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Investors now have a list of all Asia’s socially responsible investment funds to guide them in their choice. The Association […]

The UK government has handed over the running of its flagship corporate responsibility organization, the CSR Academy, to Business in […]

The United Nations’ new secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has eased fears about the level of his commitment to the UN’s Global […]

The superannuation fund VicSuper has been given the Australian award for the best 2006 sustainability report by the Association of […]

Mainstream investors are now adapting SRI investment techniques to help satisfy their clients’ overriding need for good financial returns. EP […]

Deloitte and the German government have jointly set down what they consider to be the principal non-financial key performance indicators […]

Coca-Cola has signed an agreement with the Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) to collaborate on projects to improve community access […]

Most companies are still not being open enough when disclosing their social and environmental impacts, a senior CSR figure has […]

National governments appear to have improved their clear-up rate for complaints made against companies for allegedly breaching the OECD Guidelines […]

A panel of experts has advised the Asian Development Bank to switch its emphasis from supporting economic growth to supporting […]

A group of institutional investors that manage combined assets of £170billion ($340bn) has issued a guidance note calling for an […]

British Gas has set up a free-standing business to lead the company’s efforts to provide low-carbon products and services to […]

Two Sri Lankan companies have begun to promote the principles of the United Nations Global Compact inside packets of a […]

A website has been set up to keep stakeholders in Malaysia informed of companies’ ethical standards. The CSR Malaysia Community […]

The Dutch bank ABN Amro has started the Indian Sustainable Development Fund. This follows the introduction of its SRI funds […]

The Chinese personal computer manufacturer Lenovo has been placed top in the latest Greenpeace green ranking of electronics industry companies. […]

Australia’s largest energy company is to join the Chicago Climate Exchange, the world’s first emission registry and reduction and trading […]

Three British companies have begun using a labelling scheme that recognizes their efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of their […]

Guidelines have been issued to establish ethical standards for financial institutions in Shanghai. The aim is to guarantee stakeholders’ rights […]

British Land says it has stimulated greater interest in its annual CSR report by giving stakeholders the opportunity to question […]

A tracking system is being introduced by Papua New Guinea’s Forest Industries Association to detect any timber exports from illegal […]

Corporate sponsors of a celebrated long-distance sled-dog race in Alaska are being targeted by campaigners who say the event is […]

Normative principles are an essential step towards legally defined standards, says Sir Geoffrey Chandler John Ruggie’s recently submitted final report […]

Companies in central and eastern Europe have been accused of making little progress on corporate responsibility in the 17 years […]

Companies, it’s often said, take more notice of corporate social responsibility once their reputations have taken a serious knock. So […]

The average age of ethical investors in Britain is rising, according to a survey carried out for Friends Provident, the […]

Jan Jonker, Marco de Witte (editors), Springer, 378 pages, hardback. £44 Management Models is an ambitious book – both in […]

EP talks to the Conservative party’s Jonathan Djanogly about the state of his party’s policies on corporate responsibility – and […]

Nestlé has denied suggestions that a whistleblowing system it was supposed to set up five years ago to root out […]

Property management and construction companies have created the UK Green Building Council as an umbrella organization to unite their sustainability […]

A British asset management company has produced a good practice framework to help internet and technology companies improve the way […]

British high street fashion retailer MkOne has withdrawn clothes made in Myanmar after boycott threats. The London-based company, which is […]

The United Nations Human Rights Council will wait until next month to decide whether to extend for another year the […]

Pressure is growing on the global confectionery industry to show that its measures to bear down on child labour at […]

The British government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has produced a CSR strategy that commits it to a greater say on […]

Socially responsible investors in the US have been warned about SRI-like resolutions being proposed for company meetings that reprehend the […]

Chelsea may not win the English Premiership title this year but it has become the first prominent football club to […]

Canadian financial regulators have been urged by a government-appointed body to produce guidelines that would require enhanced disclosure by companies […]

Private equity firms have acted to counter suggestions that their increasing influence poses a threat to corporate social responsibility. Two […]

Business organizations should not be afraid of allowing religion into CSR, says David Miller Many in the corporate world would […]

Businesses are to draw up guidelines on how best to deal with human rights and security dilemmas in Colombia. Tipiel […]

UK financial institutions returning unclaimed assets to their customers are being offered a new service. In recent years the UK […]

The European Commission’s big idea on corporate responsibility – the creation of a Europe-wide federation of companies called the European […]

An American snack food company is to develop an ethical supply chain monitoring programme that goes beyond recent efforts by […]

Charles E. Watson. Praeger. 200 pages. Hardback. £22.95 Business ethicists have worked tirelessly to try to answer the question ‘do […]

One in ten multinationals based in Europe has a strategic commitment to constructive consultation with trade unions, according to a […]

Five years ago, at the height of the furore about Enron, some within the SRI community sought to present CSR […]

Marks & Spencer’s finance arm has launched its first ethical unit trust. The M&S Ethical Fund, which will be jointly […]

Construction and energy companies have formed a specialist international assurance group as part of their efforts to improve the energy […]

The insurance company Aflac has become the first big US company to offer its shareholders a vote on executive pay. […]

Stakeholder panels are only likely to be of value when clear ground rules govern their establishment and they are given […]

Heads of dozens of international companies have come under fire from a prominent institutional investor for drawing up a statement […]

The man tasked with finding a way ahead for the United Nations on business and human rights has asked for […]

Internet users are being given the chance to evaluate the social and environmental performance of companies on a new website […]

The Kellogg’s food company is to use the space on packets of its breakfast cereals as a ‘social marketing’ vehicle […]

Consultancies advising companies on their strategic direction have commanded the highest number of searches by visitors to a new online […]

New figures indicate that annual stand-alone corporate environment reports in the UK are on the way out. Statistics released last […]

Due diligence for mergers and acquisitions is being held back by a lack of good-quality research into the social and […]

This year’s proxy voting season  in the US looks like being one of the liveliest yet. Activist investors, buoyed by […]

European oil and gas companies have consistently outperformed their US counterparts on social and environmental issues for at least the […]

UK companies report only fitfully on their climate change impacts and need to introduce more rigour into their disclosure, says […]

Special recognition for excellence in corporate philanthropy has been paid to Roshan, Afghanistan’s leading telecoms operator, and the Aga Khan […]

A Chinese factory where the manufacture of Disney products stopped after complaints about working conditions has now closed with the […]

A local government office in the Medak district of Andhra Pradesh State, India, has gained SA8000 certification, the standard that […]

One of the main mining companies operating in the Philippines has rejected trenchant allegations made in an international report that […]

A grant of $1million (£520,000) has been promised by the Asian Development Bank’s Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction to improve […]

An education centre for underprivileged girls has been opened in Pune, near Mumbai, by National Grid, Britain’s biggest utility company, […]

Foreign companies operating in Taiwan score only marginally better when it comes to CSR than local ones, according to a […]

A court has issued an order silencing five Indian labour organizations that have protested about work conditions imposed by a […]

The price of the antiretroviral drug Kaletra, used in HIV and Aids treatment, has been reduced in Thailand after negotiations […]

A total of $49,000 (£25,000) has been donated by the US financial services company Bridge Capital to schools and community […]

Corporate Social Responsibility as a ‘business tool’ Thank you for sending me a copy of your new publication Ethical Performance […]