Power Sector

UK Power Giants Generating Climate Change
A benchmarking report, accompanying summary and recommendations assessing carbon risk performance and progress of the six largest UK power companies in 2006.
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The Balance of Power – Reducing CO₂ emissions from the UK power sector
A summary of WWF-UK's response to the 2006 Energy Review. In order to inform our submission to the government's Energy Review, WWF-UK commissioned ILEX Energy Consulting to look at three scenarios for carbon dioxide emissions and fuel mix for the UK power sector for 2010, 2016, 2020 and 2025. The report concludes that by 2025 carbon dioxide emissions could be cut by 43-55% from 1990 levels without the need for new nuclear capacity. In contrast, under "business as usual", emissions would fall by just 18%.
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Finance Sector

Shaping the Future of Sustainable Finance – Moving from paper promises to performance
WWF-UK and BankTrack have published this report to help answer difficult questions on how various commercial and investment banks are responding to the challenge of moving towards sustainable finance. The report's primary objective is to review the environmental and social policies adopted by key institutions in the banking sector in September 2005.
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Oil and Gas Sector

Where are all the SEAs? Project finance and strategic environmental assessment of major oil and gas developments
This WWF report looks at the use of strategic environmental assessments (SEAs) in oil and gas developments.
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Media and Entertainment Sector

Through the Looking Glass – Corporate responsibility in the media and entertainment sector
This report is intended to help understand what corporate responsibility means specifically for media and entertainment companies, as well as to shed light on what these companies are doing and will need to do next. As a provocation, at the end of the paper we present a short "media manifesto", rooted in emerging best practice.
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Cross sector: Brand Management and Marketing

Let them eat cake – Satisfying the new consumer appetite for responsible brands
Instead of preaching about the moral responsibility of business to further the goals of sustainability, this report exposes the considerable commercial potential of a new approach to business, based on the provision of more "responsible" mainstream brands. This potential comes from an increasing demand among mainstream consumers for their regular brands to come with environmental and social responsibility "built in".
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Cross sector: Lobbying

Influencing Power – Reducing the conduct and content of corporate lobbying
This report describes the results of a WWF and SustainAbility research project to review how 100 of the world's largest companies report on their lobbying practices.
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Cross sector: Sustainability

To Whose Profit? Building a Business Case for Sustainability
The purpose of this publication is to help managers put sustainability
on the Board agenda as a potential source of competitive advantage and increased shareholder value. The core of the publication (Chapter 5) presents a 'route map' guiding managers through the initial steps in this process – building a business case for sustainability.
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To Whose Profit?(ii): Evolution
WWF-UK has produced this publication to help companies build sustainable strategies and communicate the benefits to investors.
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Cross sector: Timber Procurement

Responsible Purchasing of Forest Products
This guide has been developed by WWF's Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) for use by organisations wishing to develop a responsible programme for the procurement of forest products. The guide lays out a generic approach for the adoption of a responsible purchasing policy and the development of an associated procurement programme.
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