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A decision to create a UK ombudsman to protect supermarket suppliers from the power of large retailers has been praised […]

Two new greenhouse gas standards are being tested by 60 corporations to measure the emissions of their products and their […]

Balloting on an advanced draft of the ISO26000 social responsibility standard ends this month as the five-year process of drawing […]

Fatalities among employees of UK-based mining companies have risen sharply during the past five years. A Financial Times study shows […]

The emerging nanotechnology industry has been advised to create databases on nanomaterials to improve its transparency record.   A House […]

A Sustainable Restaurant Association is to be set up in the UK this month to promote and audit CSR in […]

Will Kraft’s takeover of Cadbury damage the British company’s corporate responsibility profile? Who can be sure?   It would be […]

The business world has rallied to pledge relief to Haiti following the earthquake there that has killed more than 100,000 […]

The Ethical Trading Initiative has decided after a year-long investigation not to take action against the clothing retailer Primark over […]

A consortium of information technology companies has launched an ambitious bid to make communications networks 1000 times more energy-efficient. The […]

Sainsbury’s has begun to produce a quarterly corporate responsibility report alongside its financial trading updates. The UK supermarket chain says […]

CSR Europe has produced a new guide on the state of corporate responsibility in Europe. Here  EP summarises some of […]

Microsoft and Yahoo appear unlikely to reconsider their positions in China in the wake of Google’s announcement last month that […]

The global postal industry has set itself a 20  per cent carbon emissions reduction target by 2020.   The International […]

A high-profile annual social responsibility index of pharmaceuticals companies has failed to appear because of wranglings over the ‘extraordinary’ amounts […]

Levels of UK business funding of the arts have fallen back by nearly a tenth this year, after record giving […]

Two Swiss financial institutions have agreed to submit their executive pay deals to a vote at their annual meetings. Swiss […]

For the second year in a row Apple has called on shareholders to reject a resolution urging the computer giant […]

McDonald’s has announced a three-year research project in the UK into the methane emissions of its cattle. The fast-food chain, […]

US telecoms company UTStarcom has paid $3million in fines after admitting to bribing Chinese officials to win business. The firm […]

An investor coalition in the UK has filed a resolution at Shell over the firm’s oil extraction from tar sands. […]

US business have rallied to pledge relief to Haiti following the earthquake in the country that has killed tens of […]

A village in South Africa is to be given access to clean drinking water as part of a collaborative project […]

More than 50 companies have now been accredited to use an independent UK-based ethical shopping logo on their products and […]

Italian energy giant Eni is the latest company set to road-test human rights guidelines backed by the United Nations and […]

Over half of Korean corporations have now implemented sustainability practices, according to a survey of business professionals in the country. […]

Works by corporate responsibility gurus John Elkington, Simon Zadek and Anita Roddick have been voted among the top 50 ‘sustainability […]

Canadian extractive companies have mounted a campaign against proposed legislation that would make them accountable for the negative social and […]

Mike Barry, head of sustainable business at Marks & Spencer, talks to EP about the successes – and tribulations – […]

A major media company is to donate the services of its journalists to help gather information when natural disasters strike. […]

A ‘socially responsible’ travel agent has become one of the world’s first companies to publicly abandon carbon offsetting, highlighting an […]

As we enter a new decade, our thoughts turn to how the CSR profession ought to develop over the next […]

A labour standards programme for factories in poorer countries has been given a boost by five of the largest companies […]

Institutional investors are increasingly turning to specialist consultancy firms for advice on how they should invest responsibly, according to new […]

One of the best-known British socially responsible investment teams has been disbanded due to a corporate shake-up that has left […]

The UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) has been attacked for failing to properly audit the behaviour of banks towards their […]

As huge carbon emitters with a low stock turnover, those who manage buildings face challenges that are underestimated by investors. […]

Sustainability performance is ‘at a standstill’ in the chemicals industry despite technological advances, says an investment research provider. In a […]

Nestle has become the latest chocolate confectioner to sign up for a sustainability certification mark.   The world’s biggest food […]

Non-executive directors can play a crucial role in setting the ethical agenda, argues Danielle Cohen Company training can instil good […]

A global cement industry sustainability initiative has taken a significant step forward by finally managing to bring some Chinese cement […]

Patricia Parsons. Kogan Page.  187 pages. Paperback. £19.95 Working in the world of public relations opens your eyes to both […]

Utilities companies are failing to translate their CSR policies into responsible practice, and most businesses in the sector are neglecting […]

Chinese businesses are making ‘rapid progress’ on corporate social responsibility, according to new research. A report published by the AccountAbility […]

Tesco has hit its target of eliminating all use of landfill a year ahead of schedule. The retail multinational has […]

One of the world’s largest luxury fashion companies has dropped a controversial supplier in a bid to eliminate all paper […]

Businesses that fail to commit to the Global Compact could find themselves frozen out of contracts and partnerships with the […]

Car manufacturer Chrysler has made an unusual foray into human rights activism with an advert calling for the release of […]

Two European multinationals – Daimler from Germany and Mapfre from Spain – are to give all their employees online CSR […]

CSR practitioners have been urged to shrug off the uncertainty created by last month’s failed Copenhagen summit and push on […]

The Swedish government has stepped in with $1million to expand a global corporate programme that helps factories in the developing […]

The Indian government is looking at requiring companies to set aside a percentage of their turnover or profits to be […]

Just one in five British brands are meeting the government’s carbon reduction targets. New research covering 600 of the UK’s […]

Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have been named as the ‘greenest’ electronics firms in a Greenpeace index. The companies were […]

Royal Bank of Canada has registered a rare recent success for the banking sector by being admitted to the Nasdaq […]

Beverages multinational SABMiller and the World Wildlife Fund have launched the Water Futures partnership, an initiative designed to tackle water […]

A Norwegian mining firm has had its permit suspended in the Philippines after apparently failing to consult local communities about […]

There’s a wide disparity between best and worst performers on CSR standards in the UK, according to the latest edition […]

UPS and Chevron were among this year’s winners of Corporate Citizenship Awards from the US Chamber of Commerce’s Business Civic […]

Africa’s first sustainable investment fund outside South Africa has been established. The Africa Sustainability Fund, created by Sustainable Capital, a […]

A multinational healthcare company has saved a billion gallons of water annually since introducing a programme to reduce water use […]

The BBC’s commercial arm is to intensify its ethical supply chain measures by extending its focus to secondary suppliers in […]

Company reporting on human rights tends to gloss over tricky subjects and paint an unbalanced and selective picture of corporate […]

Craig Mackenzie argues that for comparable climate change data we need more detail, not less Over the last 15 years […]

In the aftermath of a potentially groundbreaking legal decision on discrimination and climate change beliefs, EP talks to Tim Nicholson, […]

A huge alliance of institutional investors is to ask 300 of the world’s largest corporations for data on their water […]

The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is to offer a lower level ‘foundation membership’ to companies that are new to the […]

Margot Fraser & Lisa Lorimer (eds). Berrett-Koehler.  192 pages. Paperback. $16.95/£12.99 On the face of it, this is a godsend […]

The Kimberley Process, an international certification scheme to prevent the sale of conflict diamonds, has been criticized after backing down […]

Mike Scott talks to Andrew Gay of UIA, an insurer to trade union members that tailors its investments to the […]

Stock exchange principals from around the world met in New York last month to explore ways of encouraging more responsible […]

Too much CSR information is cluttering up corporate annual reports, says the body that oversees reporting in the UK. The […]