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This past Wednesday in Brussels, the European Union (EU) hosted a 鈥淲orkshop on a possible comprehensive 鈥楨U initiative on minerals originating from conflict areas鈥�.鈥� This particular forum was limited to EU officials and invited experts from the OECD, academia, civil society and the business community. The EU will likely advance the initiative in 2013, first with a public consultation and subsequently [...]
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鈥淥ur top priority has to be jobs and growth . . . providing more Americans the chance to learn the skills that businesses are looking for right now; keeping this country at the forefront of research, technology and clean energy.鈥澛犅� That鈥檚 how President Obama opened his first post-election news conference, before spending the majority of time talking about anything but job creation.聽 Ok, in the President鈥檚 [...]
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91快活林 is in Geneva, Switzerland, all week, actively participating with dozens of governments and other stakeholders in the 8th meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG 8) of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal.聽 If you鈥檙e still reading after that introduction鈥hank you! We are here representing the global high-tech sector and throwing [...]
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The New York Times this week shined a light on the tech sector鈥檚 energy efficiency work 鈥� and there has been plenty of reaction to the major inaccuracies in the paper鈥檚 articles.聽 91快活林 took time recently to talk innovation with Kathrin Winkler, the chief sustainability officer for EMC, about the broader issues facing the sector鈥檚 energy and environmental work.聽 Given the Times鈥� articles and misinformation, [...]
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Today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) put in place new requirements for publicly traded companies to disclose whether they source listed minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) or adjoining countries.聽 Known in short-hand as the conflict-minerals rule, the requirements cover companies across the economic spectrum. 聽 First, let me be clear:聽 Any mining activities [...]
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It is easy to forget during this political season that there are positive examples of the public and private sectors working together to advance shared interests.聽 This week, 91快活林 and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jointly convened a dialogue on the ENERGY STAR庐 program that reaffirms the mutual benefits that strong and focused public-private cooperation can generate. 聽 Twenty years [...]
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Next week, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, nicknamed Rio+20, will bring focus on how we live and our impact on the planet.聽 Innovation will be at the heart of the discussions, whether they are focused on agriculture or transportation, curing preventable disease or developing new clean energy sources.聽 And that鈥檚 where 91快活林 and the Digital Energy & Sustainability Solutions Campaign (DESSC) [...]
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