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A new avenue has opened up in the socially responsible investment field with the creation of a fund investing in […]

Support for ethical consumerism has declined in the UK since the start of the recession, according to new market research […]

Three US supermarkets have blacklisted a Michigan blueberry farm found using children as pickers. Wal-Mart, Meijer and Kroger say they […]

The UK government has opened a consultation on possible changes to the OECD’s guidelines for multinational enterprises. In a process […]

Sometimes what you leave out says more than what you put in. So it is with sustainability reports. A new […]

Barack Obama has challenged US companies to ‘transform’ their corporate responsibility programmes to make them more effective and wide-ranging. The […]

The European Commission has been urged to provide cash to train analysts and investors in evaluating companies’ social and environmental […]

The UK government has issued a Business and Human Rights Toolkit for its overseas missions. The 21-page document, published last […]

WWF and Forum for the Future are the partners of choice for British CSR directors when they want corporate responsibility […]

Two new mergers of sustainability rating agencies have been announced as consolidation in the CSR research market continues apace. The […]

United Biscuits, the UK manufacturer of brands such as McVitie’s, Jaffa Cakes and Penguin, has pledged to procure two-thirds of […]

Neil Kearney, a key figure behind the Ethical Trading Initiative and the SA8000 workplace standard, has died aged 59 of […]

The most commonly used standard on stakeholder engagement is to be revamped and republished next year. Consultations on changes to […]

UK ports are making ‘significant inroads’ in complying with environmental legislation but still do too little to prioritize the issue, […]

Chevron, ExxonMobil, Nestlé, Shell and Vedanta were among the world’s most criticized companies during September and October. The reputational risk […]

Freedom of association and female labour issues have been set as priorities in new CSR guidance for the electronics sector […]

A nutritional ‘green tick’ labelling system in the US has been disrupted after a controversy over potentially misleading information and […]

Sainsbury’s, one of Britain’s largest supermarket chains, has announced plans to cut its carbon footprint by a third by 2030 […]

A Conservative government in Britain would form a cross-sector group to work with companies to ensure that all new appliances […]

IBM is to become one of the first US companies to cover all the costs of primary healthcare for its […]

The OECD has agreed to develop closer links with the United Nations Global Compact. The two organizations will particularly seek […]

Kraft Foods has become the latest company to certify a chocolate product under the Rainforest Alliance seal. The Swiss multinational […]

US banks and financial services are now regarded as the country’s least ethical companies, according to the results of an […]

UK-based consultancy SourceAsia has been contracted to help the $396billion (£242bn) Norwegian Government Pension Fund conduct ethical screening of Asian […]

There are clearly hopes in business circles that next month’s United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen will provide the […]

The flooring company Interface is more than halfway to its goal of becoming fully sustainable, claims its founder Ray Anderson. […]

There are more awards in the CSR field than ever before, yet there’s a sense that interest in them is […]

The Church of England continues to punch above its weight in the responsible investment world – and is not just […]

Twelve senior business executives have formed the Irish Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change. The new grouping will push for […]

Emmanuel Raufflet and Albert J Mills (eds). Greenleaf.  294 pages. Hardback. £24.95 CSR dominates the landscape of thinking about business […]

Japan’s new financial services minister has declared his government’s commitment to CSR, attacking the country’s existing corporate ethics and promising […]

An ambitious corporate responsibility conference postponed because of the financial crisis has been rescheduled for next March. The international Business […]

Sri Lanka’s largest clothing exporter is to help people displaced by the government’s war against the Tamil Tigers. The Brandix […]

Work could soon begin on United Nations-backed ‘principles for sustainable insurance’ created for the global insurance industry. The idea for […]

Airlines, airports and aircraft manufacturers have said they will halve the aviation industry’s carbon emissions by 2050.      British […]

We can no longer assume unfettered capitalism is for the public good. Change is needed, says David Loy Despite all […]

New CSR ratings for industry sectors are to be published six times a year by the sustainability consultancy Two Tomorrows. […]

Guidelines on freedom of expression and privacy issues for internet companies could be modified to a wider selection of technology […]

J. Sainsbury is to use certified sustainable palm oil in its two best-selling biscuit ranges – digestives and rich tea. […]

The importance of tax avoidance as a CSR issue moved up a notch last month with a decision by the […]

A utilities company has left the US Chamber of Commerce, accusing it of ignoring the truth on climate change.   […]

Centrica, Reckitt Benckiser, Royal Dutch Shell and Unilever are among Britain’s most responsible companies on climate change, reports the Carbon […]

The 2009 graduates of a new CSR course at Geneva University have celebrated with a role reversal – holding a […]

Four in ten of China’s leading companies are not publicly engaged in corporate responsibility, says the country’s first national CSR […]

Corporate responsibility functions in many organizations appear to be coming through the recession relatively unscathed. Various indicators, including a new […]

An unusual alliance has been struck-up between the tissue products giant Kimberly-Clark and Greenpeace, which will see a turnaround on […]

A number of large British companies have committed to reporting on their ‘forest footprints’ as part of a programme by […]

The world’s largest sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have been accused of failing on CSR principles agreed one year ago. The […]

Companies have been urged to ask their suppliers for more information on diversity performance, and to consider submitting such data […]

The world’s largest catering business has become the latest company to agree new labour standards with Florida’s tomato pickers in […]

Former US president Bill Clinton is to support The Body Shop’s fight against the sex trafficking of young people. The […]

A ‘report card’ has been published detailing the sustainability performance of US and Canadian colleges. The fourth annual College Sustainability […]

The Dow Chemical Company and Fuji Xerox are the latest organizations to join the Eco-Patents Commons, a scheme allowing enterprises […]

In a comfortable, well-ventilated room in England’s east Midlands, two groups of students sit opposite each other. ‘I’m not having […]

Despite tough economic conditions, climate change remains high on the agenda for most corporate boards. But the problem facing many […]

Brew a coffee. Log-on to the internet. Check your emails. Millions of employees go through the same routine every morning. […]

Enel is huge. And growing. It wasn’t always the case. Italy’s largest electricity company used to be 100 per cent […]

Shareholders at the investment bank Goldman Sachs have moved to stop the payout of large bonuses at the company, which […]

France Telecom has halted it corporate restructuring programme after a spate of suicides at the company and the resignation of […]

A Belgian Global Compact Network has been officially launched. Through the new network, organizations will be able to participate in […]

A manifesto outlining a new ‘economic ethic’ has been launched by the United Nations and public figures from NGOs across […]

More than 1000 companies have now been de-listed from the Global Compact by the United Nations for failing to meet […]

The Singapore government has called on companies to implement CSR strategies as a way of strengthening the country’s economy. Labour […]

The UK supermarket chain Waitrose has withdrawn its advertising from the Fox News television channel after remarks made about Barack […]

Nestle has vowed to stop buying milk from a farm owned by the wife of Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe. The […]

A coalition of retailers, non-governmental organizations and food manufactures has launched a foundation to combat obesity in the US. The […]

Airlines, airports and aircraft manufacturers have made a commitment to halve the aviation industry’s carbon emissions by 2050. British Airways […]

US automobile companies will be forced to produce cleaner and more efficient cars under new government proposals. Fuel efficiency standards […]

Procter & Gamble Asia has been given the International Stevie Award for Corporate Social Responsibility at the 2009 International Business […]

PetroChina has been absolved of complicity in human rights abuses in Sudan by the United Nations Global Compact after long […]

One of the issues raised by the bizarre unfair dismissal case brought by CSR practitioner Tim Nicholson against his former […]

There has been a ‘sharp spike’ in the proportion of major US companies reporting greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets over […]