Lettre commune de l'UIA, du CCBE, de la FBE, de l'OHADA, d'AVOCATS.BE et du barreau de Paris concernant la création de la ABCPI (barreau auprès de la Cour pénale internationale : pour dénoncer un manque flagrant d'indépendance
Rethink Conference 2013 - The Social Agency of the Future Gemma Craven
Disruption is happening to business worldwide and the communications agency is no exception to this rule. What does an agency need to do to survive and prosper in tomorrow's world? My presentation from Rethink Oslo 2013
Lettre commune de l'UIA, du CCBE, de la FBE, de l'OHADA, d'AVOCATS.BE et du barreau de Paris concernant la création de la ABCPI (barreau auprès de la Cour pénale internationale : pour dénoncer un manque flagrant d'indépendance
Rethink Conference 2013 - The Social Agency of the Future Gemma Craven
Disruption is happening to business worldwide and the communications agency is no exception to this rule. What does an agency need to do to survive and prosper in tomorrow's world? My presentation from Rethink Oslo 2013
Over the last few decades, palm oil has steadily been on the rise and worldwide it has become the most important vegetable oil. NGOs and environmental activists are very worried. For many years tropical forests have been destroyed at an alarming rate to make room for oil palm plantations.
Can this orange gold be sustainably cultivated?
Sector snapshot on palm oil - campaigners have long called for the palm oil industry to cut its links with deforestation. Numerous strategies - not always complementary - are being adopted to improve standards across the industry's complex supply chain.
Taken from Innovation Forum's new Supply Chain Risk & Innovation publication, published ten times a year on a subscription basis. The publication brings together concise, practical insight into global supply chains.
Required reading for senior management, buyers, business sustainability professionals and all who advise them, Supply Chain Risk & Innovation distils all the myriad information, data, research and comment, presented it in a clear, analytical format.
Find out more here: http://innovation-forum.co.uk/supply-chain-risk-innovation.php
WWF Italia dossier: Olio di palma, le pagelle WWF WWF ITALIA
L’olio di palma, il più diffuso olio vegetale al mondo, è una grave minaccia per le ultime foreste tropicali del pianeta e sebbene il settore stia facendo passi in avanti nell’evitare gli impatti ambientali (il 15% della produzione mondiale è certificata, contro l'11% del 2011), per il WWF non è ancora abbastanza.
Per stimolare le imprese a impegnarsi seriamente nella produzione e utilizzo di olio di palma sostenibile, il WWF ha dato le “pagelle” alle maggiori aziende mondiali del settore attraverso il Palm Oil Buyers Scorecard Report 2013 http://bit.ly/1bo3bnB
Palm oil is found in many products you probably use every day. But its production sometimes comes at the expense of forests, communities and wildlife. What are the solutions?
58TN RECENT years a variety of global , 1 names in journal.docxalinainglis
58
TN RECENT years a variety of global , 1 names in journalism have been put forward as potential buyers of the Financial Times. But it came as a surprise when on July 23rd, the FrS owner, Pearson, announced that it was selling the newspaper to Nikkei of japan, forE844m (S13 billion). Pearson wants to concentrate on its education businesses, and its boss, john Fallon, argued that with the growth of mobile and social-media platforms, a better home for the Fr would be a global, digital news company
TIMES
.•_ ••
ifti"P'"I no* **Sibs .4..4.
However, it is not clear quite how Nikkei fits the bill. It publishes Japan's largest business newspaper, the Nikkei. But it is almost entirely focused on the domestic market Its daily has 2.ilm paid subscribers to the Fr s 72o,000, but only one-sixth of them receive the paper digitally. The iris much further along in the transition from print, with two-thirds of subscribers having gone digital.
Nikkei has promised to respect the FT'S editorial independence, even though its own journalistic culture is far removed from that of the British paper. It is a willing participant in Japan's system of
cosy "press clubs", in
► reports that it wants to leave the country. Some of its foreign land is tangled up in legal disputes or is in countries suffering from war or political unrest, such as Syria. Mr Alabbar admits that business is tougher away from Dubai's helpful leaders.
