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European Investment Environmental and Social Handbook

Environmental and Social Practices and Standards 2 FOREWORD The promotion of sustainable development -in particular the protection and enhancement of biodiversity, the fight against climate change and the respect of human rights -underpins EIB's lending strategy and objectives. An overarching document, the EIB Statement on Environmental and Social Principles and Standards, sets the policy context for the protection of the environment and human well-being. This framework promotes the EU approach to environmental and social issues, and is aligned with international best practice.

Environmental Sustainability in Emerging Markets

Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance

Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance takes a fresh and global approach to issues of corporate social responsibility, regulation, governance, and sustainability. It encompasses such issues as: environmental sustainability and managing the resources of the world; geopolitics and sustainability; global markets and their regulation; governance and the role of supranational bodies; sustainable production and resource acquisition; society and sustainability. Although primarily a business and management series, it is interdisciplinary and includes contributions from the social sciences, technology, engineering, politics, philosophy, and other disciplines. It focuses on the issues at a meta-level, and investigates the ideas, organisation, and infrastructure required to address them. The series is grounded in the belief that any global consideration of sustainability must include such issues as governance, regulation, geopolitics, the environment, and economic activity in combination to recognise the issues and develop solutions for the planet. At present such global meta-analysis is rare as current research assumes that the identification of local best practice will lead to solutions, and individual disciplines act in isolation rather than being combined to identify truly global issues and solutions.

Practices of social and environmental responsibility adopted by financial institutions

2017

Nowadays, there is a global pressure for agencies with responsibilities in public investment to evaluate their policies and impacts in terms of the economic, social and environmental dimensions, avoiding supporting projects that pose risks to these aspects, thereby making it possible to improve the quality of life of the populations and long-term economic stability. The objective of this study was to verify the guidelines that guide the socio-environmental responsibility policies (SERP) of Brazilian financial institutions. The research was based on the analysis of sustainability reports of development agencies and development banks. The socio-environmental policies of the institutions were also analyzed under the light of the resolution of the National Monetary Council that regulates these issues. It was possible to verify that most financial institutions have socio-environmental policies as a result of the regulation that determines the mandatory nature of such policies. Indeed, mo...

Hyperion Economic Journal Environmental Economy and Management in the Context of Sustainable Development-Conceptual Approaches Oana Chindriș-Văsioiu, Madalina Tocan 28-33 Risks and Opportunities for European and National Development during the Post-Crisis-the Catalyst Role of Labour Market ORGANI...

2016

The article addresses the main responsibilities of audit committees within organizations, starting from the need for knowledge and understanding of the organization by all members of the audit committee, which must consider both internal factors and external factors. Among internal factors, the organization's internal control system is one of the key elements in the financial reporting process, the concern of maintaining an appropriate control environment. Audit committee members should ensure that management gives the organization a "bon ton", "leading tone", developing an organizational culture that promotes the attitude of compliance and internal control findings and conclusions which help to provide default quality of financial reporting. Good practice issues of Anglo-Saxon and internal control assessment tools for organizations are presented further. Particular attention is paid to risk management and specifically the risk of fraud by the media appetite for such issues can easily affect the organization's brand. The second part of the article discusses the influences of financial failures of recent decades on corporate governance system of organizations in the Anglo-Saxon environment. Particular attention is paid to how the audit committees, these "living consciences" of organizations have adapted their roles and behavior to capture, monitor and influence the overall management culture of organizations.

Comparison of Country Risk, Sustainability and Economic Safety Indices

Verslas: teorija ir praktika, 2014

Country risk, sustainability an economic safety are becoming more important in the contemporary economic world. The aim of this paper is to present the importance of comparison formalisation of country risk, sustainability, and economic safety indices for strategic alignment. The work provides an analysis on the relationship between country risk, sustainability an economic safety in EU countries, based on statistical data. Investigations and calculations of rankings provided by Euromoney Country Risk Index, European Economic Sustainability Index as well as for Economic Security Index were made and the results of EU country ranking based on three criteria were provided. Furthermore, the data for the Baltic States was summarised and the corresponding index of consistency for random judgments was evaluated.