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The Global Reporting Initiative’s sustainability reporting guidelines are undergoing their most radical revision since being released six years ago. A […]

Two companies that make and market Coca-Cola in the UK are to work together more closely to try to reduce […]

Confusion is growing in the UK as to how companies should report on their forward-looking social and environmental risks, now […]

US-based multinationals are less trusted abroad than at home, reports the seventh annual Trust Barometer. The barometer, a survey of […]

US-based investment bank Goldman Sachs has moved to improve its social and environmental performance by agreeing to report publicly on […]

The SRI research consultancy KLD has set up a Sudan Compliance Service to help money managers who are being asked […]

Thousands of people have provided feedback on mobile phone company O2’s latest corporate responsibility report after it offered to donate […]

Socially responsible investors appear in no mood to ease the pressure on retail giant Wal-Mart, despite its dramatic recent announcement […]

Unilever has emerged with a relatively clean bill of health after opening up its books to the anti-poverty group Oxfam […]

Social impacts of the palm oil industry have been given equal prominence with environmental problems in a set of principles […]

The difficulty of determining the degree to which multinationals are responsible for what happens in their supply chains has been […]

Chinese companies can now use the country’s first cross-industry corporate responsibility benchmark. The benchmark, unveiled at a United Nations Global […]

Marks & Spencer is likely to extend a fair trade-style arrangement with UK dairy farmers to insulate them from extreme […]

Businesses operating in Russia are to work together to improve the population’s health, in particular Russians’ eating habits. BP, Interros, […]

Three of the best-known companies in the CSR field will shortly become eligible to join FTSE4Good, following a review of […]

The European Commission has invited applications for a new round of funding for projects that promote CSR. Cash is available […]

CSR has received a significant boost with a commitment by the UK’s second-largest political party to develop policies that promote […]

Companies must play a bigger role in the economic renewal of deprived areas, says Sir Stuart Hampson It wasn’t so […]

Many of the UK’s largest companies are failing to take advantage of the web to communicate their CSR programmes, reports […]

Barclays has begun working with traditional banking agents in Ghana as part of a new programme to loan small sums […]

Assurance, training, and communications are all important areas of work for consultants working to embed responsible practices in company operations […]

The UK government’s decision to abolish the Operating and Financial Review (OFR) has seriously damaged its already shaky relationship with […]

A healthy communities programme is to be piloted by the International Business Leaders’ Forum and the International Life Sciences Institute […]

American free enterprise groups have stepped up their campaign against corporate social responsibility by holding a ‘counter-event’ to the biggest […]

Companies investing in health promotion can obtain almost a fourfold return on their outlay thanks to increased staff productivity, the […]

A sustainability review of the UK motor industry has identified an industry-wide problem with staff retention and led to action […]

Estonia, Slovenia and Lithuania have been judged the best emerging-country performers in an index that ranks companies and governments on […]

The Clean Clothes Campaign has claimed social audits in the garment sector are ‘falling short’ by failing to identify breaches […]

The European finance sector has been ‘largely ineffectual’ in its attempts to address its social and environmental responsibilities over the […]

A large European bank is to triple the money it manages along socially responsible lines.The asset management division of Amsterdam-based […]

When the history of corporate social responsibility is written, 2005 may be remembered not for the furore over the abolition […]

One of the UK’s largest consultancies is to begin CSR reporting this year, but may not initially go public with […]

A team of more than 25 lawyers from around the world has concluded that the prevailing belief among mainstream investors […]

Severn Trent, the UK-based environmental services company with a procurement budget of £1billion ($1.75bn) a year, is aiming to ensure […]

British American Tobacco Vietnam has loaned 687 million dong ($43,000, £25,000) interest-free to more than 200 poor families in Ho […]

UK banks and building societies have finally agreed in principle that unclaimed assets in dormant accounts be redistributed for community […]

Hewlett-Packard is hoping to assemble a group of companies to create a protocol on the ethical use of personal information […]

Corporate backing of £30million ($52m) is being sought for a United Nations-supported initiative to build economic capacity in Africa by […]

The OK Tedi Mining company has presented sawmills together with chainsaws, outboard motors and dinghies to the people of three […]

The lure of gas reserves in Burma has led to a growth in the number of natural resources companies operating […]

Spanish clothing company Inditex is leading a move to set up a ‘solidarity fund’ for victims and families affected by […]

CSR Hong Kong has been set up as an online network for the discussion of ethical issues. People in Asia, […]

The most important thing company boards can do to promote corporate responsibility is to redesign executive pay incentives to take […]

A field trip to look at practical stakeholder engagement is on the programme for this month’s CSR Asia winter school […]

Three Asia Pacific countries appear in the top half of a league table drawn up in a competitiveness and responsibility […]

The Moroccan government says it wants to ‘differentiate’ the country from other emerging markets by gaining a reputation for high […]

Asian banks are being urged to enter the Financial Times’ first global awards recognizing banks that have integrated social and […]

The Vietnam Business Links Initiative, which encourages companies to set up CSR projects on various issues and has so far […]

Eight principles and nine criteria drawn up in Singapore by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) have now been […]

Samsung China leads Chinese Fortune 500 companies on overall CSR performance according to a new list compiled by Nanfang Weekend, […]

Jonathon Porritt. Earthscan, £18.99. www.earthscan.co.uk Bleak and inspiring by turns, Jonathon Porritt’s latest book offers reasons for despair and grounds […]

Levi Strauss has come top in an analysis of how the 25 main clothing retail companies in Canada fare on […]

Behind-the-scenes lobbying activities of UK companies look set to come under intense scrutiny over the next year as pressure groups […]

The world’s largest retailer has been too efficient for its own good, argues Milton Moskowitz Isn’t it odd that the […]

Broadcasting company Sky is stepping up its work on product responsibility in its television and online services. The UK-based business […]

There are almost 150 separate types of activity that can be filed under the heading of corporate responsibility, according to […]

Chief executives of multinationals increasingly believe that the performance of their businesses on social issues such as community involvement and […]

Surprise and anger have greeted news that the UK government has scrapped its requirement on large companies to produce annual […]

A Dutch organization has come up with a way of measuring the progress companies are making towards the United Nations’ […]

McDonald’s has enhanced its status as an increasingly bona fide member of the CSR community by being accepted as a […]

Motor manufacturing giant Ford is to provide training on social and environmental matters to all its suppliers worldwide. The US-based […]

Parents are ready to ‘punish’ companies they feel are marketing to their children in an irresponsible way, according to research […]

Internet companies have been warned by a group of socially responsible investment funds against helping governments in countries with repressive […]

Corporate responsibility may have won its highest profile convert so far with a dramatic announcement by the much criticized Wal-Mart […]

Canada’s largest telecoms company, Bell Canada, is subcontracting parts of its community investment programme to other organizations. The company has […]

The government’s decision to scrap the Operating and Financial Review took everyone by surprise, including, it seems, the Department of […]

Consultation on global responsibility guidelines for the jewellery industry has been extended by five months to March 2006. The guidelines […]

The CSR Academy began an international programme of training last month in conjunction with its newly-appointed global training partner, BSI […]

Concerns have been raised that stakeholder dialogue as practised by large companies often leads to the views of local people […]

Friends of the Earth is to seek a judicial review of last month’s controversial UK government decision to abolish regulations […]

Electronics companies are linking up with telecoms businesses to examine ways of working together on ethical supply chain management. Signatories […]

Evidence that centralized CSR departments can be among the first casualties of corporate restructuring has emerged from drinks company Allied […]