Written evidence submitted by Tom Burke, Chair of E3G When we met the other week I offered to write to you and set out some of my concerns about the regulatory coherence provisions of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. There […]
THE FRAGILE CITY AND THE RISK NEXUS
Speech: The launch of the BBC’s internal sustainability action plan – ‘The Difference’
Tom Burke’s political commentary: The risks that mining can’t dig its way out of
ENDS Report 429, p. 52, October 2010. With its big environmental impacts and need for huge upfront investments, the global mining industry needs political and policy stability more than ever before. I was in Western Australia in early October. I had been invited to speak at the Minerals Council of […]
Tom Burke’s political commentary: corporate culture, risk and responsibility: navigating the abyss
Mining in the twenty first century
Published in Rio Tinto’s Review magazine, in February 2008. Mining coastal dunes for mineral sands is one of the most environmentally controversial of all forms of mining as the public furores over Saint Lucia and Madagascar make clear. Yet, as can clearly be seen at Richard’s Bay, the environmental footprint of […]
Climate Risk
Performance and value
Published in Environmental Finance, in October 2005. A constellation of factors have led to environmental and social performance becoming an increasingly important factor in shaping a company’s value. This places the issue of how to assess that performance much higher on the corporate agenda. The first of those factors is […]
Corporate Social Responsibility debate with Joel Bakan
Corporate responsibility and accountability
Published in The Observer, in April 2003. Vultures are ugly birds. A powerful evolutionary logic seems to have ensured that form followed function with an uncanny precision. The sight of a large number of British and American companies squabbling over who will get the choicest pickings from the not quite […]