The Globe Forum has published the Nominees for the 2009 Globe Award for Sustainability Research. Globe Award’s Sustainability Research Award is given to original research which successfully contributes to increased knowledge on sustainability.
The 2009 Nominees are:
1.Bengt Sture Ershag, Scandinavian Enviro Systems AB for an Innovation called Carbonizing by Forced Convection, a technology that thermally breaks down any organic material in a controllable environmental friendly closed system.
2. Dr. Candice Stevens, Sustainable Development Advisor at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for research focusing on “governance practices for sustainable development, identifying good practices in National Sustainable Development Strategies and approaches for Institutionalising Sustainable Development.”
3.Lisbeth Segerlund, Stockholm University, Dept. of Economic History, Section of International Relations for research focusing on the development of corporate social responsibility understood as a new international norm and how this norm has become an issue on the international agenda.”
4. Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) for developing a light source which runs on locally produced fuel, is environmentally friendly and produces bright light equivalent to that from a 100 W electric bulb.
5. PhD Susanne Arvidsson, School of Economics and Management, Lund for a research project focusing on “how companies work with Environmental, Social and Ethical responsibility and corporate Governance issues, how they communicate their achievements to stakeholders and how these issues can be worked more efficiently on.”
The Nominees for the Sustainability Innovation Award and Sustainability Reporting Award can be found here.
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Sustainability considerations are becoming part of the M&A deals reveals consulting company, Deloitte, in a recent document, “How Green is the Deal?”.
Why? The answer is quite predictable.
“M&A is frequently used strategically to attain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. As government regulation and consumers embrace the principles of sustainability, the need for companies to develop enterprise sustainability capabilities becomes increasingly imperative. M&A can be used strategically to identify competitors with existing skills sets that can be incorporated into the existing organization.”
Deloitte advises the parties to the transaction to include social and environmental indicators in the deal valuation process and to evaluate the costs asssociated with environmental factors like energy and water consumption, carbon footprint, solid waste. Moreover, the location of the target company in an environmentally vulnerable area might have a significant impact on the economics of the deal. Other aspects to be taken into account are: potential changes on consumer preferences, legislative changes, significant variation on energy prices and other suppliers prices.
A very interesting aspect is the importance given by Deloitte to the management&personnel skills in the field of sustainability. Acquirers should consider carefully what changes will be needed at management level and in the communication policy of the target company in order to get support for sustainability initiatives at the level of the organization.
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