Mois : août 2008

Assisting business towards carbon neutrality

Business is at the forefront of efforts to reduce climate change. Without the support of business, efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will at best be only partially successful and not nearly enough to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. Most business leaders inherently know this and realise that climate change is a serious challenge – maybe the most serious challenge human societies collectively face today … (full text ‘shrink your carbon foot print’).

Homepage;
News;
Events;
The business case;
Climate leaders;
Newsletter;
Address: Climate Action, Henley Media Group, Trans World House, 100 City Road, London, EC1Y 2BP, United Kingdom;
Contact.

About: The Sustainable Development division of Henley Media Group has been providing senior decision makers in the public, private and intergovernmental sectors with sustainable development and corporate social responsibility reference resources since 1998.

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Linked with Sumaiya Khair – Bangladesch.

Objectives:

• To increase understanding of the potential contribution of migration for pro poor growth and poverty reduction in Asia.
• To be the premier resource centre on migration, refugee and displacement issues in South Asia.
• Initiate regional collaborative research to understand the links between migration and poverty reduction.
• To provide training and disseminate and promote the idea among young academics, professionals, grassroots leaders, NGO activists that orderly and managed migration can reduce poverty and benefit receiving and sending regions and that migration is an important livelihood strategy to move out of poverty.
• Establish network with academics and activists of South Asia on issues of migration for policy advocacy at national and regional levels.

… (About 1/2).

Homepage, Links and News;
Research;
Training;
Projects;
Publications;
Advocacy;
Events;
YRF Young Research Forum;
Newsletters;
Address: RMMRU, Sattar Bhaban (4th Floor), 3/3-E, Bijoynagar, Dhaka–1000. Bangladesh;
Contact.

About RMMRU 2/2: The Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), an affiliate of the University of Dhaka, has been functioning as a research, training, and policy advocacy institution since 1996.

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Essay: Ownership and sustainability – Are listed companies more responsible? Owners used to be stewards of their company’s future, but this idea has faded in modern publicly-listed companies. Mark Goyder asks how dispersed share-ownership might affect corporate efforts to be responsible … // … But does this historic view of ownership as stewardship still apply in the age of global capital flows, instant trading and complex derivatives? … (full text).

5 Upcoming Ethical Corporation conferences & events (October and November 2008): on Homepage; (with many other links on the Homepage, as: more Reports, log-in, Meet Our Columnists, … and many items and regions);
CSR jobs;
Ethical Report 2008 … ;
Editorials;
Blog;
Politics;
Debate.

One of the debates: project finance – The Equator Principles – Is it a happy fifth birthday for the Equator Principles?

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the network for progress … a network of people, nonprofits, and foundations, creating change together

Glowfish is the fastest growing network of people, organizations, and ideas dedicated to progress. Like you, everyone and everything here believes in bettering the human condition, whether through sharing the arts or the provision of essential needs, whether on this continent or another, whether in our free time or as our livelihood. Glowfish is dedicated to creating connections and the sharing of ideas that create action toward bettering humanity. Glowfish is completely free and has something for everyone.
What’s Glowfish got for you? For Nonprofits? For Foundations? … (Homepage).

Most pages are reached by links from the homepage (Recent Jobs and Volunteer Postings, Search Glowfish, User Login, Featured New Organizations, Recent Topics, New GlowFishers, Featured Groups, Recent Strategy Papers, Recent Resources);

Contact: For now, you can contact us by e-mail, or by messaging our organization on the site itself.

About Glowfish: Glowfish is a network for progress.

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Linked with Janusz Korczak alias Henryk Goldszmit – Poland (1877 – 1942);

The Swedish Korczak Association was founded in 1971 by Michal Wroblewski, a former co-worker of Korczak’s in Poland. The Association was formally registered in 1988 and throughout its existence it has maintained an affiliation with the Stockholm Teacher’s College … (about 1/2).

Convention on the Rights of the Child, Adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 November 1989;
dedication;
books (diff. languages);
photos;
the Chronicle;
the cybrary of the holocaust;
a german site;
a teacher’s guide to the holocaust;
Feedback e-mail.

About 2/2: The purpose of the Association is to disseminate information on Janusz Korczak and his lifework.

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