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Hewlett-Packard Co. has moved up from its number five ranking in 2009 to top the 2010 CRO magazine’s annual list of America’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens. Intel Corp. and General Mills Inc. followed up in second and third place, respectively.
Corporate Responsibility magazine’s ranking is based on over 360 points of data in seven responsibility [...]
The Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) has just published the “Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2009.” This annual publication is one of the leading sources of statistical information on the region and contains social, economic and environmental data.
The report is divided into four sections, which focus on:
-Demographic and social aspects, with [...]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) have launched the study “Improving Energy Security and Reducing Carbon Intensity in Asia and the Pacific.” The report discusses the real and present challenges in improving energy security and reducing carbon intensity in the region. The Asia and Pacific need expanding supplies of [...]
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has just launched the report, “The Global State of Sustainable Insurance: Understanding and Integrating Environmental, Social and Governance Factors in Insurance”. The study summarizes the key findings of the UNEP Finance Initiative global survey conducted this year which captured the views of respondents from 60 territories worldwide with over [...]
CH2M Hill Ltd. leads the list of the Engineering News-Record’s (ENR’s) Top 200 Environmental Firms for the third year in a row. ENR’s Top 200 Environmental Firms ranking provides an annual look at a market that now exceeds $30 billion in annual revenue.
The rankings are based on revenue firms’ reports for work performed in market [...]
Harvard Business Publishing has just released a special report, “Green Cost-Cutting: 5 Ways to Get Lean Now,” from Andrew Winston’s forthcoming book, Green Recovery (Harvard Business Press; August 17, 2009). Andrew Winston, co-author of the bestseller Green to Gold, will be publishing a road map for managers on how to use the green lens to [...]
CRO (Corporate Responsibility Officer) Magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens List is designed to recognize firms that excel at serving a variety of stakeholders with excellence and integrity. It ranks firms based on how well they perform in seven different categories: the environment, climate change, human rights, philanthropy, employee relations, finance and governance.
More information on the [...]
Best Practice in Green IT: Implementing Green IT in the enterprise and its cost benefits is a new report published by Business Insights that examines the impact that business and IT is having on the environment, and why this is becoming a board-level issue. It also provides a guide to how organisations can cut their [...]
The European Environment Agency has just published an overview of modeling tools currently available to simulate future environmental change at a European scale. The report presents a general characterisation of environmental models based on the themes covered, the geographical coverage and the analytical structure of the respective models. The Technical report No 11/2008 is available [...]
