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PARIS, FRANCE December 11, 2006--Leading investors worldwide must embed environmental thinking in the heart of their property investment portfolios if the financial services sector is to play a pivotal role in halting climate change, the United Nations Environment Programme ...

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 2006--Dole Food Company, Inc. today announced the settlement of 16 of the 25 U.S. lawsuits by foreign farm workers who claim injuries from alleged exposure more than 20 years ago to the agricultural chemical DBCP in coun...

BOSTON, MA December 8, 2006-- International relief and development organization Oxfam America today congratulated Dr. Mohammed Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank on the eve of his receiving this year's Nobel Peace prize at a gala ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden this com...

MUMBAI/BOSTON, MA, December 8, 2006--Microfinance pioneer ACCION® International today announced a strategic partnership with YES BANK - one of India's top-three, private-sector banks - to launch YES MICROFINANCE INDIA, a specialized division of YES BANK focused on dev...

BASEL, December 8, 2006 - At the 8th annual symposium of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, international experts discussed the role of development cooperation in today's and tomorrow's world. While the morning was devoted to a critical assessment of...

WASHINGTON, DC - December 7, 2006 - Five years ago, World Vision and other humanitarian organizations urged diamond wholesalers and retailers to stop the sale of so-called "conflict diamonds" - stones mined illegally and sold to fuel wars in Africa.

Five y...

December 7, 2006 - For the third consecutive year, the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) has named PotashCorp the winner of its Overall Award of Excellence for Corporate Reporting. PotashCorp is the first company to receive this award in three consecutive ye...

WOONSOCKET RI, December 7, 2006: The CVS/pharmacy Charitable Trust, the private foundation managed by CVS Corporation, announced today that it has awarded more than $5 million in grant funds to non-profit organizations across the U.S. for programs serving child...

WASHINGTON, DC - When 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Sunday, December 10, what is expected to be one of the largest global viewing audiences in the ceremony's history will watch via satellit...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 2006--Green Star Products, Inc. (OTC:GSPI) recently announced that it has signed an agreement with De Beers Fuel Limited of South Africa to build 90 biodiesel reactors. The first reactor was delivered (by air freight) on November 15, 200...