HSBC have written a set of guidelines that set standards for responsible/sustainable investment in five major sectors.

UNEP Launches Green Economy Initiative to Get the Global Markets Back to Work

The UN has created an tool that will allow decision makers to incorporate an assessment of the impact on biodiversity.

Corporate leaders are challenged to step up to greater commitments on sustainability, and to ensure they have performance measures for behaviour directly linked to responsibility and trust if they are to succeed. With sustainability driving trust and innovation, companies are making it core to their strategies and activities, so having stand-alone CSR (corporate social responsibility) departments looks like a fast-declining trend. This is according to global reputation auditors Echo Research, in their latest report, "A World in Trust - Leadership and Corporate Responsibility" with the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF).

BT plans to develop wind farms aimed at generating up to 25 per cent of its existing UK electricity requirements by 2016.