Sectors

Management & implementation: Unilever’s sustainable agriculture programme

Unilever’s activity on sustainable agriculture occurs within a corporate policy framework that commits the company to ‘minimise any adverse effects on soil fertility, water and air quality, and biodiversity from agricultural activities’.

Recovering algae beds by means of Ferrous Supply Unit / [case study] by Nippon Steel Corp and Keidanren Committee on Nature Conservation

This project harnesses the byproducts of two production processes, using steel slag generated in steel production and waste woodchips from forestry, to restore coastal ecosystems affected by denuding.

Sustainable Clothing Roadmap

http://www.defra.gov.uk/publications/2011/06/02/pb...

The Sustainable Clothing Roadmap is a UK government scheme launched in 2007 to make fashion less environmentally damaging and more sustainable. This initiative involves over 200 organisations, including many high street retailers who have committed to a number of actions related to fair-trade, organic certification, and recycling.

Corporate Environmental Responsibility Group

http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/get_involved/invo...

CERG provides a cross-sectoral forum for exchanging ideas and raising corporate awareness about, and engagement in, sustainability-related issues.

Global Action Network for Transparency in the Supply Chain

https://www.globalreporting.org/reporting/reportin...

Through this Global Action Network offshoot, large companies will be able to offer GRI-certified training and one-on-one support to their Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) suppliers in preparing a GRI G3 sustainability report.

Institut Inspire

http://www.inspire-institut.org/

The French Institut Inspire endeavours to assist and support businesses and local authorities in developing new strategies that include biodiversity conservation criteria. It brings together companies, local authorities, NGOs, and other stakeholders who wish to work on the developments of the following topics:

• Innovation through biomimicry
• Cradle to cradle schemes
• Functionality economy schemes and ecosystems restoration.

International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA)

http://www.ipieca.org/

IPIECA is the global oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues. It represents a partnership between leading energy companies and conservation organizations to develop and promote best practices for integrating biodiversity conservation into oil and gas development and transmission.