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The eco-innovation compass was developed by Dow and the World Business Coimcil for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), see Figure 3.4. ... 

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), 12 807 World Directory of Companies, 25 368 World Drug Alerts, 18 226, 236 World Energy Network (WE-NET),... 

Mobility 2030 Meeting the Challenges to Sustainability, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2004, www.wbcsd.org... 

World Business Counsel for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Exploring Sustainable Development Global Scenarios 2000-2050. New York WBCSD, 1997. 

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The WBCSD has a Regional Network3 of fifty-four Business Councils for Sustainable Development (BCSDs), which are mostly located in developing countries such as Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. BCSDs are autonomous and largely operate at the national level. Many BCSDs are engaged in chemicals-related activities. 

The Business Council for Sustainable Development publishes Changing Course. Establishes business interests in promoting SD practices, http //www.wbcsd.ch/... 

Basic Eco-Efficiency Metrics. The above eco-efficiency categories can be captured by a small number of metrics. For illustration, let us consider the set of basic metrics adopted by BRIDGES to Sustainability (Schwarz et al., 2000, 2002), shown in Table 6.2. Informed by the work of NRTEE (1999) and WBCSD (Verfaillie and Bidwell, 2000), the metrics were chosen as ratios. Impacts are placed in the numerators and a measure of output is in the denominator. The denominator can be mass or other unit of product, functional unit, sales revenue, monetary value-added, or a certain measure of societal benefits. Expressing the metrics as ratios allow them to be compared and used in weighing decision alternatives and comparing operational units. Defined in this manner, the lower metrics are better as they reflect lower impacts per unit of value generation. 

World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Reporting Striking the Balance, June 1, 2003a, p. 10. Available at http //www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/ GGFpsq8dGngT5K56sAur/20030106 sdreport.pdf, March 15, 2004. 

In drawing up the guidelines, many aspects of environmental reporting were evaluated. Included was the work of the WBCSD, Deloitte Touche, the CERES, the Council on Economic Priorities (CEP), the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) and the GEMI. 

The WBCSD is a coalition of international companies united by a shared commitment to the environment. It is based in Geneva and started off as the Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD) in 1990 to provide a business perspective on economic growth and sustainable development, prior to the Rio Summit in June 1992. In January 1995, BCSD was merged with the WICE (World Industry Council for the Environment) to form the WBCSD, which is now claimed to be the pre-eminent business voice on sustainable development issues. 

The first concerns the desire to establish a link between environmental performance and financial attributes such as share value. In this respect, the WBCSD supported a study on financing change, which investigated whether financial markets must always encourage a short-term, proht-hrst-and-last mentality, or whether they can reward companies that pay particular attention to their environmental responsibilities. 

In 1998, the WBCSD conducted an international survey of CERs to see how far companies have proceeded with measuring their environmental performance quantitatively, which will be necessary in the context of achieving sustainable development. The conclusion was that although a number of companies were claiming to support the concept of eco-efhciency , defined as the unit of value provided per unit of environmental burden, few seemed to be applying it fully in their CERs. The degree of sophistication with which eco-efhciency was handled and communicated varied greatly from company to company. 

European Chemical Industry Ecology and Toxicity Centre eco-efficiency concept devised by WBCSD (www. 194.209.71.99) European Eco-label Organisation European ERA... 

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