Press Releases Archives: 2012 08
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Press Releases
BSR Conference 2012 Announces New Speakers from Native Organic Products, Social Finance, Manpower
August 28, 2012
San Francisco—August 28, 2012—The newest speakers to join the lineup for the BSR Conference 2012 include Brazil’s Native Organic Products Executive Vice President Leontino Balbo Jr., Social Finance CEO Tracy Palandjian, and ManpowerGroup Corporate and Government Affairs President David Arkless.
BSR Expands Global Operations in Sustainable Business with New Brazil Office
August 15, 2012
San Francisco—August 15, 2012—Global business network and sustainability consultancy BSR has opened a new office in São Paulo, Brazil, expanding its global presence to include a total of eight offices in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.
BSR’s Clean Cargo Group Improves Transparency of Carbon Emissions in Ocean Shipping
August 6, 2012
Paris, France—August 7, 2012—BSR’s Clean Cargo Working Group has released its latest paper revealing average carbon emissions by trade lane for the ocean shipping industry. The release of the emissions data—reported by 13 of the world’s leading ocean container carriers, which represent more than 2,000 individual ships or more than 60 percent of ocean container capacity worldwide—provides the shipping industry with high-quality data for use in carbon footprint calculations.
