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Lenders need to apply social and environmental screens to the projects they finance to minimize reputational risk, says Alan Banks […]

ExxonMobil has softened its stance on global warming. In an advertisement in the New York Times the US oil company […]

McDonald’s is to develop ‘social compliance plans’ with its suppliers to help them meet the terms of its code of […]

Four banks were among the UK’s top ten corporate community contributors last year. Statistics from the Directory of Social Change […]

Nike has announced a ‘remediation plan’ to deal with poor working conditions at its contract factories in Indonesia. The sports […]

Iberia airlines has been honoured in Spain’s first corporate social responsibility awards. The company won one of the three categories […]

A commitment to responsible behaviour at the Aveda beauty products company has extended to the thorny problem of how to […]

The Amnesty International UK Business Group is to begin work on producing a set of human rights guidelines for financial […]

Shell has won the fifth European Environmental Reporting Awards. Danish company Novo Nordisk took the best sustainability report award, Austria’s […]

Ford is appointing a diversity manager and will examine its corporate citizenship policies in Britain as part of an equal […]

  UK-based food and drug retailer The Boots group has developed a community investment intranet site to encourage staff members […]

Pioneering retailers have established that it is possible to audit the social and environmental performance of their suppliers in developing […]

The University of Nottingham has defended its decision to establish an International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility using money donated […]

Business leaders will discuss new ways of measuring a company’s reputational capital at a conference in London this spring. The […]

Four utilities companies have been chosen on a shortlist of finalists for the 2000 UK Environmental Reporting Awards. Anglian Water, […]

The engineering group GKN has begun considering how to take corporate social responsibility into account in its business practices. The […]

Chris Marsden confesses to being daunted by his latest role. The former head of BP’s community affairs team is to […]

Credit Suisse Group has said it is ‘astonished’ at a decision by the Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index (DJSGI) to […]

New sustainability indicators for the UK construction industry have been finalised and will be launched by the end of the […]

The airports operator BAA has made a major new commitment to help reduce aircraft noise at its facilities after identifying […]

British Airways (BA) has produced its first social and environmental report. The airline, which is the biggest in the world, […]

Diamond companies across the world have agreed to devise a verification system that will attempt to end the trade in […]

The Boots Group cut its carbon dioxide emissions relative to turnover by four per cent in the last financial year. […]

The UK’s fifth largest bank has issued a new set of ethical guidelines as a framework for its investment policies. […]

Companies trying to address ethical issues in their supply chains have been warned it may take up to 15 years […]

International pharmaceutical company GlaxoWellcome will do more to reduce work-related mental health problems among its staff, amid fears that its […]

Some of the UK’s largest companies look set to become involved in an initiative to help regenerate former mining communities. […]

The UK’s second largest high street bank is claiming to have achieved a 14.5 per cent increase in the number […]

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer is to give away its expensive meningitis drug Difulcan to thousands of South Africans suffering from […]

Camelot, the UK national lottery operator, has published its first social audit. Ed Mayo, director of the New Economics Foundation […]

A new software package that analyses the ethical performance of nearly 2000 international companies is to be offered to investors. […]

Companies wishing to attract ethical investors need to make information on their corporate social responsibility initiatives more readily available to […]

The United Nations has offered to help businesses on corporate responsibility issues. UN secretary general Kofi Annan has said he […]

Further evidence of a positive link between shareholder value and sound environmental performance has been furnished by a new study […]

Ladies fashion retailer New Look has begun supply chain audits in a number of countries, including Turkey and Cambodia. This […]

Car manufacturers, oil companies and the financial services industry are judged to be the worst corporate offenders when it comes […]

The Co-operative Bank has outlined ambitious new plans to become a world leader in corporate responsibility by measuring its indirect […]

The food company Kraft is to embark on the third phase of a social marketing programme for disadvantaged children in […]

Kuoni – Europe’s sixth-largest travel company – has announced it will stop offering holidays in Burma at the end of […]

Sainsbury’s is claiming to have become the first UK supermarket to appoint a community resources manager to co-ordinate policy on […]

The Co-operative Insurance Society is to offer its five million policyholders a say in developing the SRI policy applied to […]

Novo Nordisk is looking at ways to expand its supply chain monitoring to include ‘social considerations’. The Denmark-based biotechnology and […]

The first phase of a project to improve labour conditions at Chinese factories supplying UK companies will concentrate on health […]

Only one of Finland’s large retailers is showing a firm public commitment to corporate social responsibility, a study suggests. Kesko, […]

Too many European banks are slow on the uptake when it comes to devising socially and environmentally responsible lending policies, […]

BSkyB is to employ journalistic techniques to explain the company’s social responsibility strategy to staff. The UK-based broadcaster, which has […]

Alan MacDougall takes issue with Peter Knight’s recent attack on ‘tick-box political correctness’ A response is needed to Peter Knight’s […]

Nestlé has been admitted to a list of stocks approved as socially responsible by an investment research firm based in […]

To mark this 50th issue, EP considers the forces shaping corporate social responsibility – and looks at how the field […]

The Co-operative Bank has won the UK’s main award for sustainability reporting for the third year running. The bank was […]

The voluntary approach has its limits. Mandatory corporate disclosure would help markets, not hinder them, argues Sir Geoffrey Chandler ‘You […]

Pharmaceuticals companies, investors and stakeholders are being brought together to consider long term challenges to the industry, including how it […]

The world’s fourth largest tobacco group has set out the corporate responsibility standards that it hopes to meet during the […]

Marks & Spencer is hoping its move to a new head office in the second half of 2004 could become […]

An American telecommunications company is encouraging its customers to become more active on social and environmental issues by including information […]

Large UK retail groups are to be invited to open stores and branches in deprived areas as part of a […]

Employees of a multinational oil company are to receive training on a new policy that forbids them to pay bribes […]

Food manufacturers and supermarkets have been urged to boycott eggs from battery hens before a European ban on their use […]

Opinion formers think a company can most effectively demonstrate its commitment to social responsibility by entering into partnerships, a poll […]

British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) has begun preparatory work on a social audit that could lead to publication of the group’s […]

One of the UK’s leading shopping centre owners has formed a corporate responsibility implementation team to help it to meet […]

Corporate social responsibility has had a pretty easy ride so far. A few free-market thinkers have taken potshots, but even […]

The key question surrounding the operating and financial review is a simple one. Will the UK government’s proposals to force […]

UK high street banks are moving towards support for shared branches as part of a programme to tackle social exclusion. […]

Bureau Veritas Quality International has certified Chiquita’s banana farms in Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama to the SA8000 ethical workplace […]

Procedures in the UK for handling complaints brought against companies for allegedly breaching OECD guidelines on responsible corporate behaviour do […]

Corporate fundraisers working for charities might want your money, but some of their colleagues are likely to be far more […]

One of Canada’s leading banks says it will implement a wide ranging ethical policy by the end of next year. […]

Companies with the best CSR programmes don’t need to bombard journalists with PR, says Alison Maitland of the Financial Times […]

Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM have become the targets of a campaign against unacceptable working conditions in supply chains. As part […]

There is, broadly speaking, an international consensus that the voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility is the best way forward. […]

Canada’s Suncor Energy is the outright winner in the second annual North American Sustainability Reporting Awards. The Alberta-based oil and […]