multinational companies

Reasons to be both hugely disappointed and very excited

By Making It on 27 August, 2012

Paul Hohnen on ‘greenwash’, sustainable development, and what governments and the UN need to do to save the planet.

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged business, China, climate change, energy, energy efficiency, environment, environmental sustainability, free market, Global Reporting Initiative, green economy, green energy, green industry, green innovation, green technology, greenhouse gas, greenwash, Industrial Development, international agreement, Making It magazine, multinational companies, natural resources, oil, Paul Hohnen, pollution, resources, rio+20, solar power, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable business practices, sustainable development, sustainable economic growth, sustainable energy, Sustainable Energy for All, sustainable future, sustainable growth, sustainable production, Sustainablity strategies, technology, UN Private Sector Focal Points, UNIDO, United Nations, wind energy, wind power

Packaging: key to more food and economic development

By Making It on 8 July, 2011

Kenneth Marsh points out how better packaging can help add value and preserve food and pharmaceuticals in developing countries

Posted in Policy Brief | Tagged agribusiness, agricultural production, business, company, consultant, cultural factors, developed countries, developing countries, distribution, Economic Development, FAO, farm, food, Global, globalization, grain, hunger, innovation, issue 6, Kenneth Marsh, law, legal, legality, loss, machinery, Making It, market, material, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, multinational companies, packaging, pharmaceutical, plastic, poor storage, private sector, production rate, public sector, shipping, Sri Lanka, sustainability, sustainable production, technology, transport, transportation, UN, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, UNIDO, United Nations, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United States, US, value, value-added packaged food

The impact of business on the MDGs

By Making It on 4 November, 2010

With the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) only five years away, questions have been raised as to the effectiveness of the private sector in influencing progress towards their achievement. A new study assesses the contributions of 20 well-known multinational companies towards influencing the MDGs.

Posted in Extra! | Tagged 2010, beneficiary, business, Business Impact Report, corporations, CSR, deadline, development, economy, human, Industrial Development, market, MDG, Millennium Development Goals, multinational companies, private sector, responsibility

Old computers – new business

By Making It on 7 December, 2009

Microsoft’s SEAN NICHOLSON reviews the commercial possibilities presented by e-waste.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, components, computers, corporations, development, disassembly, e-waste, EU, European Union, global manager of emerging solutions, global waste, government, Issue 1, it companies, job satisfaction, microsoft, multinational companies, non-profit organizations, pc-reuse, pcs, policy, Recycling, refurbished pcs, sean nicholson, seattle, social programmes, solving the e-waste problem, step, UK, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, US, waste

multinational companies

Reasons to be both hugely disappointed and very excited

Packaging: key to more food and economic development

The impact of business on the MDGs

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