Trillium’s Jonas Kron Interviewed by Bloomberg TV Regarding Impact of a Potential Water Shortage
To mark the United Nation’s 2012 World Water Day, Jonas Kron, Vice President of Trillium Asset Management, was interviewed on Bloomberg Television’s “InBusiness With Margaret Brennan”. Producing enough food to feed the world’s rapidly growing population will require the international community to ensure the sustainable use of the world’s most critical finite resource, water. Trillium has been engaging companies and encouraging them to develop both short term and long term strategies to significantly reduce their fresh water usage. Jonas talked about the potential impacts that a water supply shortage could have on a company’s agricultural supply chain. You can see …
Uncovering Slavery in Steel
How far up a supply chain should a company be held accountable? In Carajas in Brazil’s eastern Amazon region, work is scarce and poverty and lawlessness are widespread. Opportunistic hacienda owners lure the desperate and unemployed to distant charcoal camps with promises of work, wages and shelter. Once at the camp, the owners levy illegal charges on the workers for transportation, equipment, lodging and food. Mario Osava, reporting for Inter Press Service last July described the debt as “pretext to keep laborers on the camp under threat and often under armed guard.” Deep in debt, workers succumb to involuntary servitude, …
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