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The Brookings Institution
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06/29/09
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The need to renew America's economy, foster its energy security, and respond to global climate change compels the transformation of U.S. energy policy. The federal government should establish a national network of regionally based Energy Discovery-Innovation Institutes to serve as the hubs of a distributed research network linking the nation's best scientists, engineers, and facilities.
Organizations have recently sharpened their focus on sustainability, primarily in response to consumer and stakeholder expectations. However, most lack the information required to make these strategic choices.
Stockholm Environment Institute
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05/20/09
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So constrained is the global carbon budget -- global emissions must peak and start a precipitous decline in the next decade -- that it is too late to talk of emissions reductions in Annex I countries alone. It is now necessary to secure significant cuts in emissions in the growing nations of the developing world. And yet, even in the burgeoning Chinese and Indian economies, there is still huge poverty. This is the crux of the current climate impasse.
The emergence in our species of brains capable of mental worlds and self-awareness has paradoxically produced both the science that reveals our biological history, and the dreams of perfection that keep such imaginary notions as "Race" and racism alive.
Christine Bader
Stanford Social Innovation Review
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04/29/09
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According to the nonprofit Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, only 156 companies in the world have published human rights policies. Compare that number to the thousands that have jumped on the bandwagon to develop corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports.
The neoclassical approach to international trade is based on the hypothesis that commerce can be a powerful tool to drive the economic growth and development. However, Latin America has started to look again in the direction of active industrial policy instruments and to reconsider the potentialities of those policies as tools for structural change.
It is important to look at the federal government's actions, positive and negative, in its relatively new war against human trafficking in America. Many federal officials have taken on the task of rooting out and prosecuting traffickers, as well as coordinating with service providers and victim advocates providing care for survivors.
James Boyce
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts Amherst
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03/19/09
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Measures of corporate environmental justice performance can be a valuable tool in efforts to promote corporate social responsibility and to document systematic patterns of environmental injustice. This paper develops such a measure based on the extent to which toxic air emissions from industrial facilities disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minorities and low-income people.
Thomas Palley
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts Amherst
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03/19/09
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This Working Paper reexamines the issue of international financial capital mobility, which has become today's economic orthodoxy. The policy discussion is often framed in terms of an impossible trinity, ignoring possibilities for coordinated monetary policy and exchange rates, and for managed capital flows.
Despite numerous efforts to bring about a clear and unbiased definition of CSR, there is still some confusion as to how CSR should be defined. In this paper, five dimensions of CSR are developed through an analysis of existing CSR definitions.
New America Foundation
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03/19/09
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Many communities in the United States face devastation from the current housing crisis, but communities served by Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) have been hit harder than most. This is particularly distressing since many of these communities were brought back to health over the past 30 years through the diligent, consistent, respectful efforts of CDFIs and other community financial institutions, and their customers, clients, and partners.
This IBM Global Innovations Outlook report on water discusses the necessity of broader data collection in the future, the ways in which the costs of collecting that data can be borne, and how water will need to be allocated and priced in the years to come.
Dean Baker,
Radhika Balakrishnan,
Nilufer Cagatay,
Diane Elson,
Gerald Epstein,
Stephany Griffith-Jones,
Caren Grown,
Jose Antonio Ocampo,
Thomas Palley,
Robert Pollin
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts Amherst
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03/16/09
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A group of progressive economists met on November 21, 2008, at the New School for Social Research in New York to develop macroeconomic and financial policies for economic revival that can solve the short-term crisis and help put the economy on a sustainable path toward widely shared prosperity. This statement of principles evolved from that discussion.
Radhika Balakrishnan,
Gerald Epstein,
Robert Pollin,
Stephany Griffith-Jones,
Jose Antonio Ocampo
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts Amherst
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03/16/09
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The authors outline a group of feasible policy initiatives that can be taken by the Obama administration and coordinated globally to put people first, make the transition to a greener economy, and place front and center the important roles government and social management of markets must play to restore health, stability, and fairness to the nation's and world's economies.
The Obama Administration has provided new leadership for tackling climate change. Yet with the limits of international trade rules, how can an effective cap and trade policy be crafted? Kevin M. Dempsey explains the complicated consequences of discriminating against imports based on carbon emissions.
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