Some of Emaar's shareholders worry that Mr Alabbar is distracted by his other endeavours, and see them as conflicts of interest. He is the founder of Capital City Partners, which is in talks to build a huge new capital city in Egypt, and a board member of Eagle Hills, which is responsi
which reporters are spoon-fed news in return for steering mostly clear of negative coverage. In 2014 for example, the Nikkei's editors dragged their feet for weeks after the Fr began reporting the accounting scandal at Olympus, a camera-maker In a comment that will surely have made the Fr newsroom cringe, Japan's economy minister, Akira Amari, said the takeover would lead to more accurate reporting of government economic policy
There will be no formal guarantee of the FT's editorial independence. But nor was there any such guarantee under Pearson's ownership. Burthermore, Nikkel'sbosses will surely understand that any attempts to tinker with it would gravely undermine the value of the asset they have just paid so dearly for
Pearson's sale of the Fr did not include its 50% stake in The Economist, which confers neither corporate nor editorial control. However, Pearson has said it is in talks to sell its Economist stake. One existing shareholder, Exor, run by john Ellcarm
of the Agnelli family
said it was exploring the "possibility of increasing its investment in the group". The transfer of one class of
shares would have to be approved by independent trustees whose role is to safeguard our
corporate and
editorial in
The transfer of the remaining shares would have .
While the palm oil industry is still investigating how to stop the destruction of human and environmental resources in South East Asia, fair alternatives already exist, such as palm oil projects in Ghana, Togo and Ecuador which have been certified and have obtained the Fair for Life label.
Palm Oil: Sustainability achieved through transparencyTransparency-One
Palm oil has a reputation as a “bad” product, but do we really know why this is, and where it’s used? And more importantly, can we do something about it?
Innovation Forum will be hosting the ‘how business can tackle deforestation – A make or break issue for Asia’s corporate reputation?’ conference in Singapore on 28-29 September 2015.
Speakers include senior representatives from Unilever, APP, Wilmar, Cargill, UBS, Musim Mas, Mars, Neste Oil, WWF, Forest Peoples Programme, and many more leading brands and influential NGOs.
They’ll be discussing their views on best practice and latest trends, along with what’s on the horizon beyond 2016 targets.
You can register at: http://www.innovation-forum.co.uk./deforestation-singapore-registration.php. Alternatively, get in touch with Innovation Forum directly – charlenne.ordonez@innovation-forum.co.uk
If briefing-how-business-can-tackle-deforestationDragoș Tuță
Here is Innovation Forum’s new management briefing on what companies can do to minimise their deforestation footprints, work with NGOs and manage legal and reputational risk.
It features contributions from Greenpeace, TFT, Marks & Spencer, Neste Oil, Canopy, Robertsbridge and many others. There's some really useful insight in there into how to deal with risk, manage transparency, engage stakeholders and work with NGOs.
Over the last few decades, palm oil has steadily been on the rise and worldwide it has become the most important vegetable oil. NGOs and environmental activists are very worried. For many years tropical forests have been destroyed at an alarming rate to make room for oil palm plantations.
Can this orange gold be sustainably cultivated?
Sector snapshot on palm oil - campaigners have long called for the palm oil industry to cut its links with deforestation. Numerous strategies - not always complementary - are being adopted to improve standards across the industry's complex supply chain.
Taken from Innovation Forum's new Supply Chain Risk & Innovation publication, published ten times a year on a subscription basis. The publication brings together concise, practical insight into global supply chains.
Required reading for senior management, buyers, business sustainability professionals and all who advise them, Supply Chain Risk & Innovation distils all the myriad information, data, research and comment, presented it in a clear, analytical format.
Find out more here: http://innovation-forum.co.uk/supply-chain-risk-innovation.php
WWF Italia dossier: Olio di palma, le pagelle WWF WWF ITALIA
L’olio di palma, il più diffuso olio vegetale al mondo, è una grave minaccia per le ultime foreste tropicali del pianeta e sebbene il settore stia facendo passi in avanti nell’evitare gli impatti ambientali (il 15% della produzione mondiale è certificata, contro l'11% del 2011), per il WWF non è ancora abbastanza.
Per stimolare le imprese a impegnarsi seriamente nella produzione e utilizzo di olio di palma sostenibile, il WWF ha dato le “pagelle” alle maggiori aziende mondiali del settore attraverso il Palm Oil Buyers Scorecard Report 2013 http://bit.ly/1bo3bnB
Palm oil is found in many products you probably use every day. But its production sometimes comes at the expense of forests, communities and wildlife. What are the solutions?
58TN RECENT years a variety of global , 1 names in journal.docxalinainglis
58
TN RECENT years a variety of global , 1 names in journalism have been put forward as potential buyers of the Financial Times. But it came as a surprise when on July 23rd, the FrS owner, Pearson, announced that it was selling the newspaper to Nikkei of japan, forE844m (S13 billion). Pearson wants to concentrate on its education businesses, and its boss, john Fallon, argued that with the growth of mobile and social-media platforms, a better home for the Fr would be a global, digital news company
TIMES
.•_ ••
ifti"P'"I no* **Sibs .4..4.
