Sustainability Reporting in the Australian Commonwealth Public Sector: An application of New Institutional Theory Abstract This paper explores sustainability reporting in the Australian Commonwealth public sector through the focus on departments with a primary responsibility for social and environmental issues. The research moves beyond existing theorisation for social and environmental reporting and adopts new institutional theory in order to assess the extent to which coercive‚ mimetic and
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Hilton Hotels: Building Sustainability with a greener world. STREAM 1 - GROUP 4 Date: - 29.11.2010 Executive Summary The report examines sustainability in hotel industry‚ as how important it has become‚ for a firm or organisation to become environmentally sustainable in today’s world. After global warming‚ everyone has become more cautious about environment‚ more organisations have realised responsibility towards environment. Since‚ hotel industry and tourism industry are inter-linked
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Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability The Millennium Declaration was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on September 8‚ 2000. It set eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to outline the global agenda to “reaffirm the universal values and principles of freedom‚ equality‚ solidarity‚ tolerance‚ respect for nature and the UN’s commitment to promoting peace‚ security‚ disarmament‚ human rights‚ democracy and good governance” (United Nation in India‚ 2011). Each goal has been
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18 REFERENCES 22 Preface Sustainable development means that the needs of the present generation should be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainability is the key to preventing or reducing the effect of environmental issues. Environmental sustainability is the process of making sure current processes of interaction with the environment are pursued with the idea of keeping the environment as pristine as naturally possible based on ideal-seeking
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The Sustainability Issues Facing Banks Sustainability issues fall into three broad categories – economic (including customer)‚ social and environmental – but each has several subcategories. Barclays‚ for instance‚ commissioned reputational research via interviews‚ surveys and focus groups‚ testing messages on a range of sustainability issues The Economic Dimension The most important aspect of a bank’s sustainability program is managing the impact that its products‚ services and customer relationships
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They are environmental‚ social and governance. They take care that they operate responsibly in all the three dimensions in each of their project in any geography may it be they are operating. Till date Prologis have published their sustainability report for the eighth year. Apart from the global effort for achieving sustainability‚ Prologis also give much importance to support local businesses in its operations. It sources
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Environmental Psychology Analysis A television series celebrating its tenth season‚ 19 kids and counting shows a family with the achievement of 19 kids. The entertainment industry first chose to broadcast the birth of three children and made it a show when they were at 17 kids. Since then the Duggar family has welcomed two additional children into their family along with two grandchildren from their oldest child. The entertainment industry displays this family for entertainment purposes. Individuals
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______________________________________ 14 Environmental Performance _________________________________________ 16 Product Responsibility _______________________________________________ 18 Social Compliance _____________________________________________________ 19 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2012/13 Chairman’s Message Welcome to NOMAN Group’s 2012-2013 Sustainability Report. We hope this report demonstrates our true commitment to environmental and social sustainability at Noman Group. It shows that even
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Sustainability and Environmental Issues in the Design Business For this assignment I am required to compile a report on the sustainable and environmental values held by a well-known company. The company I will be reporting on is Chanel. Chanel is one of the fashion leaders of the world specializing in both hand made couture and off the rack’ ready to wear fashions. Their target audiences are the wealthy members of society. Their logo and distinctive fashion styles since the 1920’s have moulded
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF ECOTOURISM The impacts of ecotourism to the host country can be environmental‚ economical or socio cultural‚ impacts can be positive and negative. Tourism relationship with the environment is complex‚ many activities can have different environmental effects. Many of these impacts are linked with the construction of general infrastructure such as roads‚airports and tourism facilities including resorts‚ hotels‚ golf clubs and marinas. The negative impact of tourism
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