Integrating the Business Reporting Supply Chain highlights recommendations from the interviews of 25 key business leaders from around the globe on what should be done to improve corporate governance, business reporting, and auditing in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

Beyond Regulation: improving corporate governance in the UK and beyond. The conference will provide industry insights from senior figures in the business community and the practical tools to help you improve the quality of what you do in the boardroom. Toolkits have been developed by the Good Governance Forum, set up after the financial crisis in response to questions around the effectiveness of corporate governance. Attendees will also have the chance to be involved an interactive boardroom conversation workshop. The event will address corporate governance in the morning and stewardship in the afternoon. This will be followed by a drinks reception and dinner.

This briefing summarises projected growth patterns of the Global Green Economy, which in turn provides a case for businesses to invest in the emerging green industry which is predicted to be a dominant economic force. This paper does not focus on the pragmatic details of “greening an individual business” but rather provides an overview of the Green Economy as a whole entity.

Natural capital – our ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources – underpins economies, societies and individual wellbeing. The values of its myriad benefits are, however, often overlooked or poorly understood. They are rarely taken fully into accountthrough economic signals in markets, or in day to day decisions by business and citizens, nor indeed reflected adequately in the accounts of society. The steady loss of forests, soils, wetlands and coral reefs is closely tied to this economic invisibility. So too are the losses of species and of productive assets like fisheries, driven partly by ignoring values beyond the immediate and private. We are running down our natural capital stock without understanding the value of what we are losing. Missed opportunities to invest in this natural capital contribute to the biodiversity crisisthat is becoming more evident and more pressing by the day. The degradation of soils, air, water and biological resources can negatively impact on...

Air PollutionYou probably experienced pollution – it’s the smogand other contaminants that float in the air webreatheIn some cities around the world, such as LosAngeles, Mexico City and China, you can hear radioor TV alerts like the following :- Alert, today the level of pollution in the air is high- Children and the elderly should not go outside- Those who practice an outdoor sport should not do so- People with asthma should carry their inhalers at all times- The rest should avoid going out, or wear a mask when doingsoParallel crises- Financial crisis, spilling over into theeconomy- Climate crisis- Ecosystem/natural resources crisis –two thirds of our most importantecosystems – like tropical forests, farmland, fresh water and marine