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Every company on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) is failing to exploit the internet to engage with stakeholders on […]

Nick Lakin & Veronica Scheubel, Greenleaf Publishing, hardback,  260 pages. £18.36 Aside from its confusing title, The Sustainable MBA is […]

EP talks to the recently appointed head of AccountAbility about his controversial vision of how the organization should be re-inventing […]

JP Morgan was one of the rare financial institutions to come out of the credit crisis unscathed. Mike Scott speaks […]

A six-month pilot project has been launched to improve working conditions in the Bangladesh garment industry. The project, which will […]

Sustainability ratings generally favour companies most responsive to data information requests, rather than those that are necessarily the best performers, […]

Internet search engine giant Google has released data on the censorship and surveillance it has been asked to carry out […]

The communications group Bell Canada has pledged C$50million ($49m, £31m, €35m) to Canadian mental health charities in one of the […]

Qatar is to establish a corporate social responsibility index for companies on its stock exchange. The Gulf emirate’s proposed index […]

The Mexican Stock Exchange, Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, (BMV) is to launch a sustainability index. BMV’s new index will assess […]

Levi Strauss has created a $100,000 denim insulation fund to encourage the re-use of unwanted jean material as building insulation. […]

A coalition from the research, pension fund and business sectors is to urge companies to give priority to improving their […]

Seventeen new alleged corporate breaches of the guidelines for multinationals of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) were […]

The European SRI market has almost doubled in the past two years in spite of the financial crisis covering the […]

Socially responsible microfinance institutions have been warned against over-selling credit to poor people and neglecting the need to encourage savings. […]

A ‘competency map’ for corporate responsibility practitioners has been produced by Business in the Community (Bitc). The map lists the […]

The Equator Principles on ethical project financing are to be updated. A ‘strategic review’ will be conducted by the newly […]

Attempts to apply the US Alien Tort law to corporations accused of human rights abuses might soon come to an […]

Two holiday companies have joined forces to create a new brand that will focus on ‘sustainable tourism’. The tour operators, […]

Company scores that feed into the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) could be adjusted next month after the discovery of […]

Only one out of every 20 board positions in India’s largest companies is held by a womsn, new research has […]

The aluminium company at the centre of a toxic spill in Eastern Europe has provoked an angry response from victims […]

The FTSE4Good index will no longer automatically exclude nuclear power companies from its socially responsible investment indexes after announcing new […]

While the stability of agricultural products comes evermore into question, Agro-Ecological is already treating sustainable farming as an asset class. […]

Investors have urged the US government to back the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Undrip), as […]

An international code of conduct for private security firms has been agreed and preparations are being made to implement it. […]

The US has passed legislation requiring companies involved in the sale of minerals to show their products are not fuelling […]

Construction industry companies need to limit the number of subcontractors they use in order to gain more control of their […]

Asian asset managers are pushing Malaysia’s stock exchange to amend its listing requirements to include CSR considerations. The Association for […]

Society will benefit if firms give emergency medical training to all of their employees, argues Sue Killen Official statistics show […]

Clothes firms Levi Strauss and H&M have announced a global moratorium on sandblasting for all future product lines. The process, […]

A new UK emissions information regime for cars has been proposed by one of the country’s largest auto makers. Volvo […]

UK-listed mining companies are failing to improve their overall health and safety performance even though many are implementing policies aimed […]

We have been less than impressed in these pages by the European Commission’s past efforts to stamp its mark on […]

There’s good reason to believe emerging market countries will be in the vanguard of future CSR initiatives, according to an […]

CSR practitioners from around the world have rallied to defend the concept of corporate responsibility in the wake of a […]

Hotel multinationals have been attacked over their performance on human trafficking by a faith-based investment adviser. Having analysed a survey […]

The Belgium-based Business for Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) has proclaimed itself the world’s largest ethical supply chain programme, having recruited […]

BP has become the first company ever to be suspended from the FTSE4Good indexes. The oil giant was one of […]

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has created an overseas department dedicated to expanding access to medicine (ATM) in the world’s poorest countries. As […]

A newly-formed Canadian oil company has established corporate responsibility performance measures against which it will produce all its reporting and […]

A global project investigating the integration of CSR management has been started by a group of sustainability research organizations from […]

As the corporate responsibility conference season moves into full swing, EP suggests ways that event organisers could improve the overall […]

A third communication on corporate responsibility is to be produced by the European Commission next summer. The commission, which has […]

Improved disclosure and risk management has been demanded of oil and gas companies by a coalition of investors in the […]

Nick Lakin & Veronica Scheubel, Greenleaf Publishing, hardback, 260 pages. £18.36 Published against a backdrop of changing expectations of community […]

Britain’s health secretary has told companies they will not face legislation on ‘unhealthy’ food, provided they support a forthcoming anti-obesity […]

Cargill, the US-based food group, has vehemently denied violating palm oil standards to which it has signed up. A report […]

Businesses have become involved in a project to promote human rights and humanitarian law in Colombia. Guias Colombia is a […]

Businesses have donated significantly less to the Pakistan flood relief effort than to other recent natural disasters, and have seen […]

The founder and former chief executive of RiskMetrics, Ethan Berman, has left the company’s new owner MSCI less than a […]

Environmental food labelling has become confusing and too complex for UK shoppers and is hindering rather than facilitating ethical buying, […]

Eastern European corporate responsibility reporting is fast approaching the level of Western Europe, with significant improvements in countries such as […]

Companies that fail to register for the UK’s new Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) by the end of […]

A draft responsible investment code has been presented to South Africa’s institutional investors by a Committee on Responsible Investing by […]

A charity has taken the unusual step of placing messages in Asda clothing detailing the supermarket chain’s track record on […]

The revised UK Bribery Act will come into force next April, the government has announced. There had been hopes that […]

Labour standards in the Chinese electronics industry are reported to be still a critical risk for manufacturers with operations in […]

Sustainability reports need to contain more storytelling, a communications expert has said. US-based consultant Michael Margolis argues that most reports […]

US-based social investors Domini have persuaded a steel company to combat slavery in Brazil’s pig iron industry. Nucor, the largest […]

Business interests have expressed concerns about the potential impact on corporate responsibility initiatives of a UK government decision to scrap […]

The sportswear giant Adidas has committed itself to the ambitious social goal of ensuring that nobody in the third world […]

An energy company has featured its latest corporate responsibility report on its own television station dedicated to CSR issues. UK-based […]

One of the high-profile movers behind the early growth of corporate responsibility in the UK has died aged 87. Hector […]

An international human rights impact assessment programme is to be set up by the landscaping materials company Marshalls. UK-based Marshalls, […]

The UK Corporate Governance Code establishes fresh  principles on gender diversity, debate in the boardroom, and pay – but the […]

Online game. See http://knowledge.allianz.com/ceo2/en.html This free online game, developed by WWF and the insurance group Allianz, puts you in the […]

The biggest CSR conference covering the Americas has had to be rescheduled at short notice owing to a change of […]

Consultation has begun on UK government plans to resurrect the idea of requiring businesses to produce an annual Operating and […]

In-house research and good working relationships are at the heart of one UK asset manager’s SRI strategy. Mike Scott speaks […]

A consultancy claims to have proof that improved reputation directly increases consumer spending on a company’s products and services. APCO […]

The Hilton hotel group is to publish a global code of conduct for staff that covers child prostitution, after one […]