Business in the Community

Business in the Community is a unique movement in the UK of 700 member companies, with a further 1600 participating in its programs and campaigns. It operates through a network of 98 local business-led partnerships, as well as working with 45 global partners. Its purpose is to inspire, challenge, engage and support business in continually improving its positive impact on society.

http://www.bitc.org.uk

Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) provides a secretariat for the world’s largest institutional investor collaboration on the business implications of climate change. CDP represents an efficient process whereby many institutional investors collectively sign a single global request for disclosure of information on greenhouse gas emissions. CDP then sends this request to the FT500 largest companies in the world, and 300 of the 500 largest corporations in the world currently report their emissions through this website.

http://www.cdproject.net/about.asp

COAL21

Initiated by the Australian Coal Industry, COAL21 is a program aimed at fully realising the potential of advanced technologies to reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions associated with the use of coal. The program will also explore coal's role as a primary source of hydrogen to power the hydrogen-based economy of the future. The program is a collaborative partnership between Federal and State governments, the coal and electricity generation industries and the research community.

http://www.coal21.com.au

Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC)

CO2CRC researches the logistic, technical, financial and environmental issues of storing industrial carbon dioxide emissions in deep geological formations. The CRC also researches the capture and separation of carbon dioxide from industrial systems.

http://www.co2crc.com.au

Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development (CCSD)

CCSD brings together the majority of Australia’s coal research skill base as well as experts in sustainability.The vision of CCSD is to optimise the contribution of coal to a sustainable future, and its research is underpinned by a focus on the three dimensions of sustainability - economic, social and environmental.

http://www.ccsd.biz

Council for Responsible Jewellery

The Council for Responsible Jewellery Practices (CRJP) was founded in May 2005 with 14 members from a cross-section of the diamond and gold jewellery supply chain, from mine to retail. Council members believe that a coordinated worldwide approach to addressing ethical, social and environmental challenges will drive continuous improvement throughout the jewellery industry to the benefit of stakeholders.

http://www.responsiblejewellery.com/

Dow Jones Sustainability World Indexes

The Dow Jones Sustainability World Indexes (DJSI) consist of more than 300 companies that represent the top 10 per cent of the leading sustainability companies in 60 industry groups in the 34 countries covered by the biggest 2500 companies in the Dow Jones Global Indexes.

http://www.sustainability-index.com

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

The UK Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, September 2002. It aims to increase transparency in transactions between governments and companies within extractive industries.

http://www.eitransparency.org

FTSE4GOOD

Launched in 2001, the FTSE4Good Index series has been designed to measure the performance of companies that meet globally recognised corporate responsibility standards and to facilitate investment in those companies. The series covers four markets: US, Global, UK and Europe. Each market consists of both a benchmark and tradable index.

http://www.ftse4good.com/./ftse4good/index.jsp

FutureGen

FutureGen is an initiative to build the world's first integrated sequestration and hydrogen production research power plant. The US$1 billion project is intended to create the first zero-emissions fossil fuel plant. When operational, the prototype will be the cleanest fossil fuel fired power plant in the world.

http://www.kansasenergy.org/futuregen/info.html

Global Mining Initiative (GMI)

The GMI brought together many of the world's largest mining, metals and minerals companies. This leadership exercise aimed to ensure that an industry that is essential to the wellbeing of a changing world is responsive to global needs and challenges.The Initiative had three main strands: creation of an industry association that could focus on sustainable development in the mining, metals and minerals industry; an independent analysis of the key issues facing these industries; and a global conference on mining, metals and sustainable development in May 2002.

http://www.globalmining.com

Global Reporting Initiative

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a multi-stakeholder process and independent institution whose mission is to develop and disseminate globally applicable Sustainability Reporting Guidelines.

http://www.globalreporting.org

Green LeadTM Project

Green LeadTM is the use of best practices in all aspects of mining, transport, manufacture, use and reuse of lead in order to minimise people and planet exposure to lead.The concept is based on taking a 'whole of lifecycle' approach to lead and its impacts on people and the environment and to analyse all of them.

http://www.greenlead.com

International Aluminium Institute (IAI)

The IAI is the global forum of aluminium producers dedicated to the development and wider use of aluminium as a competitive and uniquely valuable material. The IAI in all its activities supports the concept that aluminium is a material that lends itself to improving world living standards and developing a better and sustainable world environment.

http://www.world-aluminium.org

International Chromium Development Association (ICDA)

The ICDA was set up in Paris in 1990 and now has 74 members from 21 countries on 5 continents. It provides a watching brief on regulatory issues, consistent responses to specific HSE issues, hazard and risk management information and reviews of available data by independent institutions. It also collects and disseminates global production data, trade movements and the latest industry news.

http://www.chromium-asoc.com

International Copper Association

The International Copper Association, Ltd. (ICA) is the leading organization for promoting the use of copper worldwide. The Association's 37 member companies represent about 80 per cent of the world's refined copper output and are among the largest copper producers, copper alloy fabricators, and wire and cable companies in the world.

