Publications

Read our point of view on issues related to Corporate Responsibility, and see what PwC is doing to demonstrate responsible leadership.

	10Minutes on combating corruption 10Minutes on Combating Corruption discusses the increase in prosecutions and fines being brought under the FCPA, the spread of UNCAC regulations, and the importance of developing an anti-corruption compliance strategy. It also discusses how to safely expand into foreign markets by conducting forensic due diligence and utilizing corporate intelligence.
	Transportation & logistics 2030 Transportation & logistics 2030 represents a series of Delphi studies on the future of the industry. The first issue is a multi-faceted analysis of the ramifications of energy scarcity and its impact on the design of future supply chains.
	View magazine, fall 2009 This issue features: innovation, cloud computing, corporate social responsibility, and an interview with former US Secretary of State Condaleezza Rice on the challenges of her past and future.
	Carbon Disclosure Project 2009 The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), to which PwC has been appointed global advisor and report writer, and now in its seventh year, aims to provide investors with a unique analysis of how the worlds largest companies are responding to climate change.
	Board Governance Series, vol. 13 This issue features: innovation, cloud computing, corporate social responsibility, and an interview with former US Secretary of State Condaleezza Rice on the challenges of her past and future.
	Managing tomorrow's people: How the downturn will change the future of work This PwC report offers a future-based scenario of how three fictitious organisations emerged from the current crisis - specifically in terms of their people strategies. The overall conclusion is that, as global economies start to stabilise, companies need to assess whether their people plans - which include the ways people are recruited, rewarded, retained, incentivised, trained and retired - are fit for the future.
	World Business Summit on Climate Change: Summary report for policymakers In May 2009, over 500 business leaders from 40 countries met with leading experts, government officials and NGO representatives at the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen. Business leaders not only presented a strong message to governments to achieve a robust climate treaty but also provided specific recommendations. At the Summit, PwC's Global CEO chaired the working group on carbon markets, and was a panelist on a number of plenary sessions and side events addressing the role of business in responding to climate change. PwC also prepared the following summary report to policymakers with the Copenhagen Climate Council.
	Reporting and disclosure: The US Environmental Protection Agency’s mandatory reporting rule for greenhouse gases This publication provides an outline of the EPA's proposed rule and potential implications to US companies.
	10Minutes on sustainable cost reduction PwC's insights on intelligent and sustainable cost reduction. Companies must simultaneously tackle both cost reduction and the company's cost management and control in order to realize enduring change to spend.

	Cleantech comes of age: Findings from the MoneyTree report Venture capitalists bullish on investing in this industry sector.

	Cleantech Nation: Cleantech playing a central role in the national recovery agenda Cleantech industries are poised to benefit as an infrastructure play and job-growth driver in President Barack Obama’s push for a new energy economy, boosting opportunities for cleantech investors, producers and adopters.

	Climate change: Carbon countdown A survey of executive opinion on climate change in the countdown to a carbon economy.

	Corporate responsibility: Our strategy / 09 There are currently 30,054 partners and staff in the US firm. Together, we can make a difference for the marketplace, our people, the communities and the environment.

	Empowering women to empower the earth This paper explores the interconnectedness between gender equality and sustainability along four possible pathways. Many women are stuck in a vicious web of poverty, high fertility, poor health, environmental degradation and lack of opportunities. Women must be empowered as ambassadors of natural resources and the environment and as contributors to socio-economic progress if the earth is to be sustainably developed.

	The global (corporate) citizen (1.49mb) Charity doesn't have to begin at home. Learn how attorneys and business executives are using their expertise to improve the world.

	Going green: Sustainable growth strategies (2.33mb) In this, our fifth volume, we examine how the world’s accelerating concern over climate change is affecting the technology industries as well as their plans to meet the growing clamour for environmentally friendly products and services.

	Green banking Consumer finance update: Corporate sustainability edition: The Consumer Finance Group is pleased to provide a newsletter dedicated to the discussion of sustainability and emerging trends for consumer finance companies.

	How your company can prepare to manage carbon as an asset The paper addresses ways companies can prepare for GhG regulations by assessing their carbon footprint and the potential accounting/disclosure implications of participating in a cap-and-trade program.

	Millennials at work: Perspectives from a new generation Through its college graduate survey findings, PwC explores the dynamics a changing workforce and the ramifications for people management in the future. Some highlights include: (CSR) is very important to millennials with 88% stating that they seek employers with social responsibility values that reflect their own, suggesting perhaps the growing importance of the issue. Very high number (86%) who say they would consider leaving an employer whose social responsibility values no longer reflected their own Climate change is also seen as important to 58% of respondents.

	PwC community investment report: I am one (1.09mb) At PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, we believe in the transformative power of purpose. As a firm and as individuals, we challenge ourselves to step out of our comfort zones and into the communities where we’re needed most. We bring with us a common purpose: to help inspire change. When some 30,000 of us walk, ride, teach, march, run, paint, plant, putt and build, change happens on a breathtaking scale. We’re proud to show you the results.

	The sustainability yearbook 2009 For the fifth consecutive year, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and SAM Group launched the Sustainability yearbook 2009. It is one of the world's most comprehensive publications on corporate sustainability and the related challenges and opportunities for companies.

	Tackling emissions growth: The role of markets and government regulation This paper sets out the role that markets and other government interventions, such as energy efficiency standards, will need to play in order to build a low-carbon economy in the next five to ten years.

	Taking responsibility: PwC's global corporate responsibility dialogue The first-ever PwC global corporate responsibility dialogue, Taking responsibility, was released in May 2008 to coincide with the announcement of the winners of the Global Communities Recognition Awards 2008. The dialogue outlines what corporate responsibility (CR) means to PwC and showcases some of the actions and initiatives our firms around the world are undertaking to make a positive impact on their communities.

	Transfer pricing and the green agenda The green agenda will unquestionably trigger many transfer pricing issues. Challenges will arise, but among them will be significant opportunities for effective planning so that businesses can understand the implications of their present and planned green agenda strategies.

	View Winter 2009 issue: Fueling future growth Companies, as well as consumers, are understandably concerned about rising energy prices and diminishing availability. The time is right for US policy makers to get beyond the sound bites and rhetoric of the election and develop a solid and sustainable energy policy that supports economic growth in an interdependent world.