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A smiling Christine Tona beams out from the front cover of British Land’s employee newsletter. An events manager at Broadgate […]

Imagine, for a moment, a company that is the world’s biggest supplier of a product for which demand is steadily […]

Farah Shirwa came to Britain in 2000, fleeing civil war and oppression in Somalia and determined to create a better […]

Traditional staff bonus schemes have usually paid employees in relation to their company’s financial results. But how would it be […]

It’s not immediately apparent what the world of electricity cables and gas pipes has to do with human rights. Yet […]

Text books will tell you that the middle of a merger is not the best time to launch any major […]

Tensions appear to be rising in Cambodia over a five-year-old programme to improve working conditions in garment factories. The Better […]

Signs are emerging that printed non-financial reports are making a comeback after a period of company experimentation with web-only publication. […]

SRI supporters celebrated a landmark last month when an SRI fund became the UK’s top-performing unit trust for the first […]

Companies are starting to complain that supply chain auditors are failing to drive improvements. EP looks at a sobering assessment […]

Marketing executives are being urged to take much greater account of corporate responsibility. The marketing specialists’ professional body, the Chartered […]

A second European engineering company has decided to quit the troubled African state of Sudan for humanitarian reasons. Siemens, Europe’s […]

Too many companies take a short-term view in their annual CSR statements, according to the judges of this year’s UK […]

Politicians have a role to play in CSR that extends far beyond introducing regulation, says Eric Biel In discussions on […]

Companies have been urged to stop using third party social auditing firms to do their ethical supply chain monitoring because […]

Leading climate change organizations are to create what they hope will be a generally accepted framework for climate risk-related reporting […]

A ‘progressive’ new ethical supply chain monitoring regime that allows auditors to overlook minor legal infringements in order to concentrate […]

Levi Strauss has left the Ethical Trading Initiative after refusing to adopt the ‘living wage’ provision of the ETI’s base […]

The world’s ten main tyre manufacturers are to collaborate on a research programme to assess the social, health and environmental […]

A leading ethical bank is trying to distinguish itself from the socially responsible investment herd by eschewing the terms ‘SRI’ […]

Warner Brothers film.Cert: 15. 143 mins. dir: Edward Zwick Senior executives in the diamond industry will be mightily relieved that […]

The UK government looks set to offload or even abandon its flagship corporate responsibility organization, the CSR Academy, which has […]

Four of Sweden’s state pension funds are to pool their research resources to assess the social and environmental performance of […]

Companies with a relatively heavy impact on climate change have been given just under a year to meet strict new […]

Britain’s insurance industry has asked businesses to improve the quality of their disclosures through greater use of key performance indicators […]

More multinationals have broken ranks with their industry associations by backing Chinese labour law reforms largely opposed by the associations. […]

No leading food company has yet produced a comprehensive social responsibility programme on health and obesity, according to a new […]

Institutional investors have urged the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow shareholder advisory votes on executive remuneration. Thirteen […]

Reading the latest report on ethical trade auditing from the Ethical Trade Initiative (see analysis) companies might be forgiven for […]

The French food group Danone is to invite its shareholders to use their dividends to create a business development fund […]

A 12-month corporate-backed programme to bring safe water to neglected communities will target Bangladesh, China, India and countries in sub-Saharan […]

Senior officials of the Chinese government and administrators from the country’s leading business schools have combined to create a far-reaching […]

Companies working on the Burmese Shwe project to develop a huge natural gas field in the Gulf of Bengal have […]

Grants worth Aus$1.8million (£723,000) over three years have been announced by the Telstra Foundation, a children’s aid group set up […]

ASB Community Trust, Australasia’s biggest philanthropic body, is to use the ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact as […]

Two socially responsible investment vehicles newly set up by Domini Social Investments are believed to be the first US-based ethical […]

More than 100 students have enrolled on a lecture programme started by the non-governmental organization Japan for Sustainability. The programme, […]

Some of the world’s largest coffee companies have been unwittingly sourcing beans from illegal plantations inside an Indonesian wildlife sanctuary, […]

Further signs that the Chinese authorities are beginning to get to grips with the CSR agenda have come from a […]

Companies with poor environmental records in China now risk being rejected for bank loans. Banks are to adopt a more […]

A further 203 signatories to the United Nations Global Compact have been de-listed for failing to issue an annual report […]

A new investment style has emerged during recent months, say two leading analysts. Meg Brown and Mike Tyrrell, sustainable investment […]

Nike has taken the unusual step of publicly disagreeing with the American Chamber of Commerce – of which it is […]

A high-profile loan sought by the business consortium developing the controversial Sakhalin II oil pipeline in Russia has failed to […]

An unlikely conflict has blown up over the phrase ‘corporate social reponsibility’ on the internet reference site Wikipedia. Contributors to […]

A group of multinational retailers is to attempt to develop a single global standard for ethical supply chain management that […]

British companies are having so much trouble working out what to put in forward-looking annual business reviews required under last […]

Proposals for government-brokered ‘responsibility deals’ committing companies to CSR measures in return for a lighter regulatory regime are being considered […]

Marks & Spencer has produced an ambitious 100-point five-year plan on social and environmental issues that, among other things, aims […]

Private equity’s success has invited greater scrutiny and the sector is now facing demands for disclosure of its record on […]

Eleven Spanish multinationals have established a campaign to support the United Nations’ millennium development goals, which set targets on issues […]

The difficulty of raising international standards in an intensely competitive industry sector has been highlighted by the efforts of a […]

A transatlantic alliance has been formed between two organizations involved in ethical workplace monitoring. US-based Social Accountability International (SAI), which […]

Giants have much to learn from the minnows when it comes to corporate social responsibility, new statistics suggest. An analysis […]

Private equity firms never tire of boasting of the stellar returns their backers enjoy. Gone are the days when private […]

2007 is already shaping up to become a year of action on climate change for business, with a plethora of […]

Companies developing socially responsible policies on the acceptance of gifts and hospitality should provide an advice line for employees who […]

Senior figures at the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) have defended their organization from criticism that it is becoming too commercial […]

Investors must make it clear they require governments to take the lead on global warming, says Rory Sullivan Climate change […]

McDonald’s is to serve ‘ethically sourced’ coffee at all its European outlets. The fast food giant started by switching to […]

Two of the UK’s biggest supermarket groups are to stock only Fairtrade-certified bananas. In separate announcements, Sainsbury’s said it would […]

George Monbiot. Allen Lane. 278 pages. Hardback. £17.99 How do you like your gurus? I like mine well informed, brilliantly […]

The Swiss multinational engineering group ABB is halting its work in Sudan because of the country’s increasing political and social […]

The administrators of the Principles for Responsible Investment and the Enhanced Analytics Initiative have announced a ‘formal alignment’ which will […]

Sixteen Hong Kong clothing companies producing well-known brands were found in an Oxfam survey to provide only sketchy information on […]

A trade union has been formed at the Chinese plant of Foxconn, the electronics maker that assembles iPods for the […]

A sustainable development and CSR organization has been established in China by the international business and training consultancy Intertek. The […]

Solar cookers and pans are being given to 1000 rural families in the Banda Aceh region of Indonesia by the […]

One of Malaysia’s largest companies, the infrastructure conglomerate YTL Corporation Berhad, has become a principal supporter of the International Business […]

The mobile phone maker Nokia has introduced training projects to assist young people in finding jobs or setting up small […]

The directors of companies should engage more with the societies in which they trade, executives of the International Business Leaders’ […]

The drinks rivals PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are working on a scientific method of testing pesticide residues in beverages and other […]