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Rio+20: UN Global Compact and The Rockefeller Foundation Announce A Framework for Action on Social Enterprise and Impact Investing

2012-06-17
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

New Model Designed to Scale Up Global Social Enterprise Movement  Across Key Sectors – Food, Water, Energy, Health  (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 17 June 2012) – A new Framework for Action launched today offers investors, large corporations and Governments a valuable resource for engaging with and ...

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Rio+20: Business Models for Small-Scale Farmers and Solutions for Big Cities among the Innovations Put Forward at Private Sector Track to Rio+20

2012-06-17
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

(Rio de Janeiro, 17 June 2012) – New ways to bring energy, light and water to the world´s rapidly expanding cities, and possibilities for small-scale farmers to emerge from poverty and feed the world´s growing population, emerged from the third day of the private sector track to the Rio + 20 summ...

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Rio+20: Business Leaders in Rio Respond to UN Secretary-General’s Call for "Tipping Point" in Corporate Sustainability

2012-06-16
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

(Rio de Janeiro, 16 June 2012) –The first full day of the private sector track to Rio +20 opened with business schools stepping up sustainable development curricula, investment firms backing natural capital accounting, and corporate action on biodiversity. “Corporate sustainability is an idea ...

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Rio+20: 300 Leading Business School and University Representatives Worldwide Agree on a Roadmap for Responsible Management Education

2012-06-16
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

(Rio de Janeiro, 16 June 2012) – A series of measures to inject sustainability principles into management and business school curricula were announced today at the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Outcomes of the Third Global Forum for Responsible Management Edu...

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Global Compact Launches Guidelines for Higher Education Institutions’ Campus Operations

2012-06-16
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

(Rio de Janeiro, 16 June 2012) - A new Global Compact resource for Higher Education Insitutions, the Practical Guide to the United Nations Global Compact for Higher Education Institutions, was launched today at the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum. The Guide highlights how academic instituti...

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