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72% of Americans want changes to produce safety activities

72% of Americans want the federal government to establish new safety standards for the growing, harvesting, processing and distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables even if they increase costs, according to a national survey commissioned by the Produce Safety Project (PSP).
“Consumers don’t want the produce section of their grocery stores to be casinos where they roll the dice on their family’s health and safety,” said Jim O’Hara, PSP director.

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PAS 2050 Specification

This Publicly Available Specification (PAS) has been prepared by BSI to specify requirements for assessing the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) of goods and services. The development of this PAS was co-sponsored by the Carbon Trust and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
What is PAS 2050?
PAS 2050 provides a consistent method […]

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PAS 2050 - Code of Good Practice for product GHG emissions and reduction claims

PAS 2050 - Code of Good Practice for product GHG emissions and reduction claims The Code of Good Practice for product greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduction claims has been developed by the Carbon Trust and Energy Saving Trust to promote the reduction of product life cycle GHG emissions.

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Guide to PAS 2050 - How to assess the carbon footprint of goods and services

Guide to PAS 2050 - How to assess the carbon footprint of goods and services While PAS 2050 provides a standard method for assessing a product carbon footprint, this guide, ‘Guide to PAS 2050′, will help businesses to implement the standard by offering specific and practical guidance.

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Looking for innovative CSR activities?

CSR Europe’s CSR solutions database is a unique collection of over 600 best practice examples in corporate social responsibility.

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Business Continuity Experts talk about the role of BC

Cheryl Vallender at www.disaster-resource.com has gotten a group of the world’s leading Business Continuity experts together to answer the question:

Where does Business Continuity Planning Belong in an Organization?

Cheryl’s article takes us right back to the beginning of Business Continuity through to taking a look at the current trends in global organisations.

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Restoring Trust in CSR

This video interview with Alan Knight offers insight into the new AA1000AS standard. The standard will be launched in London on the 24th of October.

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Managing global supply chains: McKinsey Global Survey Results

A McKinsey Quarterly survey finds that supply chain risk is rising sharply. However, supply chain management isn’t keeping pace: most respondents say that their companies aren’t meeting strategic goals for it, and relatively few have acted on the global trends with the most influence over supply chains.

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McKinsey Supply Chain Risk Document

managing-global-supply-chains.pdfmanaging-global-supply-chains.pdf This is the PDF of the McKinsey survey on the growing importance of Supply Chain Risk.

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When can we believe a CSR report? New report sheds light on

A new report reveals previously unpublished information about a young but burgeoning
multi-million pound global industry operating at the heart of corporate trust: CSR report
assurance.
Assure View - The CSR Assurance Statement Report is the first report to offer an independent,
comprehensive overview of the field. The report outlines who uses assurance, who provides
assurance and what methods are […]

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Coca-Cola Enterprises releases 3rd CRS Report

Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE:CCE), the world’s largest marketer, distributor, and producer of Coca-Cola products, has published its third company-wide Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) Report, Shape Tomorrow…Today.

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Recent study of environmental policies shows that success means treating people as active partners

A recent study of such environmental policies shows they are more likely to be successful if people are treated as active partners in the process of change and not as passive subjects.

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The Six Sins of Greenwashing

These terms make it meaningful for companies disclosing any data and information rather than the scientific principles all the schemes use e.g. materiality, faithfulness, etc.

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Eye for Transport Report Highlights Green Supply Chain Issues

The attached report is the result of Eye For Transport’s recent survey of Supply Chain experts, with both current and future trends being evaluated.

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Search 17477 CSR reports across 4452 companies

Search 17477 CSR reports across 4452 companies Sign up to the Corporateregsiter.com website and search 17477 CSR reports across 4452 companies.

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WRAP Food Waste Report

In the UK we throw away 6.7 million tonnes of food every year, roughly a third of everything we buy.
This ground-breaking report was launched on 8 May 2008.
It provides, for the first time, an objective assessment of the amounts and types of food we buy but don’t eat.
It is a call to action for government, retailers, food manufacturers, NGOs and all of us, in our role as consumers, to reduce the food we waste.