http://www.copperinfo.com/index1.html

International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM)

ICMM members offer strategic industry leadership towards achieving continuous improvements in sustainable development performance in the mining, minerals and metals industry. ICMM provides a common platform for the industry to share challenges and responsibilities as well as to engage with key constituencies on issues of common concern at the international level, based on science and principles of sustainable development.

http://www.icmm.com

ISO 14001 - Environmental Management Systems

The ISO 14000 family consists of standards relating to environmental management systems and others which are specific tools for realising environmental policy and achieving objectives and targets.

http://www.iso.org

Johannesburg Stock Exchange Socially Responsible Investment Index

The JSE Socially Responsible Investment Index was launched in 2004. This was the culmination of an extensive consultation and development process, which the JSE has guided over the past year as a means of helping to focus the debate on triple bottom line practices in South Africa.

http://ftse.jse.co.za

Minerals Council of Australia

The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) represents Australia's exploration, mining and minerals processing industry, nationally and internationally, in its contribution to sustainable development and society.

http://www.minerals.org.au

Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development

Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) was an independent two-year process of consultation and research with the objective of understanding how to maximise the contribution of the mining and minerals sector to sustainable development at the global, national, regional and local levels.The Project began in April 2000 and was designed to produce a Final Report, a series of Working Papers, and to create a dialogue process capable of being carried forward into the future. MMSD was managed by the International Institute for Environment and Development in London, UK, under contract to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The project was initiated by WBCSD and supported by the Global Mining Initiative (GMI).

http://www.iied.org/mmsd

Nickel Development Institute

The Nickel Development Institute, whose members represent over 70 per cent of current world production, generates and communicates knowledge required to support safe and sustainable production, use and reuse of nickel.

http://www.nidi.org

OHSAS 18001 - Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems

OHSAS 18001 was developed to be compatible with the ISO 9001 (Quality) and ISO 14001 (Environmental) management systems standards, in order to facilitate the integration of quality, environmental and occupational health and safety management systems by organisations. The specification gives requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, to enable an organisation to control its OH&S risks and improve its performance. It does not state specific OH&S performance criteria, nor does it give detailed specifications for the design of a management system.

http://www.osha-bs8800-ohsas-18001-health-and-safety.com/ohsas-18001.htm

SA 8000 - Social Accountability Standard

Social Accountability International (SAI) is a US-based, non-profit organisation dedicated to the development, implementation and oversight of voluntary verifiable social accountability standards. SAI's first social accountability system, SA8000, is a way for retailers, brand companies, suppliers and other organisations to maintain just and decent working conditions throughout the supply chain.

http://www.cepaa.org

South African Chamber of Mines

The Chamber of Mines of South Africa is a prominent industry employers' organisation which exists to serve its members and promote their interests in the South African mining industry.

http://www.bullion.org.za/welcome.htm

US-UK Voluntary Principles on Security and
Human Rights

Throughout 2000, representatives from the US Department of State and the UK. Foreign and Commonwealth Office met with oil, mining and energy companies, together with human rights, labour and corporate responsibility groups, to develop a set of Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights. These principles are designed to provide practical guidance that will strengthen human rights safeguards in company security arrangements in the extractive sector. They are the basis of a global standard for the extractive sector. The principles are the first set of guidelines of their sort for this sector.

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/2931.htm

United Nations Environment Program

The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides information for policy and action to conserve the living world. Programs concentrate on species, forests, protected areas, marine, mountains and fresh waters, plus habitats affected by climate change such as polar regions. The relationship between trade and the environment and the wider aspects of biodiversity assessment is also addressed.

http://www.unep-wcmc.org

United Nations Global Compact

The United Nations Global Compact is an international initiative that brings together companies with UN agencies, labour organisations and civil society to support ten principles covering human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.

http://www.unglobalcompact.org

United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

http://www.un.org/rights

World Bank Operational Directive on Involuntary Resettlement

The World Bank directive involuntary resettlement states that project planning must avoid and minimise involuntary resettlement, and that if people lose their homes or livelihoods as a result of Bank-financed projects, they should have their standard of living improved, or at least restored.

http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/enviro.nsf/Content/ESRP/$FILE/OD430_InvoluntaryResettlement.pdf

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a coalition of 175 international companies united by a shared commitment to sustainable development. Its mission is to provide business leadership as a catalyst for change towards sustainable development and to promote the role of eco-efficiency, innovation and corporate social responsibility.

http://www.wbcsd.ch

World Conservation Union (IUCN)

The World Conservation Union is the world's largest conservation network bringing together government agencies, non-government organisations, scientists and experts from 181 countries in a worldwide partnership. The Union's mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.

http://www.iucn.org

World Health Organisation

The World Health Organisation is the United Nations' specialised agency for health. Established in 1948, its objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

http://www.who.int