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Marketing Magazine - www.marketingmagazine.co.uk

"Marketing brings its readers the biggest and freshest news in the industry and delves into the issues behind the stories. It is firmly established as the leading news weekly for the marketing community, delivering insightful analysis and powerful comment pieces from professionals like the maverick Mark Ritson. Marketing is also home to exclusive industry data, such as its unique Adwatch poll of which TV ads consumers recall, and its famous league tables of the biggest marketing services agencies and rankings of the biggest-spending advertisers and brands. There are dedicated sections for media, branding and sustainability, plus features that explore the cutting-edge issues facing the sector. Founded in 1931, Marketing has become the magazine that truly gives the big picture of what's going on in the marketing, media and advertising industries. It's no surprise that 35,615 marketing professionals have requested or paid for the weekly."

ENDS Carbon - endscarbon.com

ENDS Carbon is a new specialist organisational carbon benchmarking and ratings agency. The ENDS Carbon benchmarking service offers companies the opportunity to compare their performance against their peer group, and shape their public benchmarking and reporting standards for their sector in the future. We benchmark on either a sector basis or a functional basis. Benchmarking helps companies find out their strengths and weaknesses compared to their peer group, and identify the good practice techniques and technologies that will enable them to improve carbon performance in the future. ENDS Carbon is backed by ENDS and the University of Edinburgh Business School.

University of Edinburgh Business School - www.business-school.ed.ac.uk

The University of Edinburgh is one of Europe’s leading research universities. It is also a leading centre of research on climate science. The University of Edinburgh Business School has established a Centre for Business and Climate Change to provide the business community with teaching and research on climate change mitigation and adaptation. The school runs an innovative Carbon Management MSc programme with the School of Geosciences, and a Foreign and Commonwealth Office funded programme for Finance and Investment for a Low Carbon Economy. In 2007, it launched the Carbon Benchmarking Project, and developed the groundbreaking UK Supermarkets Carbon Benchmark. ENDS Carbon is a University spin-out company, created in 2008, and still resident within the Business School.

The Carbon Disclosure Project - www.cdproject.net

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organisation holding the largest database of corporate climate change information in the world. Some 2,500 organisations across the world’s largest economies now measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies through CDP, in order that they can set reduction targets and make performance improvements. This data is gathered on behalf of institutional investors, purchasing organisations and government bodies and made available for integration into business and policy decision making. Since its formation in 2000, CDP has become the gold standard for carbon disclosure methodology and process, providing essential climate change data to the global market place. CDP represents some 475 institutional investors, with combined assets under management in excess of $55 trillion and ensures that the financial community has access to the best available corporate climate change information to help drive investment flows towards a low carbon economy. CDP also works with some 60 purchasing organisations such as Cadbury, PepsiCo and Walmart and with local and national governments, including DEFRA.

Corporateregister.com - www.corporateregister.com

Since 1998 CorporateRegister.com, the global corporate responsibility (CR) resources site, has hosted the world's most comprehensive directory of corporate non-financial reporting. The site currently profiles over 23,000 reports from 5,700 companies across 120 countries and actively contributes to thought leadership in the CR field. CorporateRegister.com is an indispensable and free CR resource, with over 29,000 registered users and 75,000 unique visits per month.