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In the autumn of 2007, suppliers of Exeter City Council in the west of England were pleased to find themselves […]

Morou and Claire are worlds apart. One lives in northern Ghana; the other in South Carolina. Together they represent the […]

Investors have told pharmaceuticals companies they need to focus far more on emerging economies and the poor if they are […]

Mike Scott talks to Rob Lake of the giant Dutch pension portfolio manager APG about its inclusive approach to ethical […]

Signatories to the United Nations Global Compact will soon have to meet more stringent standards just announced by its board. […]

The Corporate Responsibility Coalition has returned to focus on a new campaign for a UK government commission on business and […]

Exposing your company to relentless public scrutiny is sometimes painful – but it’s worth it, says Julia King Corporate responsibility […]

Michael Kerr, Richard Janda, Chip Pitts. Hardback. 650 pages. LexisNexis. Can$150 Written by a group of North Americans but with […]

Corporate responsibility reports by law firms are still uncommon, so a debut from a UK-based legal company has caught the […]

A new online ratings system will assess companies’ ethical performance using a combination of expert analysis and the views of […]

The world’s largest chocolate company has become the latest confectioner to sign up for a sustainability certification mark. Mars has […]

Non-governmental organizations have been urged to alter the way they operate so they can work better in cross-sector partnerships. A […]

The cut-price clothing retailer Primark has responded to continuing bad publicity about conditions in its supply chain by creating the […]

One of the world’s biggest investment management consultancies has taken the unusual step of providing its portfolio managers with a […]

It is ten years to the month that Ethical Performance first saw the light of day. That’s not long ago […]

The cigarette company Philip Morris International is taking steps to counter a condition called green tobacco sickness, which affects workers […]

Scandinavia’s GES Investment Services and the UK-based responsible investment specialist Eiris are among the first SRI research providers to be […]

Two large Korean companies have been cleared of breaching the OECD guidelines for multinationals by becoming involved in a natural […]

British companies could be prosecuted under proposed  new legislation for failing to stop employees becoming involved in bribery. The draft […]

An Italian investment bank is to create an index based on water-related risk exposure. EPCI, a rating and index company […]

A leading environmental group has reaffirmed its backing for the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) amid a growing debate about whether […]

A retail training unit has been established by an Indian subsidiary of Wal-Mart to improve the work-related skills of people […]

Michigan University has become the 12th US higher education institution to stop sourcing sports clothing from the Russell Corporation over […]

UK companies’ donations to good causes are expected to fall by more than a third this year, reports a new […]

The Netherlands government is to bring new requirements on corporate responsibility into the Tabaksblat, the country’s corporate governance code. Parliament […]

In this ‘basement’ slot of Ethical Performance ten years ago, the late Alistair Townley set out his aims as EP’s […]

Henderson Global Investors has launched a sustainable and responsible investment blog, in which members of its socially responsible investment team […]

London’s Metropolitan Police, the largest police service in the UK, is to appoint a CSR manager for the first time. […]

One of Europe’s most influential SRI bodies has called on European state and regulatory institutions to insist on mandatory disclosure […]

Two new financial indices for the Far East have been created by SAM, the sustainability investing specialist, and the Dow […]

The Australian government is providing A$2.5million ($1.75m, £1.2m) over three years to establish the world’s first academic centre for responsible […]

India’s leading role in the world’s economy will be the main subject of study at the Centre for India and […]

Growing numbers of businesses operating in China are realizing the importance of CSR reporting, concludes a survey by SynTao, a […]

Improved health and business opportunities among the poor of Bangladesh are the aims of a new joint social business venture […]

A project to prevent flooding and to increase land productivity in the Kahmard district of Bamiyan province in central Afghanistan […]

Two hundred of IBM’s ‘future leaders’ from nearly 40 countries will participate in projects in emerging markets this year as […]

Asian real estate companies are performing poorly on environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices, according to a new study. The […]

