{"id":3309,"date":"2009-10-26T14:40:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T13:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/unilever-ms-top-environmental-firms\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T14:22:41","slug":"unilever-ms-top-environmental-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/unilever-ms-top-environmental-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Unilever, M&#038;S top environmental firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warc.com\/News\/TopNews.asp?ID=25857\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"091103_unepfi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/091103_unepfi.jpg\" title=\"091103_unepfi.jpg\" alt=\"091103_unepfi.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant, and Marks &amp; Spencer<strong>,<\/strong> the British retail chain, are among the companies with the most developed environmental policies, and which are also making the most effective use of these activities to differentiate their brands, a UN report has found. The <em>Linking Shareholder and Natural Value<\/em> study was produced by the UN&#8217;s <em>Environment Programme&#8217;s Finance Initiative<\/em>, conservation charity <em>Fauna &amp; Flora<\/em><em>International<\/em> and a business school in Brazil. It assessed 31 firms across a number of industries, including some of the world&#8217;s biggest multinationals, and found that 65% were incorporating matters such as biodiversity, ecology and sustainability (BES) into their marketing campaigns. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warc.com\/News\/TopNews.asp?ID=25857\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global |  Company &#8211; Ethical Quote link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=6\" target=\"_blank\">Unilever<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=13\" target=\"_blank\">Marks &amp; Spencer<\/a> | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warc.com\/News\/TopNews.asp?ID=25857\" target=\"_blank\">Warc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant, and Marks &amp; Spencer, the British retail chain, are among the companies with the most developed environmental policies, and which are also making the most effective use of these activities to differentiate their brands, a UN report has found. The Linking Shareholder and Natural Value study was produced by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,38],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-marks-spencer","tag-unilever","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}