However, it is not clear quite how Nikkei fits the bill. It publishes Japan's largest business newspaper, the Nikkei. But it is almost entirely focused on the domestic market Its daily has 2.ilm paid subscribers to the Fr s 72o,000, but only one-sixth of them receive the paper digitally. The iris much further along in the transition from print, with two-thirds of subscribers having gone digital.
Nikkei has promised to respect the FT'S editorial independence, even though its own journalistic culture is far removed from that of the British paper. It is a willing participant in Japan's system of
cosy "press clubs", in
► reports that it wants to leave the country. Some of its foreign land is tangled up in legal disputes or is in countries suffering from war or political unrest, such as Syria. Mr Alabbar admits that business is tougher away from Dubai's helpful leaders.
Some of Emaar's shareholders worry that Mr Alabbar is distracted by his other endeavours, and see them as conflicts of interest. He is the founder of Capital City Partners, which is in talks to build a huge new capital city in Egypt, and a board member of Eagle Hills, which is responsi
which reporters are spoon-fed news in return for steering mostly clear of negative coverage. In 2014 for example, the Nikkei's editors dragged their feet for weeks after the Fr began reporting the accounting scandal at Olympus, a camera-maker In a comment that will surely have made the Fr newsroom cringe, Japan's economy minister, Akira Amari, said the takeover would lead to more accurate reporting of government economic policy
There will be no formal guarantee of the FT's editorial independence. But nor was there any such guarantee under Pearson's ownership. Burthermore, Nikkel'sbosses will surely understand that any attempts to tinker with it would gravely undermine the value of the asset they have just paid so dearly for
Pearson's sale of the Fr did not include its 50% stake in The Economist, which confers neither corporate nor editorial control. However, Pearson has said it is in talks to sell its Economist stake. One existing shareholder, Exor, run by john Ellcarm
of the Agnelli family
said it was exploring the "possibility of increasing its investment in the group". The transfer of one class of
shares would have to be approved by independent trustees whose role is to safeguard our
corporate and
editorial in
The transfer of the remaining shares would have .
While the palm oil industry is still investigating how to stop the destruction of human and environmental resources in South East Asia, fair alternatives already exist, such as palm oil projects in Ghana, Togo and Ecuador which have been certified and have obtained the Fair for Life label.
Palm Oil: Sustainability achieved through transparencyTransparency-One
Palm oil has a reputation as a “bad” product, but do we really know why this is, and where it’s used? And more importantly, can we do something about it?
Innovation Forum will be hosting the ‘how business can tackle deforestation – A make or break issue for Asia’s corporate reputation?’ conference in Singapore on 28-29 September 2015.
Speakers include senior representatives from Unilever, APP, Wilmar, Cargill, UBS, Musim Mas, Mars, Neste Oil, WWF, Forest Peoples Programme, and many more leading brands and influential NGOs.
They’ll be discussing their views on best practice and latest trends, along with what’s on the horizon beyond 2016 targets.
You can register at: http://www.innovation-forum.co.uk./deforestation-singapore-registration.php. Alternatively, get in touch with Innovation Forum directly – charlenne.ordonez@innovation-forum.co.uk
If briefing-how-business-can-tackle-deforestationDragoș Tuță
Here is Innovation Forum’s new management briefing on what companies can do to minimise their deforestation footprints, work with NGOs and manage legal and reputational risk.
It features contributions from Greenpeace, TFT, Marks & Spencer, Neste Oil, Canopy, Robertsbridge and many others. There's some really useful insight in there into how to deal with risk, manage transparency, engage stakeholders and work with NGOs.
3. INSIGHT
PALM OIL
Orangutansshare97%ofthesameDNAashumans
NEWCONSUMER.COM
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sources palm oil from sustainable
plantations in Columbia, and
Asda claims to be the first UK su-
permarket to reject products con-
tainingunsustainableoil.
In November 2005, the RSPO
kicked off a two-year trial to prove
the feasibility of certified palm oil.
With the trial now complete, for-
mal independent auditors are cur-
rentlybeingtrainedandappointed
to assess any plantation that seeks
theCSPOmark,andthefirstbatch-
es of CSPO are expected to be avail-
able by July, with quantities be-
tween 100,000 to 500,000 tons
beingproducedthroughout2008.
