| 12/12/2010 |
CEBDS puts social inclusion on the business agenda in Brazil
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
In late November, the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development organized a conference in Salvador de Bahia that highlighted the role that business can play in developing sustainable solutions toward addressing the challenges of poverty and social inequality in the country. VIEW>
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| 12/7/2010 |
Business warns governments of the risk of inaction
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Cancún, December 7, 2010 - There is huge support in the business community for governments' efforts to reduce GHG emissions, but the lack of progress toward a global framework and momentum in the negotiations poses a serious risk to that continuing interest and support. The global business community agreed it must scale up its efforts to find solutions to climate change, regardless of the outcome at the UN climate change talks in Cancun, and warned government officials that the lack of progr... VIEW>
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| 12/5/2010 |
Innovating for Green Growth not happening fast enough
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Geneva, December 6, 2010 - Addressing climate change will create a need for rapid deployment of new, low-carbon, clean technologies at a scale of production the world has rarely, if ever, seen before. But, according to a new report released by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), global low-carbon technologies are not moving at the rate of demand. The report offers policy suggestions to governments on how to leverage RD&D to drive private sector investments. VIEW>
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| 12/1/2010 |
Sustainable and Inclusive Innovation - Strategies for Tomorrow's World
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
How does one really innovate? What are the strategies required to make innovation work? How does one ensure that innovation as an end as well as a process is both sustainable and inclusive? These are some of the questions addressed in this report by the CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development, a Regional Network partner of the WBCSD in India. The report provides an insight into how innovations in products, services and processes are creating new businesses and industry struc... VIEW>
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| 11/24/2010 |
Indian companies innovate products poor people can afford
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Sachin Joshi, Deputy Director of the CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development in India, provides an insight into how Indian companies' innovations in products, services and processes are creating new businesses and industry structures. VIEW>
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