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Corporations fight global poverty as part of business strategy
Eradicating poverty is the first UN Millennium Development Goal and an increasingly pressing global issue. Halving the amount of people living in extreme poverty by 2015 (in relation to 1990) is a daunting challenge and needs the collaboration and effort of many different entities – business corporations included.
Several CSR Europe members have incorporated poverty eradication in their CSR endeavours, targeting different aspects of the issue and producing vital opportunities for people living in poverty around the world.
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http://www.csreurope.org/news.php?type=&action=show_news&news_id=2872
Summit Shows Varying Approaches to Green Manufacturing
“Most people get on with green manufacturing really rather badly. It’s a whole new type of business strategy,” said Stephen Stokes, vice president of climate change and business for AMR Research, at the start of the Green Manufacturing Summit’s Thursday session.
The event highlighted examples from business and government of how to bring sustainability to providing products and services.
Stokes touched on a number of concepts businesses have embraced in their different journeys towards sustainability, but ultimately said what is most needed – frameworks, metrics, benchmarking and tools for developing fact-based sustainability – is still missing. Read more
Source: Green Biz
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