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Helga Birgden, an experienced manager in governance and sustainable investment, has been appointed to lead the Asia-Pacific responsible investment business […]

WSP has expanded its business by acquiring the Sydney-based environmental project management consultancy Fitzwalter Group. WSP, a global consultancy specializing […]

The first Sino-European co-operation agreement on CSR has been signed to strengthen strategic ties between Chinese textile suppliers and European […]

China’s officially recognized trade unions have said they will begin a campaign to persuade businesses to improve their performance on […]

A bank programme promoting best practice and sustainable investment in the pensions industry in the Far East is to be […]

Philip Morris, one of the world’s largest tobacco companies, has been shortlisted for recognition for its educational work in the […]

Mobile phone company O2 has taken the unusual step in its latest CSR report of advising readers how to be […]

The credit squeeze in the financial markets that led the Bank of England to intervene on behalf of the UK […]

The Coca-Cola Company has joined the Business Leaders’ Initiative on Human Rights (Blihr). The move by the owner of one […]

FTSE Group has resisted a call for a US meat products manufacturer to be thrown off the FTSE4Good Index for […]

Russian companies are making progress on corporate social responsibility, according to a study on the country’s business standards. The report, […]

Concerns have emerged about the future of one of the UK’s biggest corporate foundations after the severe liquidity problems experienced […]

A row between Anglo American and War on Want over human rights accusations has again raised the thorny issue of […]

You can’t overlook bad practices when identifying responsible companies, argues Rory Murphy As a professional with nearly 30 years’ experience […]

Matthew J. Hirschland Hardback. 202 pages. Palgrave Macmillan. £42.50/$69.95 Companies and civil society are increasingly assuming the role of responsible […]

The property company British Land is using a roadshow to bring sustainability advice to shoppers and office workers at its […]

Shoppers at Co-operative supermarkets are being polled to identify the ethical issues on which they think the retailer should concentrate. […]

The communications consultancy Flag has closed its US office and will service clients from Britain. Flag, which has Chevron, Ford […]

Some pioneers die unsung. Not Anita Roddick. The most remarkable thing about the reaction to her death was the focus […]

One of the most prominent ethical supply chain monitoring bodies in the garment industry is expanding its remit. US-based Worldwide […]

One of the world’s best-known private equity companies, 3i, is examining how further to improve transparency in its due diligence […]

An unusual alliance between government and industry has led to the creation of a Strategy for Sustainable Construction in England […]

A new set of sustainability reporting awards will be introduced next year based on the decisions of report readers, not […]

Three senior managers are to jointly lead the International Business Leaders’ Forum (IBLF) after the death of founder and chief […]

Friends of the Earth has pulled out of a bid to become BSkyB’s charity partner after an internal dispute at […]

British businesses may be allocating more resources to corporate responsibility than is generally realized, with more than half claiming to […]

Wal-Mart is claiming to have conducted more ethical audits of its supplier factories last year than any other company – […]

Companies from various industry sectors are to be invited to road test a new guide on how to assess their […]

Motorola has revealed that it found evidence of child labour at two of its suppliers last year. The US multinational, […]

Companies operating in China have been given until the end of this year to prepare for a new legislative regime […]

What lasting influence did The Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, who died last month aged 64, have on business behaviour? […]

HSBC is to offer apprenticeships and training in management techniques to young people in care as part of a £305million […]

Further evidence that corporate responsibility is no longer the preserve of commercial enterprises has emerged with the news that a […]

PGGM, one of the biggest pension funds in Europe, applies both exclusionary and engagement policies to its huge portfolio of […]

British companies whose negligence leads to the death of individuals will face prosecution for manslaughter under legislation that now has […]

BT has won the prestigious Impact on Society award in the 2007 Business in the Community (Bitc) Awards for Excellence. […]

Environmental and social campaigners in many respects are like entrepreneurs – brilliant at spotting a gap and ruthless at exploiting […]

The BBC has replaced its in-house CSR Centre with a department called BBC Outreach. The change reflects the corporation’s decision […]

The most influential corporate responsibility body in the US says the tide has turned against the audit-led approach to ethical […]

Only a handful of companies are providing adequate information on their public policy positions in their non-financial reports, according to […]

The UK’s biggest jewellery retailer has refused to sign up to 12 ‘golden rules’ for sourcing gold because it says […]

A coal mining company has been cleared of human rights abuse charges in the first completed trial against a corporation […]

The T-Mobile telecoms company is setting up a board-level corporate responsibility steering group to develop a more coherent strategy on […]

The Body Shop is claiming to be the first cosmetics retailer to have introduced ‘sustainable’ palm oil across its supply […]

V. Kasturi Rangan, John Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, Brooke Barton (editors). 433 pages. Hardback. Jossey-Bass. £30.99/$55 Ever since C. K. Prahalad, […]

Volvo has hit back at campaigners who are trying to engineer a boycott of the company over the use of […]

The AA1000 Assurance Standard, used by assurers as a guide to verifying sustainability reports, is being revised. The standard, introduced […]

The United Nations has called on business schools to make much greater efforts to advance the principles of corporate social […]

Companies are to be urged to make greater efforts to bring their employees into the fight against child labour. A […]

Public disclosure of fund managers’ bonuses would help counter short-termism, says Simon Zadek The recent turmoil in the financial markets […]

Companies of all sizes will soon be able to qualify for a new corporate responsibility kitemark. The SEE Stamp, which […]

More than 40 Irish businesses have signed up to a new corporate responsibility charter. The document, drawn up by Business […]

Indonesia has taken the unprecedented step of passing legislation that will require companies to spend money on corporate responsibility programmes. […]

Oxfam has urged UK prime minister Gordon Brown to create a more ‘enabling environment for ethical trade’ in public procurement. […]

Norton Rose has emerged as the top-rated City firm in a diversity performance table for legal practices. The international law […]

The advance of corporate social responsibility is causing some companies to review whether their corporate foundations need to change to […]

Stephen Timms has become the UK’s CSR minister for a second time, raising hopes that the post will regain some […]

Climate change disclosure by Australian corporates could be significantly improved, reports the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of Australia and […]

A specialist governance research and engagement service called Regnan has been set up in Australia by eight institutional investors and […]

The organizers of the 2008 Olympic Games have been urged to consider how they can improve the conditions of workers […]

A group of US apparel and retail companies have sent a second protest letter to the Philippines president over attacks […]

China is being encouraged to redouble its efforts to improve its environment so that its sudden economic growth can be […]

The Mitsui Trust Financial Group has become the first Japanese private company to win permission from the country’s financial regulatory […]

The main triggers for sustainability reporting in China are raising image, supporting government policies, increased enterprise management awareness and media […]

A pilot project is to be started in Shenzhen with the aim of bringing employees into a campaign to improve […]

Save the Children Sweden is to hold talks with selected companies in India on management policy and CSR. The move […]

Westpac bank is claiming to have become the first Australian company outside the energy sector to use its community and […]

A Korean office of Sd3, the London-based sustainability consultancy, has been officially opened at a British embassy event in Seoul. […]

Two Australian companies have become associate members of the Enhanced Analytics Initiative (EAI), an international organization that gathers information from […]

Multinationals involved in cottonseed production in India have rejected suggestions that they are turning a blind eye to the use […]

The Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia is offering its members advanced access to a new online portal […]

The first Sino-European co-operation agreement on corporate social responsibility has been signed with the aim of strengthening ties between Chinese […]