Archive for May, 2010

28 May: Corporate Responsibility and Emerging Markets – Conference Announcement & Call for Contributions

May 28, 2010 0

The 2010 EABIS Colloquium will explore how Corporate Responsibility is understood and applied in Emerging Market contexts and cultures – by old and new multinationals – and if it is viable as a framework for tackling critical challenges ahead. The Colloquium takes place on 20-21 September 2010 hosted by St. Petersburg State University GSOM. EABIS [...]

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May 24th: Post-Election Who’s Who in the Sustainable UK Economy

May 24, 2010 0

Fiona Harvey – Financial Times; James Cameron – Climate Change Capital; and Colin Church – DECC will be discussing who in government and in business has the resources, the vision and the mandate to deliver the major changes which are needed to help the UK’s transformation to a sustainable economy.

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Renault Continues to Overstate Green Performance

May 07, 2010 0

Earlier this week Renault were exposed by the Advertising Standards Authority for proudly advertising in the UK press a 90% reduction in carbon impact of the Renault Fluence, an electric powered vehicle due to launch in 2012. The company based the calculation on an assumption that the car is drawing its energy from the French [...]

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6th May: Development What should it mean?

May 06, 2010 0

Sir Crispin Tickell 6th May 2010, 18:15-19:45, Cranfield Management Research Institute, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford.   “Development: what should it mean?” Sir Crispin Tickell has had a distinguished diplomatic career. He was Chef de Cabine to the President of the European Commission (1977-1980), British Ambassador to Mexico (1981-1983), Permanent Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration(now Department [...]

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