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World Bank withdraws loan to Brazilian cattle giant
Investment driving Amazon destruction and fuelling climate change
 The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank, has withdrawn a USD 90 million loan to Brazil's cattle giant Bertin. The loan was used for the company to further expand into the Amazon region, which was causing destruction of the rainforest and fuelling global climate change.
Innovation for sustainability - The crisis as opportunity
Women in Europe for a Common Future celebrates its 15 year anniversary and invites you to a debate with global and local leaders in sustainability
 All over the world people are trying to improve the world they live in. Andy sells hours of solar energy light to the poor in Laos. Rostom from Georgia makes ceramic toilet pots for ecosanitation and produces biogas from manure and waste from a nearby brewery. Elmira provides microcredit loans for women in rural Kyrgyzstan, who reinvest gains in new ecological toilets and Ela's Polish farmers are proud of their newly established producer-consumer cooperations who try hard to keep old apple varieties alive. WECF - Women in Europe for a Common Future - brings all those people together on Wednesday, June 10, during the Anniversary Conference "Innovation for sustainability - The crisis as opportunity" in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Amsterdam to become most energy-saving city of Europe
Amsterdam Smart City unites businesses, governments and end-users to make efficient use of energy
 Yesterday the first European Smart City was launched by alderman Marijke Vos and Director Liander Peter Molengraaf. Amsterdam Smart City is an initiative of grid operator Liander and AIM (Amsterdamse Innovatie Motor) to contribute to the ambition of making Amsterdam the most energy-saving city of Europe.
Climate change odds much worse than thought
New analysis shows warming could be double previous estimates
 The most comprehensive modeling yet carried out on the likelihood of how much hotter the Earth's climate will get in this century shows that without rapid and massive action, the problem will be about twice as severe as previously estimated six years ago - and could be even worse than that.
Timely Action: Global Compact Launches Reporting Guidance on Corruption
Corruption remains one of the most challenging topics for companies
 A task force of the Global Compact Working Group on Anti-Corruption has developed a guidance document that allows for thorough and consistent reporting of anti-corruption matters across companies. In the coming weeks, a field test will be conducted on an anonymous basis to enhance user-friendliness and usefulness of the tool.
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