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Tire industry backs new standards for better environmental labelling

First-of-their-kind Product Category Rules improve standardization, transparency of tire life-cycle environmental impact. Geneva, 2 July 2018: The Tire Industry Project (TIP) welcomes today’s launch of new Product Category Rules (PCRs) for the tire industry. Commissioned by the TIP and developed and published by internationally respected UL Environment, the PCRs ensure compliance to information and transparency standards when […]

Prestigious World Food Prize awarded to Geneva-based food system and nutrition champions David Nabarro and Lawrence Haddad

Geneva, Switzerland, 25 June 2018: The World Food Prize Committee today announced the award of the 2018 World Food Prize to Dr. David Nabarro, Strategic Director of Skills, Systems & Synergies for Sustainable Development (4SD) and Dr. Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). The Prize was founded in 1986 by Nobel […]

Insider Perspective: EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2018

The 2018 EAT Stockholm Food Forum brought together over 600 key players from around the world – from farmers to CEOs to members of Sweden’s royal family – seeking to make healthy and sustainable food systems the norm.

Why investors can no longer ignore the exposure to the real threats of being “linear”

Geneva, 6 June 2018: the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Circle Economy, PGGM, KPMG and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development launch the “Linear Risks Essay” which demonstrates the real business threats linear economic business practices are creating. These include risks associated with the use of scarce and non-renewable resources; prioritisation and sales of products produced with virgin resources; […]

Insider Perspective – Innovate 4 Climate – Frankfurt

The Paris Agreement’s entry into force during late 2016 sent the clearest possible signal that transition to the low-carbon economy is now inevitable.

Insider perspective – Corporate Sourcing of Renewables at CEM9

Over the past two days, policymakers from around the world gathered at the Ninth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM9) in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Insider Perspective: The Bonn Climate Intersessional

Over the past two weeks, climate change experts from business, government and civil society gathered in Bonn, Germany under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Insider Perspective: The Institute of Internal Auditors International Conference

This week in Dubai at the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) International Conference, over 3,000 risk management and audit professionals gathered to discuss how technology and a shifting risk landscape will change the way that they manage risk and compliance across their companies.

Better risk management: it’s about survival

Every human being is programed to be a risk manager.

Sustainability Reporting Will Create Long-Term Business and Investor Value

The average US public company today has a life span of 30 years. Annually, one in ten fails and the average five-year mortality risk is 32%.

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