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Ceres is a non-profit sustainability advocacy organization based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1989, Ceres' mission is to "mobilize investor and business leadership to build a thriving, sustainable global economy". Ceres brings together disparate stakeholders - investors, companies and public interest groups - to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build a healthy global economy.〔http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/todayevent/2013/January/todayevent_January8.xml§ion=todayevent〕 In 2007, Ceres was named one of the 100 most influential players in corporate governance by ''Directorship'' magazine. Ceres was a recipient of the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2006,〔 〕 as well as a recipient of the ''Fast Company'' Social Capitalist Awards in 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The 2008 Social Capitalist Awards: Ceres )〕 As of January 2014, its president is Mindy S. Lubber. == History == Ceres was founded in 1989 when Joan Bavaria, then-president of Trillium Asset Management, formed an alliance with leading environmentalists with the goal of changing corporate environmental practices. She named the organization the "Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies", or CERES, after the Roman goddess of fertility and agriculture. That same year, following the Exxon Valdez oil spill, CERES announced the creation of the Valdez Principles (later renamed the CERES Principles〔), a 10-point code of corporate environmental conduct to be publicly endorsed by Ceres companies. In 1993, following lengthy negotiations, Sunoco became the first Fortune 500 company to endorse the Ceres Principles. Since then, over 50 companies have endorsed the Ceres Principles, including 13 Fortune 500 companies that have adopted their own equivalent environmental principles.〔http://www.ceres.org/Page.aspx?pid=416 Ceres website〕 In 2003, the organization dropped the CERES acronym and rebranded itself as "Ceres". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ceres (organization)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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