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The world’s best sustainability report is produced by Petrobras of Brazil, according to an online survey of 1700 report readers […]

A new system for managing financial information should make it easier for readers of sustainability reports to extract the data […]

A group of Fairtrade companies, faith groups and non-governmental organizations has produced basic principles on the sourcing of cocoa to […]

European companies lose market value when they are associated with environmental violations – but US businesses tend to escape unscathed. […]

Ethical Investment Research Services first began assessing companies a quarter of a century ago. Mike Scott talks to its chief […]

One of the world’s largest defence companies has been praised for having the ‘courage’ to adopt 23 recommendations from an […]

Anglo American has taken the unusual step of issuing a 40-page report rebutting allegations of human rights abuses by its […]

Executives working within companies have a more positive view of how successful their corporate responsibility programmes are than the consultants […]

Rio Tinto has devoted an unusually large section of its latest annual report to information on corporate responsibility. The mining […]

A new index has been created to recognize companies whose products, services and outlook concentrate on the needs of poor […]

The corporate responsibility recruitment market appears to be largely unaffected by the growing economic difficulties worldwide, although the picture is […]

The UK government is to develop a standard way of calculating social return on investment. The Cabinet Office has set […]

IBM has set up a programme that it likens to an in-house version of the US Peace Corps, through which […]

The mandatory requirement for state-owned companies in Sweden to produce an annual sustainability report will not be extended to listed […]

The UK government has defeated a parliamentary move to introduce socially responsible investment principles into its future plans for national […]

One of the most widely used corporate responsibility standards has been made more explicit after a two-year revision. The SA8000 […]

Natural disaster and accident insurance for less than ten euro cents a day (15 US cents, UK 8p) is to […]

The Mazda Motor Corporation has received the Human Rights Merit Award from Japan’s justice ministry and the National Federation of […]

Six Asian entrants were chosen for the short lists in this year’s FT Sustainable Banking Awards, given by the Financial […]

Public limited companies have been urged by the Bursa Malaysia stock exchange to improve their CSR practices and integrate them […]

The Ericsson telecoms group has been given the China Green Company award. The title was awarded to Ericsson by the […]

BP has committed itself to support local education for the next ten years in an area affected by its Tangguh […]

An Australian subsidiary of the vehicle maker GM is partnering the World Environment Center to make its supply chain more […]

A website has been set up by Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) to promote its HERproject, which aims to meet […]

Yahoo, the internet provider that has been attacked for its indirect role in human rights abuses in China, has established […]

An agreement to expand business responsibility education has been signed by the Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility and the graduate […]

An agreement has been concluded that will promote the education and advisory services of the Chinese Federation for Corporate Social […]

Insight Investment has developed an approach to SRI investing that takes account of its requirement to hold stocks right across […]

A programme that encourages the chief executives of large companies to manage their water resources more effectively is scaling down […]

A large Dutch pension fund has provided the clearest sign yet of the growing interest in microfinance by starting a […]

A programme to provide beverage companies with a way of measuring and managing their carbon footprints was started last month. […]

Ian W. Jones, Michael G. Pollitt and David Bek.Hardback. 359 pages. Palgrave Macmillan. £57/$80. At a time when it’s fashionable […]

A corporate responsibility rating service focusing on business risks has been created by Pirc. The GovernancePlus Rating Service extends the […]

As delegates gather this month for the 2008 Global Reporting Initiative conference in Amsterdam, Ethical Performance offers readers a sneak […]

Stakeholder relations need to move on to another level if they are to be truly effective, says Jeremy Moon Most […]

When the first issue of Ethical Performance appeared in May 1999, the dotcom bubble had not yet burst, presidents Bill […]

Nine large Spanish companies are to adopt the London Benchmarking Group model when measuring the level of their community investments. […]

A Nigerian bank is to set up libraries in public secondary schools in all 36 of the country’s states. Bank […]

An international bank has asked some of its high-flying executives to come up with views on the key social and […]

The business consortium developing Russia’s controversial Sakhalin II oil and gas project has withdrawn from efforts to secure export credits […]

The main UK providers of assurance for corporate non-financial reports offer a ‘very similar’ range of services, says the first […]

Any realistic prospect of a binding set of United Nations ‘norms’ governing the human rights responsibilities of multinationals was ended […]

Motorola is the latest corporate target for campaigners complaining about human rights abuses in Israel. The US Campaign to End […]

Danone, Nestlé and Unilever are the best large food companies at addressing health concerns. An analysis of ten of the […]

A ‘social stock exchange’ trading shares in responsible businesses could be set up next year if a feasibility study finds […]

Hotel chain Scandic is to phase out the sale of bottled water in its restaurants and during conferences. The Stockholm-based […]

A clothing retailer is offering its customers user-friendly information online about the social and environmental impacts of its products. California-based […]

Multinational fruit company Chiquita is facing lawsuits in the US over its decision in the 1990s to pay protection money […]

Japanese companies are doing relatively well on addressing employee and environmental issues but are struggling with human rights and ethical […]

Mobile phone company Ericsson has begun a partnership with a rival African firm that aims to save the lives of […]

Costa Coffee, the UK’s largest coffee shop chain, is to convert its entire coffee supply to ‘sustainably grown’ beans sourced […]

The Tomorrow’s Company think-tank is to investigate the social and environmental ramifications of changing trends in company ownership. The inquiry […]

Shareholder activists in the US have begun to target mutual funds over their ethical investment policies by filing resolutions for […]

Welcome to the 100th issue of Ethical Performance – and to the much changed world of socially responsible business. The […]

L&G Ethical Trust is an ethical tracker, and there aren’t many of those about. Ideally, such a fund would provide […]

HBOS and Lloyds TSB are the FTSE 100 banks that most effectively limit the carbon footprint of their business travel. […]

Bonds that reflect social and environmental concerns are becoming more popular among institutional investors in Europe and several fixed income […]

A smart card that contains personal details such as date of birth and will have to be used for buying […]

Media companies have agreed guidelines on how to categorize the suitability of internet, television and mobile phone content for children. […]

A climate change action plan to boost investment in energy efficiency and clean energy technologies has been released by 49 […]

Five major US companies have agreed to disclose all donations to political parties after a concerted campaign by shareholders.   […]

Ethical investment is going back to the past. The earliest ethical funds, such as the Friends Provident family of Stewardship […]

Six utilities companies are to submit their British suppliers to a scheme that monitors their progress on cutting carbon emissions. […]

EP talks to the new chief executive of Business in the Community about expansion, putting pressure on members – and […]

China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina), the nation’s largest chemicals manufacturer, is running a pilot programme at its plants in Tianjing […]

A two-acre plot in Serendah, Malaysia, has been donated by an investment holding company for the building of a Tamil […]

The proportion of British companies training staff in business ethics has increased dramatically over the past three years. A new […]

The internet provider Yahoo has asked the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice for assistance in freeing two Chinese journalists […]

The government of Saudi Arabia has begun a project to promote corporate responsibility. The three-year Saudi Arabian Responsible Competitiveness Initiative […]

The cosmetics company Avon has created a partnership with the United Nations to address the issue of violence against women. […]

Challenging companies is fine, but the brave next step is to take on consumers, says Blake Lee-Harwood If the last […]

Retail companies have been urged to train buyers on labour standards – and to link their pay to supply chain […]