PricewaterhouseCoopers and the UN Refugee Agency are working together to build a sustainable primary school educational program in Chad to serve up to 20,000 refugee children from Darfur. The project aims to build schools, improve the quality and relevance of education by enhancing teachers’ skills, and provide guidance to children leaving school in seeking either employment or opportunities to further their education.

The CEMEX limestone quarry, La Martinenca, and its adjacent CEMEX cement plant are situated in the locality of Alcanar in the South of Catalonia. The quarry lies at the Southern foothills of the Montsia Mountain range in Spain along the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea. It is located within a prominent tourist area, in the proximity of many vacation resorts. The quarry has a total surface area of 140 ha with fifty percent of it exploited and twenty percent already rehabilitated. 11 million Tonnes of material are extracted from this quarry per year.

Energy is a key driver for economic development and social progress, yet access to sustainable energy services remains a challenge for low-income communities in developing countries. To reach communities that do not have energy access today, new business models, supported by appropriate policy frameworks, are needed.

Customers all over the world are turning to new ways of capturing and using gas to meet their energy needs through onsite power generation. Many of these customers are using GE's Jenbacher gas engines to generate power reliably while in many cases cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Emerging markets demand clean energy technologies but are also concerned about flexibility and costs. Vestas manages these needs with an ambitious localization strategy in China and other emerging markets.

NPC-Cimpor's Simuma landholding falls within the northern limit of the Pondoland Centre of Endemism, stretching from Port St Johns to the Oribi Gorge itself. This is a relatively small but extremely important area for bio-diversity conservation, termed the Centre of Endemism: it contains species that originate from and exist only within a particular, limited geographical area.

Mitigating climate change in the developing world requires more than just reducing carbon emissions. It requires a commitment to economic growth, poverty reduction and ultimately, sustainable development. As a leading carbon developer with an interest in understanding the impacts of its projects and their alignment with local and national development priorities, EcoSecurities set out to measure and understand how one Clean Development Mechanism project in its pipeline is contributing to sustainable development in local communities.

Access to adequate shelter is vital to every human being, yet over 1.1 billion people are living in inadequate housing conditions. While the need for housing is clear, finding affordable solutions is not so clear. In 2008, soon after the Tecucel River in Romania flooded and destroyed more than 300 homes, the ArcelorMittal Foundation formed a global partnership with Habitat for Humanity to improve affected families’ lives.

The quarry area is Atlantic Forest Area, one of the most endangered tropical biomes in the world, and considered as one of the largest biodiversity repositories globally; one of utmost importance and of threatened hot spots (areas under greatest threat and therefore of top priority in conservation decision-making), according to the International Environmental Conservation Organization. Before Cimpor bought the land, it was banana plantation – a practice which weakened the local soils, habitats and ecosystems.

The 45 hectare Shek O Quarry site is at the western tip of D'Aguilar peninsula at the south eastern edge of Hong Kong Island, adjacent to the Tai Tam Country Park. Since 1964 it has provided valuable rock resources for the rapid development of the high rise city of Hong Kong.