“We are not aiming to end palm
oilproductionortoboycottit,”says
Adam Harrison, a WWF palm oil
expert. “We recognise that it is an
important source of foreign earn-
ings for producer regions and that
it is not appropriate to seek to re-
movethoseopportunities.
“Major global industries will not
easilymovetoalternativessoweare
aimingtoensurethatallpalmoilis
producedtotheRSPOstandard.”
But that tonnage won’t immedi-
ately be in our supermarkets.
Onceplantationsarecer-
tified, the RSPO says
that there are two
workable options
for delivering
CSPO to the Eu-
ropean market.
Firstly, by ensur-
ing that palm oil
is fully segregated and traceable.
This is a very expensive option, but
practical because products could
then carry the CSPO stamp, and
consumers would know what they
weregetting.
Secondly, by setting up a ‘book
and claim’ system – dubbed Green-
Palm–wherecompaniescanclaim
that its products support the pro-
duction of CSPO. They would
buynon-sustainablycer-
tified palm oil from
the normal supply
chainbut,forevery
ton, they would
alsobuyacertifi-
cate stating that
they helped en-
c o u r a g e t h e
growthofCSPOby
rewardingtheplan-
tationdirectly.
But despite the fact
the RSPO claims that no
other organisation has made as
much progress with a certification
scheme involving tropical edible
oils,itsprogressindeliveringCSPO
to market has been painfully slow.
Atleasttwomillionhectaresofnew
plantations have been developed
sincetheRSPOprocessbegan.
SLOWPROGRESS
“We’re not quite there yet,” admits
TonyLass,ethicalsourcingadviser
at Cadbury Schweppes, a member
oftheRSPO.“TheRSPOhasworked
very hard, not always necessarily
successfully, to get CSPO to the
marketassoonaspossible.
“We want supply that is not just
available in niche quantity but for
the mainstream market. Current
tradersinpalmoilneedtobeableto
trade in sustainable palm oil. It’s a
newproductandweneednewcon-
tractstoreflectthat.”
So can consumers play a part in
helping to bring CSPO to the mar-
ket any faster? Jan Kees Vis, who is
thesustainableagriculturedirector
offoodsatUnilever,andchairofthe
RSPO,doesn’tthinkso.“Everybody
in the sector is fully aware of what
RSPO is trying to do,” he says.
“Right now, it is all down to audit
capacity and building up volume. I
donotthinkweneedbigconsumer
campaigns. The volume of CSPO
FORMOREINFORMATION
WWW.LIFEMOSAIC.NET
WWW.RSPO.ORG
willnotgrowfasterasaresult.”
Butthereareotherproblemswith
the RSPO. It stands to benefit large
companies – although it has a
smallholdingworkinggroup,there
isstillnoclearwayforsmallholders
to gain accreditation. And as a vol-
untary organisation, it has no real
teeth – demonstrated by its failure
to enforce a moratorium of all for-
est degradation for palm oil upon
itsmembers.
“To date, the RSPO has failed to
tackle the palm oil industry’s ex-
pansion into rainforest and peat-
landsandtheresultinggreenhouse
gas emissions,” says a Greenpeace
spokesman. “Key members of the
RSPO remain actively involved in
forest destruction some four years
aftertheschemewasestablished.
“Atthistime,theRSPOisjustbe-
ingusedasagreenfig-leafbysome
companieswhowanttoexploitthe
rainforestsfortheirowngain.”
INFORMEDCHOICE
Noonecoulddenythattheultimate
aimoftheRSPO–tobuildamarket
for certified sustainable palm oil –
isacrucialone.Butfornowthecon-
sumerisleftlittlethewiser.Andfor
those at the other end of the chain,
the information is muddy – many
small palm oil farmers are being
givenfalseinformationaboutwhat
benefits they will receive and what
impact plantations will have on
them.
Until those thousands of tons of
RSPO-certifiedpalmoilgetintoour
supermarket trolley, there’s still a
battle to be fought by us, the con-
sumers.Weneedtoletretailersand
manufacturers know that we want
informationonpalmoiltobemore
readilyavailable,aswellasdemand-
ing that they source sustainably
produced palm oil. We can also
lobby the EU for mandatory envi-
ronmentalandsocialstandards.
Demanding an informed choice
is not always easy. But, when we’re
so close to achieving a sustainable
product, it’s more important now
thanever.*
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disappearedinthe
past20years
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