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Companies that are normally reticent about their sustainability achievements will begin to communicate them more boldly in 2011. That’s the […]

Half of companies in the Greek part of Cyprus claim they will be increasing corporate responsibility activities despite the island’s […]

The world’s largest 3000 companies caused about a third of all environmental damage attributed to human activity in 2008, the […]

In the wake of the latest underwhelming climate change summit, Geoff Lye, executive chairman of SustainAbility, argues that business leaders […]

An initiative to promote better fire prevention measures in Bangladesh clothing factories has been set up by Social Accountability International […]

The state should intervene to resolve human rights disputes between people and corporations, and should fill other gaps in existing […]

The UK arm of the telecoms giant Vodafone has reduced its carbon emissions and travel costs by a quarter over […]

One 2010 trend that could easily have been identified by our CSR experts on page nine of this issue was […]

Ireland now has a benchmark for measuring CSR performance in companies and organizations.   The Business Working Responsibly Mark created […]

The influence of the United Nations Global Compact is ‘weak’ in India, mainly because its local network is ineffective, according […]

A ‘gulf’ in behaviour on voting and engagement disclosure has been identified between the best and worst performers among UK […]

Engineering multinational Siemens has unveiled a raft of anti-corruption programmes that will receive funding under its $100 million (£64m, €76m) […]

Unilever has announced plans to ‘decouple’ its growth from its environmental impact. The global consumer goods company believes it can […]

Faith-based institutional investors have limited contact with other responsible investors, even though the two have much in common, a study […]

Businesses in the Irish Republic have been urged to resist the temptation to cut back on CSR programmes despite the […]

Oxfam has published research looking at how investors can influence international development and poverty work. Mike Scott speaks to Rory […]

The number of signatories to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has jumped  by more than 30 per […]

It’s the beginning of the new year of 2011.  One tradition we have for bringing in the new year is […]

Kawali is a village in central India similar to many others in the country’s ‘cotton belt’. But the small community […]

From a climate change perspective, no form of transport that relies on fossil fuels is a good idea. In the […]

GSK is recognised for its efforts in the access to medicine (ATM) field. It came out comfortably on top of […]

National Grid’s vision statement leaves little room for ambiguity. The UK-based power company has set its sights on no lesser […]

A decade ago, British American Tobacco found itself in a bind. Progress on key sustainability challenges was almost non-existent, the […]

As a catering company, Compass has decided it should not be content just with providing lunchtime food to millions of […]

Pawni Devi, a 30-year-old mother from the remote Barmer district of Rajasthan in India, was once convinced that she was […]

The Fairtrade Foundation has countered allegations that its labelled products may not deliver as many benefits as claimed. The Institute […]

Proposed legislation that would have made Canadian mining companies accountable for the negative social and environmental impacts of their foreign […]

Companies have been told to put more time and effort into positive lobbying on climate change in the wake of […]

Internal activists are emerging within some companies – and we need to encourage them,  says David Grayson You may not […]

A CSR training programme run by the sustainability consultancy Two Tomorrows is to be offered in Spain for the first […]

The Indian government has announced plans to require companies to spend two per cent of profits on corporate responsibility projects. […]

The vexed issue of lobbying is raising its head once again. On the one hand, the Carbon Disclosure Project reports […]

Richard Duncan. CLSA Books. Paperback. 228 pgs. £16 / $25. Richard Duncan is that rare thing – an unequivocal economist. […]

Investors have been advised by Oxfam to think more about poverty and development when making investment decisions. In a new […]

A US bill to curb the dumping of electronic waste in the developing world has been proposed by Democrat politicians […]

A global survey of supply chains in the US apparel industry has named Walmart and Levi Strauss as having the […]

Online CSR guidance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been launched in Wales by the devolved government’s environment and […]

The Corporate Responsibility Group is toying with the idea of changing itself into an association for individual CSR practitioners. Is […]

Bangladesh, India, Nigeria and Pakistan have been assessed as being among the 12 most problematic countries on the issue of […]

Socially responsible investors have long looked to the Scandinavian region as a model. Mike Scott speaks to Ulrika Hasselgren to […]

The world’s largest corporations have moved quickly to work up CSR strategies on water, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project’s […]

Unilever has agreed to introduce a process allowing trade union representation and other rights at a factory in India, after […]

Two-thirds of FTSE 250 companies now use whistleblowing hotlines to help stamp out unethical and corrupt activities. Research commissioned by […]

A group of property investors has created a body to help them manage their real estate more sustainably. Founding members […]

A far greater number of National Health Service foundation trusts in England should be employing sustainability directors, research has suggested. […]

One of the world’s largest food companies has announced ‘more aggressive’ sustainability goals up to 2015, despite having failed to […]

An influential inter-governmental organization with 127 member states has begun a ‘buy responsibly’ campaign to persuade global consumers to think […]

Businesses that are serious about corporate responsibility ought to be carrying out ‘ethical due diligence’ of prospective employees during recruitment. […]

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has announced another comprehensive revision of its sustainability reporting guidelines – just four years after […]

A CSR partnership-broking forum has been launched in Europe to bring together companies, government and civil society. CSR Europe’s Enterprise […]

Oil companies are attempting to scupper a California global warming law that would take effect in 2012. California’s Global Warming […]

A group of NGOs has released an alternative CSR report on the activities of the multinational confectioner Hershey’s, simultaneously with […]

Amnesty International UK has become one of the few NGOs to produce a sustainability report. The group first looked at […]

UK public opinion over the ethics of British business remains divided, although there has been a marked shift toward greater […]

A guide for mining companies operating near indigenous people’s land has been produced by the International Council on Mining and […]

Online CSR guidance specifically for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been launched in Wales by the devolved government’s environment […]

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has launched its first report on the impact of water constraints on the world’s largest […]

At Chagres, a settlement near the town of Llay Llay, 100km (63 miles) north of Santiago in Chile, huge machines […]

The widespread belief that buying ‘ethical’ consumer goods is nearly always the more costly option has been confirmed by a […]

The Body Shop has ditched a major palm oil supplier for failing to deal adequately with allegations that it evicted […]

UK government plans to set up a Green Investment Bank will need to be backed up with at least £4billion […]

Years of moral recklessness have made the idea of a commodity standard attractive, says Ron Robins Right now, the rising […]

Around two thirds of large US companies now have a corporate responsibility-related board committee to oversee the social and environmental […]

A woman who took up a senior post as a human rights advisor with the Norwegian oil company Statoil has […]

The ISO 26000 standard on social responsibility was officially published on 1 November, bringing to an end six years of […]

On the face of it, the conclusion from recent research that sustainability ratings favour companies that are most responsive to […]

Developing world companies have been provided with a ready-made document that should help them publicly report on how they are […]