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IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
implementing (‘05) current technology renders it possible to reduce emissions to pre 2000 levels while making a profit on at least 50 per cent of implemented technologies – and this achievable by 2010 with ‘zero net costs’.
Says who? The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – almost five years ago.
Yet developed nations, specifically the US, emitting 19 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per capita annually, continue subsidising oil giants to the tune of US$300 billion, all the while claiming that significant caps cannot be realised. http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/60017
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD)
Yet ‘between a third and two-thirds’ of CDM projects do not represent actual reductions, according to the head of Stanford University’s Sustainable Development programme. (Like many other institutions of influence, Stanford was on the receiving end of US$225 million in oil-money from Exxon-Mobil for Global Climate and Energy project.) Instead, offsets facilitate the process of corporate gaming, simultaneously utilising Africa’s ‘underdeveloped’ status as yet another exploitable resource. http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/60017
CDM: CDM-Home
Thanks to ‘offsets’ that grant industrial polluters a ‘get-out-of-jail-free card through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), polluters circumvent caps by bankrolling ‘green-wrapped’ business-as-usual projects in ‘poor countries’. http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/60017
Mallen Baker's Blog - CSR is dead - part 412
If the author's comments are correct, then CSR should have been a corporate responsibility from day one. However, corporations are responding primarily to external pressure.
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"CRS" it said - always a giveaway when they can't even spell CSR - "and corporate survival in a time of economic calamity are not natural allies. If survival means stoking up the blast furnace and letting pollutant clouds cover the world, the world is going to lose".
Right. I see. That makes perfect sense. If times are tough, let's be inefficient and generate pollution. If times are tough, let's alienate the local communities where our workforce live. And if we're motivated by survival, let's destroy the environmental life support systems on which all life depends. Glad you explained that to me.
Ethical Corporation
Ethical Corporation is an independent media firm, launched in 2001 to encourage debate and discussion on responsible business. Ethical Corporation publishes a 60-page print magazine ten times a year, a daily website, and hosts business ethics conferences all over the world. EC also publishes the new online magazine www.ClimateChangeCorp.com, launched in February 2007, and has a research arm, The Ethical Corporation Institute, created in 2006, which sells reports and produces research into emerging areas related to responsible business.
GlobalResearch.ca - Centre for Research on Globalization
The Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) is an independent research & media group of writers, scholars, journalists & activists. The CRG is based in Montreal. It is a registered non profit organization in the province of Quebec, Canada.
Halifax Initiative
Our mission is to fundamentally transform the international financial system, and its institutions, namely the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and Export Credit Agencies. By doing so, we hope to achieve poverty eradication, environmental sustainability and the full realization of human rights.
Unilever makes sustainable palm oil pledge - Telegraph
Greenpeace singled out Unilever as a target for demonstrations recently because, it alleged, the company's suppliers were destroying orang-utan habitats and clearing Indonesia's peatland rainforests to plant palms.
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