While companies may have similar social and environmental impacts, each company will likely need to craft a unique combination of commitments.

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In fact, investors have become a force in arguing that the economic, social and environmental impacts of business are integrally linked.

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Until public markets embrace long-term thinking and find ways to ensure that social and environmental impacts are considered more fully, they present the greatest risk to a fair and sustainable economy.

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The win-win solutions are endless: more job creation, increased returns for investors and entrepreneurs, global economic shift, and social and environmental impacts that could steer the planet in more positive directions.

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For many in the conservation and development communities who worry about the environmental and social impacts of the extractive industry and who have looked at the challenges of operating in sensitive areas like the Niger Delta and northern Alaska, the news of gas companies coming to northern Mozambique is not entirely welcome.

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The website GoodGuide.com provides a free iPhone app that rates and compares tens of thousands of products on their environmental, health and social impacts.

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Like many people, we worry about the physical, biological, human health, environmental, social and economic impacts of fracking.

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Ben Thornley: We were surprised to discover that, even within the constraints of fiduciary duty and the strictures of conventional portfolio management, US institutional asset owners have been very creative in finding ways to support regional economies and deliver the other secondary social or environmental impacts of priority to beneficiaries.

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