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Center for Energy and Climate Solutions helps companies design and implement strategies to cut energy use and pollution. Offers case examples and procedures for change.
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The Hype About Hydrogen  Imagine a world in which you can drive your car to work each day without consuming any oil or producing any pollution. When you park your car at work or at home, you hook it up to the power grid,...
http://www.cool-companies.org/

Produced in association with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, profiling technological responses to climate change.
http://www.respondingtoclimatechange.com

The Business & Biodiversity Resource Centre provides information on how businesses can contribute to conserving biodiversity including regulations, business drivers and links to organisations developing Biodiversity Action Plans.
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The Business Biodiversity Resource Centre  The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour Kofi Annan,...
http://www.businessandbiodiversity.org/

Firm touts its own improvements in environmental performance.
http://www.kochenvironment.com/

A network of 7,000 emerging business leaders committed to using the power of business to create a better world organised in some 80 student and professional chapters worldwide.
http://www.netimpact.org/

When a UK tea firm puts some of its profits for the environment, over a million trees are planted around the world.
http://www.treesforlife.co.uk

Presents how effectively the world's largest companies use the Internet to communicate and demonstrate their commitment to the environment.
http://www.eco500.com/

Covers business and the environment and aims to provide full information on management techniques, innovative technology and environmental excellence and sustainable development.
http://www.icc-environment.org/

Sharon Beder's review of several books on recent trends in corporate activism, the resurgence of conservative agendas on environmental issues, and attempts by corporations and right wing groups to shape or confuse public knowledge of environmental and public health problems.
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/sbeder/metascience.html

Environmental certification of small and middlesized companies - a Local Agenda 21 initiative in Norway.
http://www.eco-lighthouse.com/english/index.html

Publication of the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation and the Society of Environmental Journalists providing suggestions for its members. Includes archives.
http://www.sej.org/pub/index1.htm

Provides a picture of the issues currently tackled in corporate sustainable development reports by some of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) member companies.
http://www.sdportal.org/templates/Template8/layout.asp?MenuID=36

A global platform which convenes companies together with UN agencies, labour and civil society to support fundamental principles in the areas of human rights, labour and the environment.
http://www.unglobalcompact.org/Portal/

Repository of articles and practical tools for building the business case and taking action on the environment.
http://www.greenbiz.com

The International Institute for Sustainable Development reports on its participation in the current debate surrounding the creation of an ISO (International Organization for Standardization) corporate social responsibility standard - complete with technical ISO meeting reports and background information.
http://www.iisd.org/standards/csr.asp

The Alliance is developing standards for evaluating climate, community and biodiversity impacts of land-based carbon projects which should enable stakeholders to identify terrestrial climate change mitigation projects with clear climate, biodiversity and sustainable-development benefits.
http://www.climate-standards.org

MBA programmes and faculty infusing environmental and social impact management into the business school curriculum.
http://www.beyondgreypinstripes.org

The world's largest directory of corporate non-financial reports - Information on environmental, social and associated reports by companies worldwide.
http://www.corporateregister.com

European rating agency providing independent investment analysis of corporate responsibility risks.
http://www.coreratings.com/

(Ed. Raimund Bleischwitz and Peter Hennicke, 2004. ISBN 1 84376 687 6, 256 pages). New research on applied eco-efficiency concepts throughout Europe. The aim of eco-efficiency is to achieve market-based measures of environmental protection, in order to enhance the prospects for sustainable development and achieve positive economic and ecological benefits.
https://www.e-elgar.co.uk/enviro....lasso&CDM+SerialNo=3341&-search

Features information and online tools for Canadian businesses that want to maximize technology opportunities.
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_x/engdoc/business_environ.html

Statement of purpose of multinational enterprise and corporate citizen, Novartis on setting up the Foundation for sustainable development.
http://www.novartisfoundation.co...rtis_sustainable_development.htm

Ethical Screening assists the ethical investor by supplying detailed research and analysis into corporate social responsibility issues so they may invest according to their principles.
http://www.ethicalscreening.co.uk/