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Business Assurance Thought of the Day - Guardian Climate Change Summit Notes

– 16th Jun 2009 by Alex Briggs

Here is a collection of notes and thoughts from Guardian Climate Change Summit 2009 in London yesterday, most of which were posted yesterday on our www.twitter.com/lrqa page.

First session thoughts and notes
Quote from Gavin Neath, Senior VP Unilever “Organisations need to learn humility.For the past 30 years, environmental groups were right, businesses were wrong.”
Mars looking to work with PAS 2050 the carbon Footprinting for products, according to Fiona Dawson, Managing Director, Mars, UK

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World’s best CSR companies? Think again

– 29th Oct 2008 by Alex Briggs

This Salter-Baxter report on the world’s leading CSR reporting companies has led to increasing debate. With companies such as British-American Tobacco, Nestle and Shell at the top of the rankings, controversy is the order of the day.

Sir Jonathon Porritt, the chairman of the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, and founder of Forum for the Future, led the attack on the report,

When any company is systematically mispricing risks and systematically misallocating capital it makes no sense to talk about corporate responsibility. We’re going to have to face the fact some of the measures used to judge relative CSR performance are useless. They don’t help shareholders. They don’t help citizens. They don’t help the companies themselves.

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Tesco’s Carbon Labelling Podcast

– 8th Sep 2008

In this episode, we hear from Katherine Symonds, Tesco’s Sustainability Manager, about Tesco’s carbon labelling pilot project.

Tesco defends carbon label scheme

– 6th Jul 2008

As critics accuse carbon labels of confusing customers, supermarket giant insists initiative has proved “encouraging” and cheaper than expected, reports James Murray, BusinessGreen.

Shoppers urge retailers to ditch non-green products

– 6th Jul 2008

More than three quarters of consumers want higher environmental product standards from government

Check-out Carbon report leads to Carbon Labelling debate

– 3rd Jul 2008 by Alex Briggs

Blog posts on events are supposed to be written immediately following the event or not at all. I am going to break that rule and write about a great Carbon Labelling event that took place on Monday, June 30th at the Lloyd’s Register HQ in London.
Forum for the Future, the sustainability charity in the UK, [...]

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Carbon Labelling Report Podcast

– 3rd Jul 2008

This special edition podcast was recorded at the launch of a new report on carbon labelling, Check-out Carbon.

Carbon labelling – crunch time

– 2nd Jul 2008

Has the credit crunch begun to affect what you put in your shopping basket? How about the Carbon crunch?

Peter Madden talks about Carbon Labelling

– 30th Jun 2008

Peter Madden, CEO of Forum for the Future, talks about recent Carbon Labeling research conducted by Forum for the Future and Lloyd’s Register.

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