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  • Action Points GE Road-Tests New Carbon Reporting Standards
    In October 2011, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol unveiled two new standards for measuring and reporting carbon emissions throughout product life cycles and corporate value chains. GE played an important role in their development as one of a number of...

  • Decade in Review
    The past decade has seen an acceleration in practical action by business. Companies have invested in eco-efficiency to find ways to “do more with less,” they have adopted ambitious environmental and social performance targets and managed them as...

  • Expert Perspectives Q&A with John Flannery, India CEO
    How important is India to GE, and how can India’s place in GE’s plans be compared to its focus on the U.S. and China? GE has been in India for more than a century, with our first investments being in hydro power back in 1902. Our growth here has...

  • Milestones in Citizenship
    One cannot effectively plan for the future without looking at our evolution and the lessons from the past. Dating back to 1999, this timeline outlines milestones in the citizenship field in areas including reporting, standards, human rights...

  • Overview of Challenges & Value
    GE is an advanced technology, services and finance company taking on the world’s toughest challenges by finding ways to respond that create value. GE businesses depend on the infrastructure, skills and institutions of stable prosperous...

  • Action Points Innovation in Sewage Treatment
    One of the big challenges of the city of Campinas, located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, has been the treatment of sewage. A significant amount is still being discharged into rivers without treatment, jeopardizing the safety of the water...

  • Expert Perspectives Business Ethics As the Basis of Business Strength
    In the past three decades of China’s social and economic development, businesses have benefited enormously from the country’s opening up and its economic reforms. At the same time, they have contributed significantly to improving livelihoods and...

  • Expert Perspectives The Naked Corporation
    A decade ago, transparency was considered an option and modesty was seen as an asset. No longer. For companies today, the question isn’t whether they should be forthcoming about their environmental and social impacts, commitments and achievements...

  • Expert Perspectives The Power of Zero
    2012 will be a milestone year for sustainability, with the 20th anniversary of the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro marked by another major event in the city and the 25th anniversary of the Brundtland Commission, which began the mainstreaming of...

  • Expert Perspectives The Green Race Has Already Begun
    The World Business Council is a group of more than 200 businesses working together on sustainable development. Over the past 16 years we have seen sustainable development considerations shift out of the margins labeled “corporate social...

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