Help increase your social and environmental awareness and responsible business leadership skills...

Useful Links

Responsible Business Practice

European Commission - Corporate Social Responsibility Campaign (CSR) for Small and Medium Enterprises

• On these websites you can find helpful information on how companies – including small businesses - like your JA student company - can implement good responsible business practices.

European Commission - A recommendation of useful CSR links

• This page lists all relevant organisations in the CSR arena and can direct you to the right places if you want to learn more about responsible business practice.

Game - Sustainable Development Challenge

• Play this game and find out how to build up a new business and at the same time take social and environmental considerations into account.

Game - BT Better Business Game

• Learn how to manage social and environmental issues as the CEO of your own company by playing this game.

Environment and Society

Facing the Future’s “Climate Change: Connections and Solutions” Curriculum

• Learn about climate change within a systems framework, examining interconnections among environmental, social, and economic issues.

Game - Climate change pentathlon

• Learn how you can reduce your personal contribution to climate change by playing this game.

United Nations Environment Programme - Speak your mind

• Get engaged with other young people and the United Nations Environment Programme by joining the e-dialogue, chat and speaker"s corner or by submitting a story.

Encyclopaedia of Sustainability

• The encyclopaedia gives a wealth of information on the concepts and key issues concerning sustainable development. The aim of sustainable development is to bridge the divide between economic growth and the protection of social and environmental aspects of human society.

UNEP and UNESCO - Training Kit for sustainable consumption and behaviour

• Download the youthXchange towards sustainable lifestyles guide by to learn how you can become a more responsible consumer.

United Nations Cyberschoolbus

• Visit the virtual school bus and learn more about topics such as the United Nations Millennium Development goals and how you fit in.