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N e w s Books & Reports General GEO Yearbook 2003 Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is UNEP’s flagship publication. GEO Yearbook 2003 is the first in a new annual series of GEO publications that complement the GEO report. These Yearbooks will highlight significant environmental events and achievements during the year (at the global and regional levels) as well as emerging issues. They will also present indicators of progress towards sustainability. GEO Yearbook 2003 includes a section on freshwater and its role in realizing internationally agreed development goals. The entire publication can be downloaded at www.unep.org/geo/yearbook. (2003). UNEP/DEWA (Division of Early Warning and Assessment), PO Box 30552, Nairobi 00100, Kenya, Tel: +254 20 623562; Fax: +254 20 623944; E-mail: geo@unep.org; Internet: www.unep.org/geo/yearbook. GEO Yearbook 2003 can be ordered from Earthprint Ltd., PO Box 119, Stevenage SG1 4TP, UK, Tel.: +44 1438 748 111; Fax: +44 1438 748 844; E-mail: orders@earthprint.com; Internet: www.earthprint.com. Pbk., 76p. ISBN 92-807-2415-0. Also published in French as GEO Annuaire 2003. World Resources 2002-2004: Decisions for the Earth: Balance, Voice and Power This is the tenth in the series of biennial World Resources reports. It contains statistics on environmental, social and economic trends in more than 150 countries. The data collected in World Resources 2002-2004 support the view that better environmental governance is one of the most direct routes to fairer, more sustainable use of natural resources. Results from the Access Initiative (the first attempt to systematically measure governments’ performance in providing access to environmental information, decision-making and justice) are presented. UNEP, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Resources Institute collaborate on the World Resources series. The World Resources database is freely available and is searchable online at www.earthtrends.wri.org. The report is available at www.wri.org/wr2002. There is a CD- ROM version. (2003). Published by the World Resources Institute, 10 G. St., NE, Washington, DC 20002, USA, Tel: +1 202 729 7600; Fax: +1 202 729 7610, Internet: Pbk., 315p. ISBN 1-56973-532-8. World Resources 2002-2004 can be ordered from Earthprint Ltd., PO Box 119, Stevenage SG1 4TP, UK, Tel.: +44 1438 748 111; Fax: +44 1438 748 844; E-mail: orders@earthprint.com; Internet: www.earthprint.com. Also published in Spanish as Recursos Mundiales 2004: Decisiones para la Tierra: Equilibrio, voz y poder. State of the World 2004: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society The 21 st edition of State of the World is, as the introduction says, “once again a mix of progress, setbacks, and missed steps around the world that are affecting society’s environmental and social goals.” This year the focus is on consumerism: how people consume, why they do it, and the impacts of their choices. The “consumer class” has around 1.7 billion members – over a quarter of humanity. Not only does the growing appetite for consumer goods threaten the environment. It also makes it increasingly difficult for the world’s poor to meet their basic needs. Linda Starke, ed. (2004). Worldwatch Institute, 1776 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA, Tel: + 1 202 452 1999; Fax: + 1 202 296 7365; E-mail (media inquiries): sfinkelpearl@worldwatch.org; Internet: www.worldwatch.org. Publications Ordering and Customer Service Center: Worldwatch Institute, PO Box 188, Williamsport, Pennsylvania 17703-9913, USA, Tel: +1 888 544 2303/2076; Fax: +1 570 320 2079; Internet: wwpub@worldwatch.org. Pbk., 245p. ISBN 0-393-32539-3. Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble In Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth, published in 2001, Lester R. Brown argued that the economy is part of the environment – and not the other way around. Plan B makes the case for urgent restructuring of the world economy before the “environmental bubble economy” bursts. (Plan A is business as usual.) “The scope of Plan B has been limited,” Brown explains in the Preface, “so that it will be short enough to be read by busy people… the principle policy recommendations – stabilizing population and stabilizing climate – are central to protecting the diversity of life…If we cannot stabilize population and if we cannot stabilize climate, there is not an ecosystem on earth that we can save.” Lester R. Brown (2003). Earth Policy Institute, 1350 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 403, Washington, DC 20036, USA, Tel: +1 202 496 9290; Fax: + 1 202 496 9325; E-mail: epi@earth-policy.org; Internet: www.earth-policy.org. Published by W.W. Norton & Co., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110, USA, Tel: +1 212 354 5500, Fax: +1 212 869 0856, Internet: