For the fourth consecutive year, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and SAM Group presented the
Sustainability yearbook 2008 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. The
Sustainability yearbook is the world's most comprehensive publication on sustainability and the related challenges and opportunities for companies. In addition, it addresses the current and future challenges for companies in 57 specific industry sectors. SAM Group’s research identifies companies which seize opportunities and manage risks deriving from economic, environmental and social trends better than their peers.
This year's
Sustainability yearbook also presents selected results from SAM's in-house empirical work which strongly suggests that there is a positive, statistically significant correlation between corporate sustainability and financial performance.
The
Sustainability yearbook 2008 also highlights the global challenge posed by water use, as well as a chapter about Eco-design showing how factoring the ecological consequences of a given design (resource consumption, noxious emissions, recovery potential) into product development, integrates the environment into the value chain.
