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Breening industrial policy

Greening industrial policy

By TOM KENYON – Industrial Development Officer in the International Financial Institutions Partnership Unit at UNIDO.

What would ‘green’ industrial policy look like? We usually think of industrial policy as a process of public-private interaction geared towards: i) raising productivity in existing sectors, and ii) supporting the emergence of new ones.

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December 7th, 2009 at 09:02 comment 0 Comments »

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Disclosing carbon emissions

Disclosing carbon emissions

By PAUL DICKINSON – founder and CEO of the Carbon Disclosure Project.

The recent financial and economic turmoil has highlighted the importance of full disclosure and risk management. Rarely have we been more aware of how failure to manage risk can have impacts beyond our worst expectations. Many lessons learnt from the challenges in our financial systems are highly relevant to the challenges we face in our climate system.

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December 7th, 2009 at 09:12 comment 0 Comments »

 

Disclosing carbon emissions

Corporate Social Responsibility: doing well… and doing good

By NATASCHA WEISERT – Industrial Development Officer, UNIDO, and MANUELA BOESENHOFER– CSR Consultant, UNIDO.

The emergence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) over the past decade quickly gave rise to the expectation that private business would tackle some of the world’s most pressing economic, social and environmental problems.

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December 7th, 2009 at 09:28 comment 1 Comment »