www.wwnorton.com. Pbk., 285p. ISBN: 0-393-32523-7. Renewable Bioresources: Scope and Modification for Non-Food Applications This innovatory handbook was produced as part of work aimed at organizing a joint European Masters degree programme on renewable resources. The authors of individual chapters provide overviews of basic issues that need to be addressed with respect to industry’s use of renewable materials. While it is impossible to be an expert in chemistry, biology, biochemistry, agricultural sciences, environmental technology and economics – to say nothing of their complicated interconnections – Renewable Bioresources is intended to encourage users to go deeper into these subjects and find more specific information. Christian V. Stevens with Roland Verhé, eds. (2004). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom, Tel: +44 1243 779 777; Fax: +44 1234 770 620; E-mail: cs-books@wiley.co.uk; Internet: www.wiley.com. Pbk., 310p. ISBN 0-470- 85447-2. (Also available in hardback.) Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment: Towards an Integrated Approach This document provides information and guidance on environmental impact assessment (EIA) and strategic environmental assessment (SEA), with particular application to developing countries and countries whose economies are in transition. It is an update of Environmental Impact Assessment: Issues, Trends and Practice, published by UNEP in 1996. As before, this is a companion volume to the UNEP EIA Training Resource Manual, which was issued in an updated and revised edition in 2002. The two documents may be used separately or together. Hussein Abaza, Ron Bisset and Barry Sadler (2004). UNEP DTIE/ETB (Economics and Trade Branch), 11-13 chemin des Anémones, CH-1219 Geneva, Switzerland, Tel: +41 22 917 82 43; Fax: +41 22 917 80 76; Internet: www.unep.ch/etu. This publication can be ordered from Earthprint Ltd., PO Box 119, Stevenage SG1 4TP, UK, Tel.: +44 1438 748 111; Fax: +44 1438 748 844; E- mail: orders@earthprint.com; Internet: www.earthprint.com. Pbk., 147p. ISBN 92-807-2429-0. 82 ◆ UNEP Industry and Environment April – September 2004
N e w s Measuring Your Company’s Environmental Impact: Templates and Tools for a Complete ISO 14001 Initial Review Originally published in Swedish, Measuring Your Company’s Environmental Impact was designed and written by environmental engineers. It has already been used by consultants and companies in Europe. This step-by-step manual makes available tools for carrying out complete company-wide environmental reviews, as a prerequisite for introducing an environmental management system in accordance with ISO 14001 or the European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS). The accompanying CD-ROM includes: a template for an environmental review; an inventory tool to calculate emissions and the impacts of transportation, energy consumption and other activities; and materials for carrying out an environmental failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA). Matts Zackrisson, Gunnar Bengtsson and Camilla Norberg (2004). Earthscan, 8-12 Camden High St., London, NW1 0JH, United Kingdom, Tel: +44 20 7387 8558; Fax: +44 20 7387 8998; E-mail: earthinfo@earthscan.co.uk; Internet: www.earthscan.co.uk. Pbk. 137p. ISBN 1-84407-054-9. Raising the Bar: Creating Value with the United Nations Global Compact Raising the Bar is a comprehensive reference guide produced by an international team of experts. It responds to the need for practical knowledge (tools, case studies, and other types of information and resources) related to the Global Compact’s 10 principles. The title refers to the situation businesses face when stakeholders “raise the bar” of expected performance to correspond to universal principles. Published to coincide with the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in New York in June. Claude Fussler, Aron Cramer and Sebastian van der Vegt, eds. (2004). Greenleaf Publishing Ltd., Aizlewood Business Centre, Aizlewood’s Mill, Nursery Street, Sheffield S3 8GG, UK, Tel: +44 114 282 4375, Fax: +44 114 282 3476, E-mail: info@greenleaf-publishing.com, Internet: www.greenleaf-publishing.com. Pbk., 236p. ISBN 1-874719-8-29. Corporate Social Opportunity! 