Sustainability : Research

Human rights can be used as a threshold for minimum standards that climate change, or policies to deal with it, must not breach, says this report

If China were to follow the lead of the United States, where each person demands nearly 10 hectares of productive area, China would demand the available capacity of the entire planet! In contrast, if China can model a new development path that achieves environmental quality, social harmony, and human well-being, it will lead the way for the world as a whole.

We identified a pyramid of seven core qualities of sustainable enterprises that appear to be amenable to managerial intervention, and mapped out the specific HR-related actions to help develop these qualities.

This report offers an in-depth look at Africa’s ecological resources and the role those resources can play in advancing the region’s human development goals – or, if mismanaged, in thwarting them.

An analysis of the social responsibility reporting efforts of California’s largest corporations finds that some, like Chevron, Hewlett-Packard and Walt Disney, publicized their sustainability on their Web sites, while others, like eBay, Google and Apple, rarely mentioned the subject, if at all

California strengthened its commitment to develop a comprehensive approach to address climate change when Governor Schwartzenegger signed assembly bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions act of 2006. This Draft Plan calls for an ambitious but achievable reduction in california's carbon footprint.

The Sustainable Enterprise Report: Turning Awareness into Action, is a 144-page report containing peer-reviewed white papers, case studies, and interviews. Together, these frame the issues of today’s changing world, provide pragmatic knowledge, and make a business case for sustainability. TO view the report please use the following link. http://sustainableenterprise.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

Climate change has been called "the greatest market failure the world has ever seen," and many are looking to the MDBs to help correct it.

The A-B-C-D framework in this report breaks sustainability intelligence down into four behaviors, which make design an area of dynamic organizational learning and interest.

A growing body of evidence asserts that corporations can do well by doing good.