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James FarrarArchive: October, 2011
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James Farrar
James has more than 15 years of experience working on corporate sustainability issues from both the corporate and NGO campaigning perspective. He has worked directly within the banking (Farm Credit System), aviation (British Airways) and IT (SAP) sectors in the USA and Europe. His campaigning experience includes work at Amnesty International's business engagement programme and at Global Witness, a leading NGO campaigning on the issue of resource revenue transparency especially relating to so called 'conflict resources'.
James's day job is at SAP working within the Sustainability team. You can view James' extended profile on Linkedin and you can follow him on Twitter.About On Sustainability
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US Chamber of Commerce accused of undermining conflict minerals regulation. So who is backing the Chamber?
The US Chamber of Commerce is accused of lobbying to water down regulation to control conflict minerals in the supply chain. But who is supporting the US Chamber on this?
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Microsoft to pressure supply chain on sustainability
Microsoft has announced it will require annual sustainability disclosure from suppliers.
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Cloud Wars: Green & Clean or a Cockroach Motel?
Dreamforce and Oracle Open World surfaced a rhetorical war of corporate responsibility: the clean cloud versus a cloud so compromised on privacy and security it can be characterised as the...
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Conflict minerals: some progress in the Congo?
The US government is kick starting an effort to get a ‘conflict free’ certification program off the ground for electronics manufacturers who sources minerals in the Democratic Republic...
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Is Oracle going green?
With the introduction of some new sustainability solutions and the appointment of a Chief Sustainability Office is Oracle going green?
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Steve Jobs: the anti-Davos, Davos man
Steve Jobs didn’t spend a lot of time trading personal influence with the canape crowd. He didn’t scrub up well to role play CEO as statesman. But then he didn’t need to all that...
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Ethical investors weigh in on HP's sustainability future but is the board strategy yet clear?
Ethical investors weigh in on HP’s strategic priorities for sustainability but is the board yet united behind a common strategy?
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