7 Steps to Make Corporate Social Responsibility Work for Your Business Businesses need to be made aware of the opportunities that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) provides for developing new products and services, new markets and new business models. Corporate Social Opportunity! proposes a practical seven-step process to help business leaders assess CSR’s impact on their strategies and operations and to discover opportunities in their own companies. Instead of a “bolt on”, CSR can become a valuable “built in”. David Grayson and Adrian Hodges (2004). Greenleaf Publishing (see above). Pbk., ISBN 1874719837. (Also available in hardback.) Eco-efficiency and Beyond: Towards the Sustainable Enterprise This collection of papers developed out of two conferences on eco-efficiency held in Düsseldorf in 1998 and 2001. Eco-efficiency and Beyond looks at eco-efficiency’s past and present and stresses the need for comprehensive uptake of the eco-efficiency concept by business, government and consumers as soon as possible. The challenge of sustainable development will not be met “in slow motion”. Policies that offer companies serious incentives for innovative behaviour are urgently needed. The editors are from the Wuppertal (Germany) Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. Jan-Dirk Seiler-Hausmann, Christa Liedtke and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, eds. Greenleaf Publishing (see above). Hbk., 248p. ISBN 1-874719- 60-8. Learning to Talk: Corporate Citizenship and the Development of the UN Global Compact Learning to Talk is a collection of key writings about the UN Global Compact by some of the leading actors in its development to date. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has contributed the Foreword. In 1999 it was Kofi Annan who first proposed such a compact at the Davos World Economic Forum. Officially launched in July 2001, the Global Compact is a set of nine voluntary UN principles for business covering environmental, human rights and labour issues. A tenth principle, on corruption, was added during the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in New York in June of this year. Publication of Learning to Talk coincided with that meeting. Malcom McIntosh, Sandra Zaddock and Gerog Kell, eds. (2004) Greenleaf Publishing (see above). Hbk., 432p. ISBN 1874719756. Environmental Policy and Technological Innovation: Why Do Firms Adopt or Reject New Technologies? This book demonstrates how behavioural models can be applied to understand better why companies adopt clean technologies. There is an analysis of the findings of a case study on companies located in northern Mexico, where inputs required for production are temporarily imported. The conclusions are relevant to industries in other parts of the world with different modes of operation. The author is Senior Advisor in Science and Technology Policy to the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). Environmental Policy and Technological Innovation is part of the “New Horizons in the Economics of Innovation” series. Carlos Montalvo Corral (2002). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Glensanda House, Montpellier Parade, Cheltenham, Glos GL50 1UA, United Kingdom, Tel: +44 1242 226 934; Fax: +44 1242 262 111; E-mail: info@e-elgar.com; Internet: www. e-elgar.uk. Hbk., 304p. ISBN 1-84064-957-7. The Materiality of Social, Environmental and Corporate Governance Issues to Equity Pricing: 11 Sector Studies by Brokerage House Analysts at the Request of the UNEP Finance Initiative Asset Management Working Group This report summarizes the results of a project conceived and implemented over 14 months in 2003/4 by a public-private partnership between UNEP and a group of 12 asset management firms. The project’s purpose was to explore and document the financial materiality of environmental, social and corporate considerations and criteria as they relate to the investment management of mutual, pension and other institutional funds. Project results show that these funds’ owners and managers may be exposing themselves to unnecessary financial risks (and missing out on opportunities) if they do not consider environmental, social and governance criteria in investment procedures. (2004). UNEP FI (Finance Initiative), International Environment House, 15 chemin des Anémones, CH-1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland, Tel: +41 22 917 8178; Fax: +41 22 796 9240, E- mail: fi@unep.ch; Internet: www.unepfi.net. This publication can be ordered from Earthprint Ltd., PO Box 119, Stevenage SG1 4TP, UK, Tel.: +44 1438 748 111; Fax: +44 1438 748 844; E-mail: orders@earthprint.com; Internet: www.earthprint.com. Pbk., 52p. Values to Value: A Global Dialogue on Sustainable Finance The UNEP Finance Initiative’s Values to Value (V2V) report was published just before the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in June. Designed as a living document, or a “work in progress”, it is a ring binder in which papers and conference proceedings are collected. Additional documents in the same format will be made available to users in the future. Thematic sections include “Sustainability Management, Reporting and Indicators”, “Civil Society Perspectives on Sustainable Finance”, “Asset Management”, “Climate Change” and regional initiatives. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the report in pdf format, as well as many other related docu- UNEP Industry and Environment April – September 2004 ◆ 83
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