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The Norwegian government has published a white paper on corporate responsibility that signals a greater future role for the country […]

Five multinational oil groups are to work with the Global Reporting Initiative to produce sustainability reporting guidelines for oil and […]

As the recession leads to significant cutbacks in all business sectors around the world, EP looks at some recommended good […]

BlueOrchard is blazing a responsible investment trail in microfinance – and finding that institutional clients see its modus operandi as increasingly […]

Suggestions of a gender divide in the corporate responsibility profession appear to have been confirmed by the second annual CSR […]

Cary Krosinsky & Nick Robins (Eds). Hardback. 272 pages. Earthscan. £19.99 Although it was largely written before the recent market […]

The UK’s Co-operative Group has set aside £70million ($100m) for the next financial year to advertise and promote its ethical […]

CSR International, a networking body for corporate responsibility practitioners, was created last month. The new association, set up as a […]

Secondment programmes can be a useful corporate tool in a recession, say Matthew Farmer and Ed Williams At a time […]

Eighteen law firms and the Law Society of England and Wales have simultaneously published reports revealing their individual carbon footprints. […]

Further signs of the high expectations of a change in attitude to corporate responsibility at the White House have emerged […]

Many manufacturing and retail companies still have huge gaps in their ethical supply chain management programmes, according to a leading global […]

Corporate responsibility regulations will not be imposed by the European Commission despite waning public faith in business as a result […]

Some of the world’s best-known private equity companies have agreed responsible investment guidelines. The companies, all members of the US-based […]

High street retailers should offer less choice so that consumers are forced to buy goods that are more socially and […]

Sustainability principles for the cocoa industry have been unveiled by the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF). The principles, produced after two […]

A university college that has introduced a ‘living wage’ for cleaners has published a document outlining the business benefits the […]

CSR practitioners are feeling more stressed than they did three years ago. A survey of individual members of the UK-based Corporate […]

Pressure on companies to tackle excessive executive pay has ratcheted up significantly in the past month as investors and politicians […]

Fifteen corporate law firms from around the world are to participate in a United Nations-led effort to determine whether corporate […]

The cereal manufacturer Kelloggs has taken the unusual step of using undercover actors to convey waste-cutting messages to employees.   […]

A prestigious annual award for rural and community development projects has gone to Hindustan Zinc, part of the Vedanta metals […]

A senior Australian Treasury official is to be appointed to the governmental advisory group of the Global Reporting Initiative, the […]

Baxter International, the US healthcare products company, has been honoured for its Building Talent Edge programme aimed at developing an […]

Oil palm companies in Indonesia are being encouraged to start new plantations on degraded soil instead of cleared forest land. […]

Jupiter, the UK fund management consultancy, has set up an investment company to cover China. Jupiter China Sustainable Growth, to […]

A moratorium on new mining in the Philippines has been recommended by a British working group. The UK-based Working Group […]

Training and first aid promotion among employees, contract workers and other stakeholders and citizens has earned the 2008 St John […]

Ikea, the Swedish retailer, is giving $48million (£34m) to Unicef to improve the health and living conditions of children in […]

CarbonNeutral, the international carbon offset and carbon management company, has opened a Singapore office. Its first local clients are the […]

An environmental investment fund has been set up in Australia by Impax Asset Management, an investor that concentrates exclusively on […]

Responsible investment grew by eight per cent in Australia during 2007-08 from A$52.8billion to A$57.1bn ($33.2bn-$36bn, £23.8bn-£25.7bn), reports the Responsible […]

By Ethical Performance — From its localized beginnings 5,000 years ago in Mexico and the Indus Valley in India, cotton […]

The long-awaited ISO standard on social responsibility has taken its most important step forward with the publication of a ‘committee […]

People working in corporate responsibility appear to be ‘overwhelmingly happy’ with their lot, according to the latest annual CSR salary […]

The activities of the Clinton Global Initiative, which supports companies in making new corporate responsibility commitments, have been restricted after […]

Technology can help us transform the world, but commitment is lacking at the top, says Mark Lee Not so long ago […]

Mindful of its client base, the giant TIAA-CREF pension fund for teachers is trying to incorporate corporate responsibility issues into […]

At the beginning of last year EP announced the findings from its first ever CSR salary survey, carried out jointly […]

The financial crisis could severely curtail new US president Barack Obama’s efforts to make significant progress on corporate responsibility, an […]

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

Marc J. Epstein. Hardback. 288 pages. Greenleaf. £17.50 In his foreword, John Elkington draws parallels between this book and Robert […]

Seventeen companies with a combined turnover of $1trillion (£737billion) have become founder members of a new body on business ethics. […]

An outline of a proposed international code of conduct for private military and security companies has been produced by an […]

A group of multinational retailers has produced the first part of what it hopes will become a single global standard […]

An investment management company has set up Australia’s first fund specializing in the three environmental sub-sectors of alternative energy and […]

The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) has gained its members’ backing to consider sanctions against the UK clothing retailer Primark over […]

Australia’s first graduate level qualification in corporate responsibility is now being offered at La Trobe University, Victoria. The qualification has […]

EP talks to Global Reporting Initiative chief executive Ernst Ligteringen about sustainability reporting in an economic downturn – and other pressing […]

It would be easy to adopt a sceptical position on the potential value of the ISO 26000 social responsibility standard, […]

Levi Strauss has established a programme in Egypt to improve health education among women in the country’s fast-growing garment industry. […]

Credit card companies and the UK government have agreed ‘fair principles’ on interest rates and charges.   The cost of […]

The personal computer manufacturer Apple is heading for confrontation with shareholder activists over its refusal to produce a sustainability report. […]

The UK broking arm of Aon, the US insurance broker, was fined £5.25million ($7.5m) for bribery last month, providing further […]

More than 40 companies and non-governmental organizations have now joined the Health and Business Roundtable Indonesia, which has the backing […]

The China Charity Award has gone to Novartis, one of the world’s largest pharmaceuticals companies, for its support of relief […]

Two arms of the British state that together spend more than £50billion ($73bn) a year – the Ministry of Defence […]

A group of international financial institutions has combined with the environmental organization The Climate Group to produce guidance for the […]

Most leading Hong Kong listed companies ‘fail to adopt sound corporate social responsibility policies and practices, particularly associated with supply […]

The Canadian mining company Yamana Gold was brought in to the Jantzi Social Index last month on the grounds of […]

Calls are growing for Zimbabwe to be withdrawn from the Kimberley Process, an international certification scheme to prevent the sale […]

Small farmers in poor communities in India will benefit from a $15million (£10.6m) grant made by the Bill and Melinda […]

The world’s second largest sovereign wealth fund, run by the Norwegian government, is examining whether it should exclude companies that […]

Businesses in the United Arab Emirates take a generally limited view of what CSR involves, says new research. A survey […]

Suppliers to the Taiwanese electronics company Acer have been told they must maintain social and environmental standards if they are […]

Too few companies use their lobbying powers to push for beneficial social change, says a new paper. Authors Kyle Peterson […]

The Fairtrade Foundation has strongly denied accusations in The Times newspaper that its system is failing many tea workers in […]

A multi-signature open letter formally complaining that PetroChina is supporting genocide by the Sudan government in Darfur has been delivered […]

Guest column by QCR — Essentially, any business that produces waste cardboard could be in a position to warrant a cardboard […]

Korean Air has been accused by the National Human Rights Commission of discrimination against men in its recruitment of cabin […]

Intel has gone into partnership with the US State Department Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau (ECA) to provide information technology […]

China’s financial institutions have all recorded dramatic achievements in capital adequacy rates, asset quality and risk management while expanding their […]