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1 June 2005
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The Social Responsibility of Multinational Enterprises in Developing Countries - Opportunities and Risks
Research on socially responsible behaviour of multinationals in developing countries.
Client: KPMG Sustainability
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1 March 2005
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Sustainable and profitable exploitation of natural forests in Brazil
Research into sustainable and profitable exploitation of natural forests in Brazil.
Client: Precious Woods Europe
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6 April 2005
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Sustainability of international investments in developing countries
Client: KPMG Sustainability
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1 September 2004
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Private financing of sustainably managed forestry projects
Research into private financing of sustainably managed forestry projects.
Client: DOEN Foundation
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1 April 1999
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Computers and their pretext
Research into the environmental effects of computer production.
Client: Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie)
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3 November 2008
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FSC and financial institutions
FSC Netherlands together with Profundo talks with financial institutions (banks, insurers and pension funds) about their possibilities to support the FSC-inititative. In May 2007 ING netherlands and pension fund PME decided to use only FSC-paper. Besides that PME uses FSC as a criteria for its investments in woods. Last November the Dutch governmental pensionfund ABP also decided to shift to FSC-paper totally from 2009 onwards.
Client: FSC Netherlands
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8 February 2008
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Potential mining cases for a campaign on binding rules
For a campaign of Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) different cases are discussed to show the need of binding regulation concerning social and environmental criteria for companies who invest outside Europe. The cases concern the oil and gas sector, agriculture and forestry.
Client: Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie)
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15 December 2009
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Soy Barometer 2009
A study of the Dutch Soy Coalition - consisting of 10 Dutch development and environmental organizations - shows that in 2008 only 4% responsible soy was processed in the Netherlands. This is the outcome of the report Soja Barometer 2009, based on research by Profundo. Following this the Dutch Soy Coalition urges supermarkets, food industry and its suppliers, to concrete action and expects a substantial increase of responsible soy products. The Soy Barometer will be released again after 2 years.
Client: Dutch Soy Coalition
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18 June 2008
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Exclusion as an instrument of responsible investment
Workshop about exclusion as an instrument of social responsible investment policy at the VBDO Seminar of June 18, 2008.
Client: Association of Investors for Sustainable Development (VBDO)
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10 April 2009
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50 Companies with a large Forest Footprint
In this report 50 companies with a major global forest footprint are selected. The companies are not belonging to the Fortune Global 500, but nevertheless are leading producers in five sectors which are known to have a significant impact on forests worldwide. These sectors are: forestry worldwide, oilpalm in Southeast Asia and elsewhere, and soy,beef and bio-ethanol in South America.
Client: Global Canopy Programme
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6 March 2009
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Researching and assessing the fairness of food products.
Powerpoint presentation about the methodology and de sources for research, their relevance, priorities, weak links and criteria. Also short term and long term goals have been discussed.
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23 March 2009
Cocoa, Fruits, Palm oil, Pork, Potato, Poultry, Rice, Soy, Sugar, Sustainable management, Tobacco, Vegetables
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Assessment of priority issues for FairFood
Suggestions on the priority of issues concernign several food products. These issues focus for example on corruption, child labour, health or air pollution.
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2 September 2008
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Financing of fossil fuels and renewable energy by Canadian banks
This report makes an assessment of the roles played by the top five Canadian bank groups (Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, TD Bank, TMO and CIBC) and by two smaller banks (Desjardins Bank and Vancity Group/Citizens Bank) in the financing of renewable energy and oil,gas and coal production worldwide.
Client: Rainforest Action Network
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3 February 2010
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Options for company regulation on CSR
This policy note describes a number of innovative regulatory options to ensure that Dutch companies, as well as their subsidiaries and their suppliers in foreign countries, will not be (jointly) responsible for severe breaches of human rights and excessive damage to the environment.
Client: Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie)
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30 November 2009
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Dutch CDM projects in the palm oil sector
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the Clean Development Mechanism projects executed in the palm oil sector in Malaysia and Indonesia which are approved by the Dutch government.
Client: Greenpeace Netherlands
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2 July 2009
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Fair Banking Guide, 2nd update
The website of the Dutch Fair Banking Guide (www.eerlijkebankwijzer.nl) enables bank customers to check wether their bank has a good policy on various important social and environmental issues. Different banks can also be compared on their policies. The aim of the project is to stimulate social responsible investing by Dutch banks. Profundo researched the report on which the website is based.
Client: Amnesty International Netherlands, FNV Mondiaal, Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie), Oxfam Novib
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1 October 2009
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Fair Banking Guide, 3rd update
The website of the Dutch Fair Banking Guide (www.eerlijkebankwijzer.nl) enables bank customers to check wether their bank has a good policy on various important social and environmental issues. Different banks can also be compared on their policies. The aim of the project is to stimulate social responsible investing by Dutch banks. Profundo wrote researched the report on which the website is based.
Client: Amnesty International Netherlands, FNV Mondiaal, Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie), Oxfam Novib
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11 December 2008
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Evaluation of the sustainable investmentpolicy of PNO Media
It is PNO Media's ambition to be in the lead when it comes to sustainable investments and ongoing improvement of her policy. In this report PNO Media's strong points will be pointed out, but also the points that can be improved and recommendations ceoncerning her own Code Sustainable Investments and recommendations concerning the implementation.
Client: PNO Trust Media
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