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Retail Supply Chain Market Report

This report, commissioned by Unipart Logistics, aims to deepen the understanding of consumer supply chain drivers, logistics models and improvement initiatives.

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Check-out carbon: the role of carbon labelling in delivering a low-carbon shopping basket

Check-out Carbon, published by sustainable development charity Forum for the Future, also reveals that 77 per cent of consumers want the government to set higher environmental product standards.

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Forum for the Future’s new report: Check out Carbon

Forum for the Future’s new report, sponsored by Lloyd’s Register, entitled Check-out Carbon, released.

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Vodafone’s ‘One Strategy’ CR 2008 report launched

Can business strategy really be aligned with corporate responsibility strategy? This critical question is the theme of Vodafone’s 2008 CR Review

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Virgin Media launch first CR Report

The report explains how Virgin Media has started its journey towards becoming a more responsible business.

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ISO 9001 is not Rocket Science - Dispelling the “Myths” of ISO 9001

This is a four piece article written by Bretta Kelly, President CIS WWSG, that describes a common sense approach of how to implement or revise an ISO 9001:2000 management system.

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Creating Shared Value - Nestle’s approach to Corporate Social Responsibility

Download the recent Nestle ‘Creating Shared Value’ report and see the 7 minute film which helps communicate their fresh approach to CSR.

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CEOs plan to increase CSR investments by 25 percent

To better understand and reach the rapidly growing number of socially-minded customers, CEOs plan to increase their CSR investments by 25 percent over the next three years, the largest percentage increase of any trend identified in the just-released IBM Global CEO Study, the largest study of chief executives ever conducted.

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Latest Survey Indicates Americans want proof of green claims

90% of Americans say that companies need to prove their green claims, 80% say they should have independent third-party certification of those claims.

This Environmental Leader article highlights the Green Gap Survey from Cone and The Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship surveyed US consumers on a range of topics regarding environmental products and the companies selling them.

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CSR Reporting in China

A website looks at the issues of Corporate Social Responsibility and how they are being delivered in China.

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The Corporate ecosystem services review

This set of guidelines, accompanied by case studies from five businesses, explains the steps a business should take to identify what ecosystems it depends on and the risks and opportunities related to changes in those ecosystems.

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Trends in consumer actions to protect the environment

In the current wave of the environmental movement, there is quite a bit of talk. But research from Natural Marketing Institute shows that there is also quite a bit of action.

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New report helps make sense of the voluntary carbon offset market

The Stockholm Environment announces the release of a comprehensive
new report on the voluntary carbon offset market.

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State of Green Business 2008 - Report

It introduces the GreenBiz Index, a set of 20 indicators of progress, tracking the resource use, emissions, and business practices of U.S. companies: carbon, materials, energy, and toxics intensity, clean-tech investments, e-waste recovery, paper use, employee commuting, and more.

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Case Study: Using a risk assessment model in a quality management system

“In today’s Quality Management systems, the ability to control and correct processes is key to maintaining a high level of compliance within an organization”, says pharmaceuticalonline.com.

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How do Global FT500 calculate & verify their GHG emissions?

Ethical Corporation have just launched a business intelligence report on how the Global FT500 are calculating and verifying their greenhouse gas emissions.

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European Union Air policies

A clean air supply is essential to our own health and that of the environment. The EC website provides full details about the EU Air policies currently in place.

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New approach standardisation in Europe

This Web site, www.newapproach.org has been realised to increase the visibility of New Approach Standardisation in Europe and to provide information on the standardisation process.

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WWF Luxury Brand Research

The WWF has sponsored some interesting research into the Social, Economic and Governance performance of the world’s leading luxury brands.

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‘Climate Change 2007′ - The Synthesis Report is released

Climate Change 2007”, has now been completed. Its final part, “The Synthesis Report” was released in Valencia, Spain, on 17 November 2007. Earlier this year, the three IPCC Working Groups contributions to the AR4 were released.

