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Standard Life’s ethical funds have divested from airline stocks in a direct response to the views of retail investors. The […]

Too many businesses are failing to include sporting activities in their social responsibility programmes, according to the International Business Leaders’ […]

The pensions arm of a leading Danish bank is removing its investments in companies that make cluster bombs. Danica Pension, […]

One of the world’s most populous cities has passed legislation requiring companies based there to publish annual sustainability reports. The […]

The UK’s largest postal company is to give its 180,000 employees access to health assessments and lifestyle coaching. In an […]

Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. 96 pages. Free download at www.bcccc.net A number of overviews of responsible investment have […]

Companies using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines are failing to explain how their sustainability strategies are likely to affect […]

Pressure is growing on the secretariat of one of corporate responsibility’s flagship global programmes to take action against ‘free rider’ […]

The market for professional services in corporate responsibility is still growing at a rapid rate, and demand is outpacing provision […]

ArcelorMittal is to spend $250million (£126m) on resettling residents from more than a dozen villages in the Keonjhar district of […]

ANZ has been named as the employer of choice for women for the sixth consecutive year. The bank, which was […]

A Conservative government in the UK would amend the combined code on corporate governance to require boards to ‘seriously consider […]

Wal-Mart Stores, the world’s biggest retailer, has decided to meet thousands of its Chinese suppliers as part of a campaign […]

A blog section on socially responsible business in Micronesia has been added to a website run by Catalyst, a London […]

A village in Alaska is suing 20 companies on the grounds that they have altered the climate, forcing residents to […]

Many companies are throwing away the chance to hire quality staff because they fail to mention their business’s ethical credentials. […]

A head of corporate responsibility at a UK company can expect to earn more than £85,000 ($171,000) a year. The […]

The financial services group JPMorgan has appointed Christopher J. LaFleur, the former US ambassador to Malaysia, as its head of […]

The finance arm of the Gavi Alliance, a non-profit organization whose donors include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has […]

CSR practitioners expect to spend more time in the future on communication rather than programme development and monitoring. Latest research […]

Dutch pension fund PGGM is to exclude PetroChina from its €88billion ($127bn, £65bn) investments because of concerns over the Chinese […]

John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan. Hardback. 272 pages. Harvard Business School Press. £14 / $27.50 Could social entrepreneurs be the […]

Asian listed companies are more carbon-intensive than their peers elsewhere in the world – with the result that investors in […]

Julia Cleverdon, one of the UK’s most prominent figures in corporate social responsibility, stepped down this month from her post […]

Waste water re-use rates will reach 50 per cent in Beijing when the 2008 Olympic Games begin, thanks to reclamation […]

Nearly all FT 500 sustainability reporters now publish information on their climate change impacts, suggests a new study. The survey […]

A thematic approach to socially responsible investment paid off for Newton Investment Management last year when financial stocks suffered in […]

Vigeo, the leading European CSR ratings agency, is extending its coverage into the Asia Pacific area by forming a partnership […]

Leading food and drink makers have signed a collective agreement to cut their water use in the UK, providing further […]

Canadian telecoms business Aastra has created an ethical policy for its suppliers that sets out guidelines on areas such as […]

Save the Children has created a managerial role to forge closer links with big business. The director of philanthropy and […]

Japan is supporting China’s environmental conservation efforts through six loans worth more than $436million (£222m). The finance, in the form […]

A programme has been set up to reduce the bullying and harassment of children who use mobile phones and the […]

China’s new labour law is beginning to take hold, despite some business opposition, Auret van Heerden, president and chief executive […]

Defamation actions brought against labour rights campaigners by two clothing manufacturers in Bangalore, India, have been called off. An agreement […]

Disagreements over the phrase ‘corporate social responsibility’ on the internet reference site Wikipedia remain unresolved more than a year after […]

EP looks at facts and figures on salary levels that are drawn from the first detailed study of the remuneration […]

The 25th anniversary of Business in the Community is a cause for celebration. It is also an appropriate milestone to […]

‘Living wage’ levels for 400 employees have been written into contracts issued to private sector companies by the Greater London […]

The Bangladesh-based Grameen Bank is to be partnered by Crédit Agricole in supporting microlenders around the world. Crédit Agricole, France’s […]

Three logistics companies are to work alongside the United Nations on emergency responses to large-scale natural disasters. Agility Logistics, TNT […]

Legal firms are showing the way on pro bono work – and more of us should follow, says Aaron Hurst […]

An 18-point action plan to fight the use of child labour has been announced at an international conference in Delhi. […]

The Clean Clothes Campaign, along with other rights organizations worldwide, has urged the Bangladesh government to free Mehedi Hasan, a […]

The Irish Republic’s first accredited education programme on CSR for junior and middle ranking managers has been set up by […]

Alastair Ross Goobey, a prominent British fund manager who consistently campaigned for greater corporate accountability, has died aged 62. Ross […]

The oil corporation Chevron is to give $30million (£15.4m) over three years to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, tuberculosis […]

A system using stakeholders rather than SRI specialists to rate companies on social and environmental performance has been created by […]

GlaxoSmithKline and the non-profit group Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) are to collaborate on the production of new malaria drugs. […]

Amnesty International has urged five leading French banks to tighten their policies on investment in companies that make and trade […]

Fourteen large hedge funds have signed up to a set of standards requiring greater transparency and disclosure. The funds, including […]

Pressure from employees is the most significant influence on corporate responsibility in companies, a survey reports. A poll of 150 […]

Most of Hewlett Packard’s central European suppliers still have a ‘reactive’ approach to social and environmental responsibility despite the company’s […]

Microfinance projects are becoming more attractive to mainstream investors. Deutsche Bank says the volume of such loans has risen ‘sharply’ […]

Fewer than ten per cent of the UK’s biggest companies use non-financial measures to determine senior executives’ performance pay, new […]

Small firms are most likely to seek advice on corporate responsibility from trade associations, a poll suggests. Of 100 director-level […]

Corporate responsibility practitioners in the UK are likely to earn more money working for a company than for a consultancy, […]

A baker’s dozen may be unlucky for some, but not, it seems, for the 13 Land Securities-owned shopping centres working […]

More than three billion people, or almost half the world’s population, cook in their homes using traditional fires and stoves […]

At the most extreme, critics of national lotteries see them as just another form of gambling that erodes ethical values […]

If asked to name one of the world’s leading dairy farming nations, few westerners would think of Pakistan. Yet dairy […]

When Mimoungou Haruna’s leg first started swelling, he was concerned. By the time it had swollen to well over twice […]

At the Vimax Beauty hairdressing salon in Curitiba in southern Brazil, Vicktor, like any self-respecting salon owner, spends his day […]

An Irishman walks into a bar. It may sound like the start of a joke, but it’s actually the beginning […]

Signs of new life at the CSR Academy have emerged with the appointment of a former corporate responsibility consultant to […]

A supermarket chain and a telecoms company are to use a new social reporting framework devised by audit and accounting […]

It’s right to be suspicious of buy-out firms, but we should give them a chance, urges Danielle Cohen If the […]

Governance scandals and climate change are pushing social and environmental issues up the agenda for companies and investing institutions in […]

One of the world’s largest information technology companies has withdrawn from an initiative to spread the use of computers in […]

State-owned businesses in China have been advised by the government to create corporate responsibility departments and policies.   Guidelines issued […]

Wal-Mart has published its long-awaited first sustainability report. US-based reporting specialist Kathee Rebernak provides some thoughts on its scope and […]

Another day, another ethical investment index. Last month, three big equity index providers added to their already extensive offerings. Standard […]