Why the World Needs More Corporate Transparency
- Business, Commentary, Featured, News, Policy, Sustainable Development
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corporate social responsibility, Featured, GRI, sustainable development, sustainable development goals, transparency
- May 30, 2016
There are powerful social, environmental and economic implications associated with transparency. Corporations are not the only ones that should be concerned about transparency; governments, employees, consumers and the whole of civil society all have a stake. Transparency is about open access to an organization’s activities and this has implications for everything from climate change to the bottom line. cenforce Starbuck’s CEO Howard Schultz effectively communicated …
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The Future of Sustainable Development : A Citizen Journalism Project
- Activism, Community, Environmental Justice, Government, Sustainable Development
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Featured, global reporting initiative, GRI, SDG, sustainable development, sustainable development goals
- April 13, 2016
Beacon is a crowdfunding platform for journalists. For more than two years Beacon has supported hundreds of worthwhile projects, adding a perspective to journalism free from the internet echo-chamber or vagaries of the advertising business model (here’s one we recommend and support). We’ve just launched our own campaign on Beacon to help fund a series of articles and interviews exploring the future of …
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Building on the Sustainable Development Goals
2015 was arguably a banner year for sustainable development. With the signing of the Paris Agreement at COP21 and adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations in September, the path is laid out for how we might develop sustainable and equitable economies across the globe. Of course, that’s easier said that done. But tools and methods …
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