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54 relations: Advocacy, Advocacy group, Alcan, Bank of America, BP, Business, Business development, Cement, Charles O. Holliday, Chief executive officer, Climate change, Corporate social responsibility, Developing country, DuPont, Earth Summit, Eco-efficiency, Efficient energy use, Egil Myklebust, Environmental Defense Fund, Ethisphere Institute, General Motors, Geneva, GlobeScan, Good governance, Infrastructure, Innovation, Intergovernmental organization, International Finance Corporation, ISO 26000, Jain Irrigation Systems, Lafarge (company), Maison de la paix, Monsanto, Multinational corporation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nestlé, Norsk Hydro, Paul Polman, Peter Bakker, Philip Watts, Policy, Poverty, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Research and development, Royal Dutch Shell, Sierra Club, Spanish language, Stephan Schmidheiny, Sustainable development, Switzerland, ..., The Guardian, Unilever, World Bank, 3M. Expand index (4 more) »
Advocacy
Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group which aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions.
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Advocacy group
Advocacy groups (also known as pressure groups, lobby groups, campaign groups, interest groups, or special interest groups) use various forms of advocacy in order to influence public opinion and/or policy.
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Alcan
Alcan was a Canadian mining company and aluminum manufacturer.
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Bank of America
Bank of America Corporation (abbreviated as BofA) is an American multinational financial services company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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BP
BP plc (stylised as bp), formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.
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Business
Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (goods and services).
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Business development
Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations.
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Cement
A cement is a binder, a substance used for construction that sets, hardens and adheres to other materials, binding them together.
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Charles O. Holliday
Charles Otis "Chad" Holliday, Jr. (born March 9, 1948) is an American businessman, former chairman of Bank of America and former chairman, former chief executive officer and a former director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont).
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Chief executive officer
Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.
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Climate change
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
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Corporate social responsibility
Corporate social responsibility (CSR, also called corporate sustainability, sustainable business, corporate conscience, corporate citizenship or responsible business) is a type of international private business self-regulation.
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Developing country
A developing country (or a low and middle income country (LMIC), less developed country, less economically developed country (LEDC), underdeveloped country) is a country with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
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DuPont
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Earth Summit
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, the Rio Summit, the Rio Conference, and the Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.
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Eco-efficiency
Over the years, as countries and regions around the world began to develop, it slowly became evident that industrialization and economic growth come hand in hand with environmental degradation.
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Efficient energy use
Efficient energy use, sometimes simply called energy efficiency, is the goal to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services.
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Egil Myklebust
Egil Myklebust (born 9 June 1942) is a Norwegian businessperson and lawyer.
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Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Defense Fund or EDF (formerly known as Environmental Defense) is a United States-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group.
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Ethisphere Institute
The Ethisphere Institute is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based organization that defines and measures corporate ethical standards, recognizes companies that excel, and promotes best practices in corporate ethics.
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General Motors
General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.
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Geneva
Geneva (Genève, Genèva, Genf, Ginevra, Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
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GlobeScan
GlobeScan is a public opinion research consultancy that does reputation, brand, sustainability, engagement, and trends research.
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Good governance
Good governance is an indeterminate term used in the international development literature to describe how public institutions conduct public affairs and manage public resources.
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Infrastructure
Infrastructure is the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or other area, including the services and facilities necessary for its economy to function.
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Innovation
Innovation can be defined simply as a "new idea, device or method".
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Intergovernmental organization
An intergovernmental organization or international governmental organisation (IGO) is an organization composed primarily of sovereign states (referred to as member states), or of other intergovernmental organizations.
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International Finance Corporation
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is an international financial institution that offers investment, advisory, and asset-management services to encourage private-sector development in developing countries.
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ISO 26000
ISO 26000 Guidance on social responsibility is launched from ISO, the International Organization for Standardization.
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Jain Irrigation Systems
Jain Irrigation Systems, often known as Jain Irrigation, JISL, or simply Jains, is a multinational organisation based in Jalgaon, India.
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Lafarge (company)
Lafarge is a French industrial company specialising in three major products: cement, construction aggregates, and concrete.
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Maison de la paix
The Maison de la paix (literally: House of Peace) is a building owned by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Monsanto
Monsanto Company was an agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation.
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Multinational corporation
A multinational corporation (MNC) or worldwide enterprise is a corporate organization that owns or controls production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.
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Natural Resources Defense Council
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a United States-based, non-profit international environmental advocacy group, with its headquarters in New York City and offices in Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; Los Angeles; New Delhi, India; Chicago; Bozeman, Montana; and Beijing, China.
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Nestlé
Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss transnational food and drink company headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.
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Norsk Hydro
Norsk Hydro ASA (often referred to as just Hydro) is a Norwegian aluminium and renewable energy company, headquartered in Oslo.
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Paul Polman
Paulus Gerardus Josephus Maria Polman KBE (born 11 July 1956) is a Dutch businessman.
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Peter Bakker
Peter Bakker (born 1 August 1961) is a Dutch businessman and current President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
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Philip Watts
Sir Philip Beverley Watts (born 25 June 1945) is a former chairman of the multinational energy company Shell and a priest in the Church of England.
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Policy
A policy is a deliberate system of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes.
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Poverty
Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers (doing business as PwC) is a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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Research and development
Research and development (R&D, R+D, or R'n'D), also known in Europe as research and technological development (RTD), refers to innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products, or improving existing services or products.
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Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known as Shell, is a British–Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom.
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Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Stephan Schmidheiny
Stephan Ernst Schmidheiny is a Swiss entrepreneur, philanthropist and advocate of sustainable development.
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Sustainable development
Sustainable development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depend.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Unilever
Unilever () is a British-Dutch transnational consumer goods company co-headquartered in London, United Kingdom and Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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World Bank
The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.
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3M
The 3M Company, formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation based in Maplewood, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul.
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