Corporate responsibility

Did the invisible hand have a green thumb all along?

Environmental activists state that economic growth and a cleaner environment are fundamentally opposed and “business as usual” is an unsustainable approach that must be reformed in order to spare nature. However, this paper argues that the deepseated environmental mistrust harboured by some policy makers, activists and concerned citizens towards “business as usual” in market economies is probably mistaken.

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Business and Human Rights: Is a market-centred approach effective?: ( A. de Regil / Jus Semper Global Alliance , 2008); This paper critiques UN Special Representative for Business and Human Rights John Ruggie’s recent report on the responsibilities of business towards human rights....
Accruing benefits from mining in Africa: ( C. Breisinger;J. Thurlow / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2008); Today’s resource boom in Africa, driven by Asian economic growth, offers new opportunities for resource-rich African countries. Contrary to the experience of previous booms, however, most mining...
How to combat forced labour?: ( International Labour Organization , 2008); Forced labour and human trafficking are important issues for employers and their organisations, including not only small enterprises on the margins of the formal economy, but also large multinational ...
How to tackle corruption in oil sector?: ( F. Al-Kasim;T. Søreide;A. William / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2008); This paper offers an initial exploration of the topic of grand corruption in the regulation of oil. It focuses primarily on the roles of host governments, private oil companies and donor governments, ...
How to end child labour in cocoa production?: ( International Labor Rights Forum , 2008); This document reviews the outcome of a policy instrument drafted in 2001, the “Protocol for the Growing and Processing of Cocoa Beans and their Derivative Products,” also known as the Hark...
A guide to prepare CSR indicators: ( United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development , 2008); This guidance is a voluntary technical aid for, among others, enterprises, investors and regulators. The purpose is to assist enterprises in producing concise and comparable corporate responsibility i...
Business with the poor creates value for all: ( United Nations Development Programme , 2008); This report shows how entrepreneurs can serve the poor as clients and customers, and can also include the poor as producers, employees and business owners. It gives many examples of firms that - by...
How are Indian companies responding to climate change?: ( R. Singh;P. Dickinson / Carbon Disclosure Project , 2007); This report presents the results of the first-ever voluntary disclosure of the carbon emissions of Indian companies. It is based on the submissions of 39 Indian corporations in response to the first i...
Did the invisible hand have a green thumb all along?: ( P. Desrochers;K. Lam / Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development , 2007); This paper discusses the creation of wealth from polluting waste in market economies before the birth of the modern environmental movement. It challenges the widely held view that ecologically efficie...
How to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in oil and gas industry?: ( The Oil, Gas and Mining Sustainable Community Development Fund , 2007); Oil and natural gas companies are evaluating options for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, developing project plans, and implementing emission reduction projects either voluntarily or to comply...