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Green Investing–The Gold Rush

Green investing is growing up. Previously the province of a small number of investors who chased an even smaller number of companies, the market for environmental technology has expanded dramatically in recent years. And it has captured investors' wallet share…

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Internet firms agree to ‘code of conduct’ in China

Just days before the Olympic torch will reach Beijing, Internet leaders Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft say they are close to an agreement on a code of conduct for doing business in China and other countries that censor the Internet.Sen. Dick…

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CAC 40 cherche femmes… désespérément

Sanctionnée pour une fu­sion qui a mal tourné ? Remerciée pour son cours de Bourse malmené ? Pat Russo, la directrice générale d'Alcatel-Lucent depuis le rapprochement des deux entités en décembre 2006, ne passera pas l'hiver à  la tàªte de…

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Banking on Sustainability

The past decade has seen a radical shift from viewing banks as far-removed from social and environmental impacts, to recognizing banks as the fulcrum of financing, and thus a key lever for achieving sustainability. The 2003 launch of the Equator…

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Monsanto launches anti-child labour project in Gujarat

Monsanto, a global agricultural products company, has successfully implemented anti-child labour programmes in Gujarat, said a top company official here Thursday.“We have pledged over Rs.110 million for the programme from 2006 till date,” Monsanto India senior manager-public affairs Christopher Samuel…

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Ferrari to slash sports cars’ carbon emissions

Sports car manufacturer Ferrari intends to cut its vehicles’ greenhouse gas emissions by nearly half and is working on developing hybrid vehicles, the company president said Saturday.”We want to reduce our CO2 emissions by 40 percent between now and 2012,”…

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…And the worst polluters

A record number of industrial sites across Scotland have been named and shamed by the government's green watchdog for failing to curb pollution risks.The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has fingered 25 sites for their poor performances in 2007. They…

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