013?s most buzzed-about companies: GreenBiz article based on exclusive data provided by CovalenceIn a particularly newsworthy year for sustainability, Google, Microsoft, Tokyo Electric Power, Wal-Mart and BP led the pack in coverage related to green business issues. Such was the finding of Covalence EthicalQuote, a reputation index tracking 2,800 of the world’s largest companies on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, as well as on CSR, ethics…
Monday 23 December 2013
Nestlé first major multi-national to launch human rights white paperNestlé has become the first major multi-national company to report publicly on its human rights impacts across seven countries, and what it is doing to address them. Ahead of international Human Rights Day tomorrow, the company has published a white paper (pdf, 910Kb) using information from human rights impact assessments performed in collaboration with the…
Monday 09 December 2013
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