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The SustainAbility consultancy has added its voice to growing calls for companies to treat tax avoidance as a corporate responsibility […]

Revamped social and environmental standards at the World Bank’s private sector lending arm will come into effect at the end […]

Signs are emerging that one of the most significant barriers to investors taking a longer-term interest in a company is […]

An inquiry into the state of CSR in Germany has suggested that the government must significantly increase its commitment to […]

UK companies will have to operate under a significantly tougher anti-corruption regime from 1 July as a result of new […]

Alcoa has reported dramatic reductions in workplace injuries in its European operations. The aluminium company – which has 28,500 employees […]

Drinks company Diageo has placed two responsible drinking advertisements on UK television. The advertisements, which will run until mid-April and […]

Planting millions of trees is no morning-after pill for industry’s carbon excesses, argues Jutta Kill Can tree-planting ‘neutralize’ the climate […]

Companies tendering for supply contracts from the National Health Service in England will have to provide information on their sustainability […]

Plans to create a Europe-wide federation of companies on corporate responsibility have been outlined in the European Commission’s long-awaited second […]

Prominent figures in the US evangelical Christian movement have urged businesses to tackle climate change and have called for regulation […]

The Church of England’s Ethical Investment Advisory Group has decided not to recommend disinvestment from the US-based construction equipment company […]

Banco Real has become the first company to use an online tutorial package to introduce corporate responsibility to all employees. […]

The European Commission’s second white paper on CSR draws a line under more than five years of deliberation by officials. […]

Five years ago the European Commission published a green paper that talked in grand terms of its desire to provide […]

One of the UK’s largest energy companies has taken the unusual step of asking a group of stakeholders to assure […]

Seven food and beverage companies in Singapore have committed themselves to help cut the country’s packaging waste. The effort is […]

A healthy drinking campaign aimed at university students has been started by Diageo Korea, the alcoholic drinks company behind popular […]

One of the first intensive training courses for CSR managers in Asian companies is being held in Beijing on May […]

Senior business executives are being brought face to face with community issues in Asian countries thanks to Crossing Borders, a […]

A campaign to raise awareness of CSR standards such as SA8000 and the OECD’s guidelines for multinationals has been started […]

The head of the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia has called on internet companies to produce a […]

A partnership has been set up with the help of the International Business Leaders’ Forum (IBLF) to benefit communities in […]

Sixteen pressure groups, including Earthrights International, have raised human rights concerns with the Asian Development Bank over the projects in […]

Coal producers in Australia have collectively set aside A$300million ($215m, £125m) to find ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Each […]

A global alliance of tea-packing companies has expanded its ethical supply chain monitoring into Argentina and Brazil. The London-based Ethical […]

Marks & Spencer hopes to steal a march on its competitors this month by becoming the first large UK retailer […]

It’s sensible to be wary of public relations in CSR, but naïve to think you can do without it, says […]

Has a battleship invaded corporate social responsibility’s pond? CSR is usually regarded as a private sector concern, mainly engaging large […]

An index is being drawn up to benchmark UK financial institutions on how responsible they are when lending to consumers. […]

Providing good work-life balance for employees is not linked to better corporate performance, according to new research from the London […]

Final touches are being put to the UK’s first sustainability management standard, due to be published in May by the […]

Peter Whates (editor). BSI Business Information. 234 pages. £40. Paperback. Martin Luther King’s observation that ‘the law can’t make a […]

Companies at high risk of becoming involved in bribery have been given until next July to comply with criteria that […]

University students in China who are considering future employers want to know primarily whether companies make donations and play a […]

Anglo American and BT have shared this year’s award for being the best UK sustainability reporters, breaking the stranglehold of […]

The United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to health is to investigate how pharmaceutical companies can improve the health […]

Google’s decision to censor search results in China on behalf of the authorities has left the company vulnerable to charges […]

About 25 Singapore companies have committed themselves to the Advantage! scheme since it was introduced in October 2005 to help […]

Journalists are more amenable to writing positive articles about CSR than is generally thought, reports new research. A study of […]

Further pressure on business over its climate change impacts has come with a decision by 211 institutional investors to ask […]

One of the largest Antipodean banks is to flesh out a ‘sustainable procurement’ policy for its suppliers this year. Australia […]

One of the biggest tests yet is looming for the Equator Principles on ethical project finance lending, following a decision […]

European soft drinks manufacturers have for the first time jointly agreed voluntary measures to tackle obesity among young people. Members […]

Ever wondered who was the father of modern-day corporate social responsibility? Step forward the 1950s American economist Howard Bowen, who […]

Pub groups and drinks companies are to step up their involvement in a UK initiative that encourages rural pubs to […]

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is claiming to have become the first international law firm to publish a corporate social responsibility report. […]

A document drawn up for the architectural services department of the Hong Kong government is claimed to be the first […]

India, which is soon likely to have the world’s largest population, will play a vital role in the sustainability of […]

A guide has been drawn up by the United Nations Development Programme and the National Aids Secretariat of Papua New […]

International law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has introduced measures to co-ordinate its in-house CSR activities across continental Europe. […]

Beggars in Bangladesh are to receive interest-free loans from the US bank Citigroup to help them to become self-employed. The […]

Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has introduced a whistleblower policy inviting employees to report corruption, abuses of power, security risks and other […]

A key clause on corporate social responsibility in the UK’s Company Law Reform Bill is under threat due to opposition […]

The French navy has shown there is life in CSR beyond the corporate sector by submitting itself to a social […]

Human rights and environmental considerations will be combined in a new overall CSR procurement policy being announced this year by […]

Government should promote an understanding of CSR among businesses in Indonesia, a CSR conference in Jakarta has been told. So […]

A nationwide essay competition on the subject of CSR has been organized in China for students, teachers and practitioners interested […]

Two South African companies have become the first businesses to agree to participate in stakeholder engagement sessions organized by the […]

Three internationally known Asian companies have been named as the most trusted enterprises in their own countries after Microsoft, which […]

Westpac bank has won the Australian Sustainable Company of the Year title in the 2005 Australian Sustainability Awards. The Insurance […]

Nominations are being sought for the 2005 ACCA Hong Kong Awards for Sustainability Reporting, which are given to recognize innovative […]

The second phase of the Business and Peace Programme has been started in the Mindanao region of the Philippines, a […]

Telekom Malaysia is spending 600,000 ringgits ($160,000, £90,000) on a community service campaign to remind Muslim worshippers to respect one […]

Software to help businesses manage their emissions is being made available in Japan and Korea thanks to an alliance formed […]

Proagro, a Bayer Cropsciences subsidiary, is penalizing 11 hybrid cottonseed farmers in Andhra Pradesh, India, and is cancelling its contracts […]

Yozan, the Japanese telecoms company, is to expand its child protection system through a partnership with the international network provider […]

Bank Negara Indonesia, which was restructured in 2004 in an effort to reclaim its position as the country’s first bank, […]

A donation of $1million (£560,000) has been made by the GlaxoSmithKline multinational pharmaceuticals company to the South Asia Earthquake Relief […]

A boxed game available gratis from [email protected] Created by BT to introduce social environmental and ethical dilemmas to business school […]

Imagine, for a moment, that the Conservative Party is a business – a listed company. It has not been performing […]

Religious and pressure groups are continuing their attack on Shell over its actions in Nigeria in advance of the company’s […]