Environment and climate change
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The World Bank (Banque Mondiale) Burundi
The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. It is a development bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank promotes growth to create jobs and to...
Voluntary Integration for Education and Welfare of Society (VIEWS)
Voluntary Integration for Education and Welfare of Society (VIEWS) is an Indian NGO working in Odisha. The organisation aims to improve the living conditions of the poor and marginalized by adopting strategies through community collective initiative and people's participation. Interventions are...
Revolutionary Ideology of Voluntary Entrepreneurs and Realistics(RIVER)
The Revolutionary Ideology of Voluntary Entrepreneurs and Realistics (RIVER)is an Indian NGO that works on health, environment, social, economic and cultural issues with and for marginalised communities in the slums of Kolkota. Major projects in which the organisation has been involved include...
China CSR Map (CCM)
China CSR Map (CCM) is a joint project between GIZ, SynTao and China Credit Information Service (CCIS) that aims to promote CSR information exchange and help organizations and individuals seek suitable partners by providing an authoritative English-Chinese directory of major organizations and...
Technological Empowerment for Africa (TEFA)
Technological Empowerment for Africa (TEFA)is an NGO in Kenya established to help poor communities overcome the barriers of marginalisation through the provision of clean water (digging, deepening or repairing wells), capacity building, developing micro-finance, green energy, technology and...
Hakuna Matata Project
The Hakuna Matata Project is a community based organisation in Kenya. The Project aims to provide a home and shelter for women and children built in an eco-friendly way and to establish a permaculture-designed farm that will provide healthy, nutritious food for the residents. There are also plans...
SELCO makes solar-lighting accessible to poor families in India
SELCO India is a Bangalore‐based social enterprise that makes solar lighting technology accessible to economically impoverished people in India.
Profiles of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CRS) practices of Philippine mining firms
The increased awareness of environmental impacts, the socio-economic implications of mining and a downturn in productivity, have highlighted the need for mining companies to adjust their business management process.
UN-Habitat
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. As the focal point...
Wumenu Community Farm Ho Volta Region of Ghana
The Wumenu Community Farm is a community development project aimed at helping the disadvantaged and poor of Wumenu village near Ho, in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa. The project is funded through fund raising events, donations from the general public in Scotland and through programs such...
Sustainability and Equity - A better future for all
The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals.
Environmental Defense and DuPont develop a framework for responsible nanotechnology
Environmental Defense, an environmental advocacy organization, and DuPont, a science-based products and services company, have developed a comprehensive, practical, and flexible Framework for evaluating and addressing the potential risks of nanoscale materials.
Diageo publishes sustainable packaging guidelines
Diageo has published its first "Sustainable Packaging Guidelines". The Guidelines represent the company's global policy on ensuring that packaging is increasingly sustainable and reflect Diageo’s commitment to a holistic approach to reducing the company's overall impact on the environment across...
SEKEM: A Holistic Egyptian Initiative
After living in Austria for 21 years, Ibrahim Abouleish returned home to Egypt to do something about the difficulties he observed during visits. In 1977, he founded the Sekem initiative to promote social and environmental development through economic and cultural activities.
Starbucks and Earthwatch: sustainable coffee
This video introduces a unique field-research programme created by Starbucks and Earthwatch.
The WWF Allianz Southeast Climate Witness Program used student volunteers to conduct vulnerability research
The WWF Allianz Southeast Climate Witness Program selected 24 high school students to engage in vulnerability research on the Southeast Rivers and Streams Ecoregion.
Land Rover assist Earthwatch in Iceland
A video diary from the 2008 Land Rover employee Earthwatch programme. Land Rover supports five major environmental partners including Earthwatch.
Dupont helps to develop a Framework for Responsible Nanotechnology
Gwen Ruta, the Environmental Defense Fund's Director of Corporate Partnerships, speaks about the Nano Risk Framework published by the Fund in partnership with Dupont.
Developing hybrid diesel-electric delivery trucks
This video shows how the American Environmental Defense Fund and FedEx Express collaborated in a project to develop hybrid diesel-electric technology in an attempt to decrease pollution and increase fuel efficiency.
Starbucks join the Conservation movement
Conservation International has worked with Starbucks Coffee Company for more than 14 years to promote coffee production practices that conserve biodiversity, maintain healthy ecosystems and support economic and social development in coffee production landscapes as embodied in the company’s...