A UK economist has devised a Global Emissions Trading Scheme to cut emissions from the carbon-hungry shipping and aviation industries.
Dr Terry Barker, of the University of Cambridge and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, said the 100% auctioning scheme would aim to reduce the two sectors’ emissions to net zero by 2052.
The Global Emissions Trading [...]
Business & Society Belgium, one of CSR Europe’s 25 national partner organisations, has recently published a practical guide on CSR reporting available in French, Dutch and English.
The guide aims to set out the latest trends in non-financial reporting in response to stakeholder expectations. It provides answers to questions such as:
What are stakeholders’ expectations with regard [...]
In the West, companies are playing an active role in the development of society after picking up on the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), yet this remains a relatively ignored concept in Russia, the Moscow News reports.
“For the Russian consumer it (CSR) has not traditionally been a factor in the decision-making process”, according [...]
Relations between the government and the UK’s leading supermarkets are in danger of deteriorating in the wake of the government’s threat to impose a tax on plastic bags.
According to reports in The Guardian newspaper, environment secretary Hilary Benn this week met with the bosses of a number of the UK’s leading supermarkets who expressed concern [...]
Fiat has become the latest firm to have its wrist slapped over a misleading green advert, after the Advertising Standards Authority ruled two adverts earlier this year gave the impression that the company’s low emission vehicles were cheaper than they are.
The press adverts for four different models of Fiat cars claimed that they would be [...]
Bosses at 100 of the world’s largest companies have today issued an unequivocal call for political leaders to deliver a “rapid and fundamental” strategy designed to cut global greenhouse gas emissions by “at least” 50 per cent by 2050.
The statement was organised by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and was endorsed by some of the [...]
The perception of electric cars as small city runabouts with dubious safety credentials is about to be challenged following the launch in the UK of an all-electric Range Rover.
The idea of providing a zero emission 4×4 is the brainchild of UK start up Liberty Electric Cars, which is investing £30m in a business model that [...]
An official government report is set to conclude that booming demand for biofuels has had a “significant” impact on global food supplies, forcing ministers into a major rethink of controversial biofuel targets.
According to reports in today’s Guardian newspaper, The Gallagher Review will warn that while some biofuels can have environmental benefits, there is need for [...]
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The Co-operative Group has seen off stiff European competition to take home one of the top accolades in this year’s European Business Awards for the Environment.
The company beat 125 national award winners from 27 EU member states to scoop the prestigious Management Award at the ceremony in Brussels during the EU’s Green Week.
It follows last [...]
Almost half of UK consumers are unwilling to pay the price premium associated with many green and ethical products, a situation that is likely to worsen as the credit crunch continues to affect consumer spending.
According to a major survey of 4,000 UK consumers from consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers, demand for green and ethical products has grown significantly, [...]
