Sunday, September 02, 2007

Small firms must see the green light


We started to live beyond our ecological means on October 7, 2006. The New Economics Foundation, a UK think tank, revealed that humanity has used up what nature can renew this year and is eating into its "ecological capital".

On October 30, the government's chief economist Sir Nicholas Stern published his authoritative report on climate change, which he described as the "greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen".

Social and environmental responsibility has become an important driver in many modern businesses-half of all FTSE-100 companies produce a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report.

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