Environment and climate change
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KPMG supports The Prince's Rainforests Project
KPMG supports The Prince's Rainforests Project, which draws people together from governments, businesses and NGOs to find practical solutions to slow tropical deforestation and combat climate change. KPMG has committed to use its expertise and international footprint to bring deforestation up the...
Walmart unveils eco-friendly products, mobilizes workforce in partnerships with NGOs
Walmart celebrated global Earth Month by demonstrating its commitment to a greener environment around the world. Walmart will unveil a number of earth friendly products, partner with local governments and NGOs, sponsor community activities and engage its 2.2 million associates worldwide to promote...
Virgin Atlantic and Swiss-based charity Myclimate launch carbon offset scheme to benefit local communities
Virgin Atlantic launched the first ever onboard carbon offset scheme, endorsed by 49 NGOs worldwide, including many environmental groups. The airline has partnered with Swiss-based charity Myclimate to offer a Gold Standard Carbon Offset Scheme which is now available to passengers inflight as well...
AMPA Resource Foundation
The AMPA Resource Foundation is a Ghanaian NGO working on social service and health issues in rural communities. AMPA has undertaken several community based interventions and social development initiatives including public health education, good sanitation campaigns, civic engagements on...
IKEA Sponsors Forestry Scholarships
Every year, the IKEA Group supports one-year scholarships for 22 students from Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia to study forestry at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science in Alnarp, Sweden. These scholarships have been arranged annually since 2001.
IKEA is cooperating with WWF to reduce impact on the climate.
IKEA is cooperating with WWF and implementing several projects globally in an effort to reduce the impact on the climate, the forests, and cotton. IKEA and WWF hope to encourage considerate, efficient, long-term economically sound usage of natural resources with the ultimate goal of ensuring that...
Pastoral Communities Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
The Pastoral Communities Center for Peace and Conflict Studies is a new NGO in Kenya. The organization has well trained staff with competence, experience and skill in peace and conflict management, advocacy and governance, health, education, agriculture, natural resource management and community...
Garib Unnayan Sangstha
Garib Unnayan Sangstha is a Bangladeshi NGO that works with poor rural communities living on the flood plains in the south of the country. The organisation runs a number of programmes in partnership with international aid agencies, including a Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS), Greater...
International Youth Council South Sudan Chapter
The South Sudan Chapter of the International Youth Council provides a local perspective and input consistent with the overall mission of the Council. South Sudan Chapter aims to promote sustainable development (social equity, environmental quality, and economic viability) through cross-cultural,...
Mulema Life Foundation
Mulema Life Foundation is a humanitarian development and advocacy organisation dedicated to helping families and their communities reach their full potential by tackling causes of poverty, suffering and injustice. The Foundation's main programmes include water and sanitation, food security,...
Goshen Community Ministries
Goshen Community Ministries is a Christian NGO in Uganda. The organisation works with under privileged children and young people, orphans and poor adults. The main focus of the organisation is education, health and environmental protection (including sanitation and waste management in the form of...
British American Tobacco establishes a biodiversity partnership with NGOs
British American Tobacco has established a biodiversity partnership, now in its third five-year term (2011-2015). The partners (Fauna & Flora International, Earthwatch, Tropical Biology Association, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and British American Tobacco) have appointed an independent programme...
Partnership aims to stop rare plant smuggling
TRAFFIC-Hong Kong, one of the 22 branches of a NGO network that monitors wildlife trade globally, partnered with Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd to improve the airline's ability to stop the smuggling of rare plants on its planes.
WWF and IKEA Conservation Partnership
IKEA and WWF began a co-operation in 2002 to jointly promote responsible forestry in priority regions around the world. Together the two organizations have planned and implemented a series of projects in China, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The projects are important...
Developing hybrid diesel-electric delivery trucks
In 2000, FedEx Express and Environmental Defense Fund struck an alliance to develop a delivery truck that dramatically decreases emissions while increasing fuel economy. The result was a diesel-electric hybrid, an ideal application for hybrid technology, given the frequent stopping and starting of...
Greenpeace and Marks & Spencer: Sustainable seafood procurement
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has adopted a Policy on Sustainable Sourcing of Fisheries Products, which applies to all seafood sold, including fish used as an ingredient. M&S came top of Greenpeace UK's Recipe for Disaster, a study of UK supermarkets, ranking them by their seafood policies.
Unilever and WWF establish certification for sustainable fisheries
The MSC Standard by the Marine Stewardship Council is the only internationally recognised set of environmental principles for assessing fisheries to establish whether they are well managed and sustainable. The MSC is an independent, global, non-profit organisation which was set up to find a...
NIKE Village Development Project
Nike in partnership with the Population & Community Development Association (PDA) and local villages, established the ‘NIKE Village Development Project’ in Thailand.
Eni E&P Division and Shell Italia launched biodiversity project
Eni E&P Division and Shell Italia E&P established a working group that, in 2003, launched the AgriBioDiversity project, in collaboration with Fauna and Flora International and the World Conservation Union and others, for biodiversity monitoring in the ecologically sensitive area of Val...
ExxonMobil is partnering with SEED Foundation to promote sustaining global water supplies
Imperial Oil Limited, the Canadian affiliate of ExxonMobil, is partnering with the nonprofit Society, Environment and Energy Development Studies (SEEDS) Foundation to bring environmental education to secondary schools in Canada.