Most of Hong Kong’s leading listed companies fail to adopt sound CSR policies, particularly those associated with supply chain, the […]

The aviation industry’s carbon dioxide emissions must top the agenda at this year’s meeting of governments on climate change, a […]

Companies are increasingly putting chunks of their sponsorship budgets into projects that are community-based, reports a specialist consultancy. Montreal-based Sponsorium […]

Cadbury is to become the biggest confectionery brand with the Fairtrade certification mark. The company and the Fairtrade Foundation aim […]

FTSE4Good is paving the way for nuclear power companies to qualify for its socially responsible investment indices. Businesses in the […]

John Elkington has emerged in a new poll as the world’s number one corporate responsibility ‘thought leader’. Elkington, founder of […]

The head of corporate responsibility at US packaging company Meadwestvaco has been made redundant, apparently as a result of recession-related […]

Vanguard, one of the largest mutual funds in the US, has developed criteria to determine whether the companies in which […]

Only a quarter of companies that supply goods to multinationals have responded to a request for climate change data on […]

The use of independent experts to provide commentaries in sustainability reports is becoming increasingly popular. EP looks at the arguments […]

Banks are facilitating corruption internationally by doing business with dictators and should work harder to reject relationships with individuals posing […]

Kellie A. McElhaney. Paperback. 272 pages. Berrett-Koehler £14.44/ $29.95 This do-it-yourself offering on corporate responsibility and branding works well as […]

An unusual ethical investment vehicle to support vaccination programmes worldwide has been set up by HSBC. The bank’s new ethical […]

Some third world businesses now match their counterparts in developed countries on environmental matters such as climate change, but still […]

The ethical recklessness of the financial sector has lessons for all people in business, says Danielle Cohen The recent revelations […]

Mike Scott asks investors, both in the mainstream and SRI fields, whether the practice of selling short on stocks is […]

In itself, the fact that the China Banking Association has issued guidelines on corporate responsibility is significant (see page two), […]

A global auditing company is offering a new ethical qualification for fabric factories. Intertek’s Mill Qualification Programme enables fabric mills, […]

UK-based First Direct has become the first bank to receive the Carbon Trust Standard, a global carbon award requiring year-on-year […]

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has issued a strongly worded statement arguing that a lack of corporate transparency has contributed […]

RiskMetrics Group, the US-based provider of corporate governance services to global financial markets, has acquired Innovest Strategic Value Advisors. RiskMetrics […]

Guidance has been published on how companies can responsibly gather ‘competitive intelligence’ on rivals. The best practice advice, compiled by […]

A UK parliamentary committee has opened an inquiry into business and human rights. The 12-member joint committee on human rights […]

The European steel industry is to step up its efforts to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of its operations. The […]

Levi Strauss is reporting early signs of success for a new approach to ethical supply chain monitoring that entails adjusting […]

The Coca-Cola Company has committed $30million (£21m) to provide access to safe drinking water for communities throughout Africa. The funding, […]

A gold mining company has taken the unusual step of publishing an independent review of how it is managing relationships […]

The global recession has pushed corporate responsibility down the priority list of the food industry. A survey of 600 decision-makers […]

A further sign that corporate responsibility is taking hold in China has emerged with the publication of CSR guidelines for […]

The responsible business performance of most Saudi Arabian companies is ‘intermediate to good’, according to the country’s first comprehensive CSR […]

A tea producers’ ethical code has been created by a body that runs one of the largest certification programmes for […]

Companies trying to implement ‘bottom of the pyramid’ schemes should pool their efforts, not work in isolation, the Ashridge business […]

A coalition of US investors has filed resolutions with ten publicly held internet service providers (ISPs) urging them to report […]

Wal-Mart’s new chief executive Mike Duke has assured stakeholders that the company’s corporate responsibility efforts will continue on his watch. […]

The worldwide backlash against ‘fat cat’ pay, particularly in the part-nationalised financial sector (see page one), offers a salutary lesson […]