In this short and catchy clip, DuPont CEO Holliday — a past WBCSD Chairman — argues that companies must “take actionable first steps” toward creating sustainable livelihoods, or risk extinction.
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Duration : 0:1:2
Lloyd Timberlake, Director of Special Projects for GrupoNueva S.A. and Peter Woicke, Executive Vice President of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) give their views on whether sustainable livelihoods business can be profitable.
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Duration : 0:1:33
Julio Moura, CEO of GrupoNueva shares the challenges faced by his and other Latin American companies in implementing sustainable livelihoods businesses including, shifting mindset to think of the poor as part of the solution instead of victims; negotiating unfavorable framework conditions and the battle against big scale corruption.
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Related case study: Mobile sales contribute to poverty reduction – GrupoNueva’s Amanco http://www.wbcsd.org/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?ObjectId=MTYxNDk
Duration : 0:2:18
This video illustrates how companies operating in developing countries can act as positive agents of change and contribute to creating better livelihoods.
Duration : 0:7:49
This video illustrates how companies operating in developing countries can act as positive agents of change and contribute to creating better livelihoods.
Duration : 0:7:49
This video illustrates how companies operating in developing countries can act as positive agents of change and contribute to creating better livelihoods.
Duration : 0:7:1
Bertrand Collomb, Chairman of Lafarge comments on the benefits to engaging in sustainable livelihoods projects while laying out some of the obstacles business faces when doing so.
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Related case study: Project Employability – Lafarge India http://www.wbcsd.org/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?type=DocDet&ObjectId=10361
Duration : 0:1:43
Henk de Bruin explains how SL business has become a part of Philips’ strategy and what steps the company has taken to generate ideas around SL business, while recognizing that this investment in their intellectual capital that will deliver bottom line benefits in the near future.
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Related case study: Bringing healthcare services to rural communities – Royal Philips Electronics http://www.wbcsd.org/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?ObjectId=MTc2OTU
Duration : 0:3:47
This video illustrates how companies operating in developing countries can act as positive agents of change and contribute to creating better livelihoods. In addition, views of three business leaders – Rodney Chase (BP), Reuel Khoza (Eskom) and Eugenio Clariond Reyes (Grupo Imsa) — give an insight into what ‘sustainable livelihood’ means to them.
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Duration : 0:1:57
Axel Wenblad, Senior Vice President, Sustainability at Skanska AB and Bart Jan Krouwel, Managing Director Sustainability & Social Innovation at Rabobank Group shed some light on how their companies’ strategies for creating sustainable livelihoods business are different from philanthropy.
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Duration : 0:2:24