The transcript of a speech made by professor Charles Handy in 1990 looking at what a company is for.

The attached is a presentation made by Pavan Sukhdev in Bonn earlier this year to commemorate Green Week 2008. It elaborates what TEEB really is, and illustrates the ecological, valuation and ethical challenges that lie ahead of us.

Impact International design and deliver development programmes that benefit both client organisations and charities.  One example is the five day development training they organised for Borealis at a school in Cumbria.

The carbon challenge is a complex area and, to help managers plan the way forward, Clownfish Marketing has created a Carbon Management guide. This guide aims to outline how organisations can take their carbon management strategy beyond carbon offsets helping them enhance their corporate reputation, protect themselves from inevitable future legislation and demonstrate their commitment to responsible business practices. 

   “A lack of long-term stewardship by company heads and shareholders is at the heart of the current financial crisis, an influential think-tank says in a report published on Wednesday. Tomorrow’s Company, whose previous research has helped shape UK company law, urges the government to understand better the effects of the growing “casino economy”, where activities such as derivatives trading are often far removed from the real economy activity to which they theoretically relate. The report warns against the search for scapegoats for the current crisis and says that it is wrong to attack private equity, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds for irresponsibility, noting that different shareholders perform different functions. However, it condemns the practice of borrowing shares for voting purposes and asks if investors need to toughen up their engagement to change company behaviour or divest holdings in companies with particular shortcomings. Mark Goyder, Tomorrow’s Company...