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GlaxoSmithKline is to cut the price of its drugs for elderly people on low incomes in the US. GSK’s Orange […]

The first Sustainability Leadership Award has been won by Ray Anderson, founder and chief executive of Interface, the world’s largest […]

Key performance indicators on the environment are to be drawn up next year by the construction firm Balfour Beatty, which […]

The London Electricity group is to launch its first corporate social responsibility report this spring. The group, which employs 4500 […]

One of the world’s largest public relations agencies has launched a corporate social responsibility arm. New York-based Ketchum says the […]

BSkyB has refined its social responsibility strategy to align its support for community initiatives more closely with the company’s core […]

Barclays Global Investors is investigating a move into socially responsible investment. BGI, based in the US and one of the […]

Around one in seven staff at California-based Agilent Technologies are now on flexible working arrangements, according to the firm’s second […]

Italian oil and gas company Eni has produced an inventory of its social responsibility projects around the world. In two […]

A ‘social plan’ to help reduce the impact of redundancies is being drawn up by Europe’s largest lingerie manufacturer, Triumph […]

The building materials group RMC has said it will ensure all its UK operating companies are involved in at least […]

Lattice Group has jumped straight into joint top place in Business in the Environment’s (BiE) sixth annual Corporate Environmental Engagement […]

One of the UK’s biggest financial companies has jumped into the socially responsible investment market by luring the City’s best-known […]

The world’s second largest paper company is to begin work on developing social performance indicators after putting in place a […]

The UK motor industry is to develop best practice guidelines on sustainability principles for its supply chain. The industry’s trade […]

One of the UK’s largest retailers is to use its stores and staff to help young homeless people improve their […]

BP and Shell have fared best in an analysis of the social and environmental performance of eight large oil and […]

One of the world’s largest publishing companies has signalled its intention to take greater account of its social and environmental […]

The BBC is to draw up a corporate social responsibility framework as part of a drive to become a leader […]

A scheme to help raise living standards in East Timor has been launched by BP in conjunction with the Save […]

The health care and chemicals group Bayer has reported for the first time on aspects of its social performance. The […]

The chemical company Rhodia has received an award for the best annual environment report in France. Rhodia won the second […]

Oil companies working in conflict zones or highly corrupt countries should be required to declare exactly how much they pay […]

One of the world’s largest food companies has become so fed up with processing questionnaires on its ethical performance that […]

Technology company Sony is jointly leading an initiative to look at how business can help bridge the ‘digital divide’ between […]

The retail group Kingfisher has outlined plans to improve the social and environmental performance of its 16 operating companies. The […]

The Royal Bank of Scotland is to provide the Prince’s Trust with around £10million ($14.5m) in what the young people’s […]

BT is to produce a summary of a two-week online debate on the digital divide held last month. The initiative […]

The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) is holding its first-ever session on corporate social responsibility at next month’s annual conference. The […]

Guardian Newspapers has won the ‘corporate community involvement newcomer’ award for its work with schools in London under the Lord […]

Retail group Ikea has completed face-to-face visits to all its 2000 suppliers to explain its code of conduct. Ikea says […]

The world’s largest chemical group has said it will have established individual codes of conduct within all its divisions by […]

Nike has released its first corporate responsibility report. The document, which uses Global Reporting Initiative guidelines, concentrates mainly on labour […]

Auditors have heavily criticized Railtrack’s Social Responsibility Report, which has been published on the company’s web site. In the report, […]

DaimlerChrysler has come top in an assessment of the sustainability policies of ten large car manufacturers. The study, carried out […]

Technology company Agilent is to put its social and environmental reporting onto the web next year. The US-based company, which […]

Chocolate manufacturers in Europe and the US have come together to produce a strategy to tackle child slave labour in […]

One of the world’s largest investment management firms, State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), has formed a ‘strategic alliance’ with the […]

British Airways has been told it needs to improve the scope of its social and environmental reporting. The call has […]

An oil and gas company facing a vociferous campaign over alleged health hazards at one of its terminals has allayed […]

Hopes that the courts would clear up confusion about the liability of UK companies for harm alleged to have been […]

Swedish mobile phone group Ericsson has lent $5million (£3.5m) of equipment, free of charge, to the United Nations to help […]

The collapse of Enron gives new urgency to the corporate social responsibility debate. Managers like to stress the difficulties of […]

Fresh food company Chiquita has produced its first corporate responsibility report. The 100-page document commits the company, which produces roughly […]

The Enhanced Analytics Initiative (EAI), which aims to improve the quality of investment research into extra-financial issues, is to be […]

Denmark’s largest banking group, Danske Bank, has adopted an SRI policy in the belief that it will improve the long-term […]

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), creator of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting guidelines, is establishing an Australian base […]

Traidcraft/Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.Free at www.thebuyinggame.org This online game has been created to raise awareness of ethical supply […]

A leadership group has been set up by the United Nations to advise John Ruggie, its special representative for business […]

A former climate change minister has taken over the UK government’s corporate responsibility brief. Ian Pearson has been given the […]

Charities may soon have to compete with companies for the ethical high ground, a third sector fundraising specialist has said. […]

One of the UK’s leading asset management companies is changing its tax domicile from Britain to the Irish Republic to […]

A new version of the AA1000 Assurance Standard was unveiled last month. The standard, used by assurers as a guide […]

China Mobile, the world’s biggest mobile telephone operator, has become the first Chinese state-controlled business to join the Climate Group, […]

Gulf Air, Bahrain’s national carrier, has announced a corporate social responsibility plan with three main themes: climate change and clean […]

The financial crisis has shown that reporting is no substitute for firm action on ethics, says Leo Martin The rise […]

Three organizations with links to the United Nations are making efforts to encourage more in-depth coverage of human rights in […]

Costa, the UK’s largest coffee shop chain, announced last month that all coffee sold in its 785 British stores is […]

The World Bank has withdrawn from a deal to fund an oil project with the government of Chad after politicians […]

One of the largest and most ambitious corporate responsibility events ever planned has had to be postponed because of the […]

Most British fashion chains are making only ‘glacial’ progress on improving wages in their supply chains, according to a new […]

Not the least important among the many issues raised by the turmoil in financial markets is the performance of the […]

A failure of risk management on a massive scale The crisis has exposed shortcomings and omissions in some ESG research, but […]

A US supermarket chain has broken new ground by signing an agreement with a workers’ organization to improve wages for […]

Could recent events in financial markets be the death of corporate responsibility and responsible investment, or the making of it? […]

Two SRI indexes have been set up to cover listed companies in Africa. The Africa investor SRI 50 and Africa […]

A set of human rights guidelines for pharmaceuticals companies has been accepted by the United Nations. The guidelines, which have […]

Survival International has picked out Perenco, Samling and Vedanta as three of the worst companies for ‘abusing tribal people’s rights’. […]

Some of the leading aerospace and defence exporters in Europe and the US have agreed to greater informal co-operation on […]

Wal-Mart is claiming dramatic progress on eliminating child labour in the central Asian republic of Uzbekistan by using its purchasing […]

The social foundation of the Australian communications group Telstra is to give A$400,000 ($248,000, £159,000) in grants to community organizations. […]

A global bank is testing some novel ways to increase readership of its annual sustainability review, including a prize draw […]