Wander through Tunisia, Egypt, Andalusia, India, Persia and China, while mingling at fashion and food bazaars including H&M, The Gap, Nike and Starbucks. Ibn Battuta Mall blows away Epcot Center.
GM has turned a corner, and the company is improving its performance at many levels from water stewardship, its supply chain management and overall design process.
Walmart has been ordered to close some stores in Chongqing and pay the equivalent of US$420,000 in penalties because of mislabeled pork. But take a breath before you say “scandal.”
Today the GHG Protocol launches two new global greenhouse gas accounting standards – for corporate value chains (scope 3)and product life cycle emissions.
It may be hard to believe, but there was a time when discounted retailers had clothes that were made in America. Brands like Osh-Kosh and Geranimals were made in textile mills just a few decades ago.
August 1, 2011, the China National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced a national feed-in tariff (FiT) for solar PV. Although details are still being released, the plan looks like a serious first step toward unleashing significant demand for solar PV in China.
Greece has not emerged from its economic crisis. If the European Union stops signing ” blank cheques” in order to save Greece, many Greeks will start hoping that China soon becomes a lifebuoy to keep them afloat. In the meantime, economic relations between Athens and Bejing keep increasing at a very fast pace, even if relations between the two countries has some friction. From OBC.
If you have not been to Argentina’s Patagonia, you may want to go soon. The Chinese state-owned agribusiness company Beidahuang is about to purchase up to 800,000 acres (320,00 hectares) of privately owned farmland in the Río Negro province.
Robert Kimball of the World Resources Institute (WRI) discusses the risk that China’s water challenges bring to businesses, with supply chain management and energy capacity the tip of the iceberg.
The Chinese, who are keen to have goods move to the European Union move even more easily than they do now, signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Bulgarian government to develop a high speed rail system from the Bulgarian-Turkish border to Sofia.
Rishi Tea, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is one of the first tea companies to embrace fair trade. Its founder, Joshua Kaiser, figured that the same aficionado who enjoyed good wines and had a discerning palate for coffee would enjoy unique varieties of teas available around the world.
Billions of dollars have poured into Clean Development Mechanism projects around the world. What started with a seed fund from the World Bank ten years ago with US$160 million has surged to well over US$7 billion. But not everyone sees this is a positive trend. In fact, critics claim the system, while well intentioned, is open to abuse.