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Transposition of the Asylum Procedures Directive

The Asylum Procedures Directive (Council Directive 2005/85/EC of 1 December 2005, on minimum standards on procedures in Member States for granting and withdrawing refugee status) is one of the four building blocks of the first stage of the Common European Asylum System.

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TAPA Supply Chain Standard

The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) is an association of security professionals and related business partners from various high technology manufacturing and transportation companies who have come together for the purpose of addressing the emerging security threats that are common to the relevant industries. The TAPA EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) brochure contains relevant information on the organisation, the TAPA FSR Standard and a list of the members and associate members.

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CBI Climate Change Report, Nov 2007

CBI Climate Change Report, including the news that 2020 goals likely to be missed, but 2050 goals still attainable

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Understanding the Carbon Market

Understanding the Carbon Market - A comprehensive overview of both the regulated and voluntary markets, including a full list of all relevant standards.

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VCS the global bench mark standard for voluntary emission reductions

CarbonFootprint talks about how the VCS provides a credible but simple set of criteria that will provide integrity to the voluntary carbon market.

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VCS 2007 Resources

From this site you can download the complete VCS 2007 documentation, including the standard specification and Project Description templates.

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Changes in supply chain collaboration, management and security

Changes in supply chain collaboration, management and security The @ Supply Chain Management blog points to a new supply chain report, which presents the results of comprehensive longitudinal research into supply chain management and supply chain security.

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Is local food safer?

Is local food safer? A new report from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University suggests that US consumers believe that local food is safer than that from further afield.

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BBC Climate Change Page

BBC Climate Change resources page

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Supply chain traceability: ISO 22005:2007

Supply chain traceability: ISO 22005:2007 ISO 22005:2007, published in the summer of 2007, sets out the requirements for standardised food and feed traceability — from grower to animals, and from farmers to shop shelves.

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The YouTube! ISO14001 video

For those of you who haven’t seen it, ISO has put a promotional video on YouTube! The video is an overview of the environmental management standard, ISO 14001, and has over 5,400 downloads so far!
Further, there are supply chain videos on YouTube!, including this promotional video from Cisco and Ford, as well as Food Safety videos, including this one on Food Safety and China.

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Technical Committee Guide to ISO 22000

September 2007 GFSI Technical Committee Position Paper on ISO 22000

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Food Legislation

Links to food legislation from around the world.

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What Assures Consumers?

What Assures Consumers? New global research sponsored by Lloyd’s Register, M&S and the Co-op shows that consumers want better independent, impartial assurance of corporations’ environmental claims.

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Growers and Grocers

The Growers and Grocers is part of The Well Fed Network which is  a compilation of blogs focused on informed, high quality, food and wine-based content.

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Environmental Legislation

Links to environmental legislation from around the world.

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EU Emissions Trading Scheme

EU Emissions Trading Scheme All you need to know about the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme, including a guide to achieving compliance.

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Setting the Agenda for Change

Setting the Agenda for Change This research, based on 350 depth interviews with international board directors and senior managers with overall responsibility for management systems, shows conclusively that senior management believes in the power of management systems.

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Climate Change

The Climate Change section is your one stop shop for news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and other climate change resources.

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Supply Chain

The Supply Chain Assurance section covers news, blogs, podcasts, standards, events and resources on supply chain issues.

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Food

The Food section focuses on issues of food safety and the food supply chain, and provides news, blog posts, podcasts, resources, standards and events.

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CSR

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) section focuses on current CSR issues which face all companies all over the world. This information is provided to you via six sections: news, blog posts, podcasts, resources, standards and events.

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Product Conformity

The Product Conformity section contains news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and resources covering Product Conformity and other European Union related issues.

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Business Continuity

The Carbon Labelling section was launched in sync with the Check-out Carbon report, June 2008. The section contains information on news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and other carbon labelling resources.

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