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The energy group Eastern has stepped up its commitment to social responsibility by producing its first sustainability report and promising […]

The two largest financial services companies in the US have now agreed to put in place lending criteria on issues […]

By Leon Olsen Ashridge Centre for Business and Society in association with the British Quality Foundation. 36 pages £40. www.ashridge.com/acbas […]

Dow Chemical Company has become one of the first businesses in the world to give ‘equal weight’ to economic, social […]

EP talks to Alan Knight about his belief that CSR practitioners have lost sight of the pressing global problems that […]

The world’s largest diversified resources company has taken a first step towards formally assessing the exposure of each of its […]

By J. Gary Taylor and Patricia J. Scharlin Yale University Press. 278 pages $30 hardback There have been some brief […]

The state-owned French investment bank Caisse des Depots et Consignations is to create a sustainable development division. The bank, which […]

Office products company Office Depot has formed an alliance with three conservation groups under which it has agreed a five-year […]

Traidcraft, the UK’s biggest fair trade company, has reported its seventh successive year of growth in purchases from suppliers. The […]

The UK’s two main PVC manufacturers have agreed to produce partnership reports looking at the impact of their products on […]

One of Japan’s largest paper and pulp businesses has produced an ‘action charter’ as the foundation for a CSR programme. […]

One of the world’s largest postal and delivery companies has produced its first corporate sustainability report. United Parcel Service of […]

The US division of one of the world’s biggest catering and facilities management companies has sent a code of conduct […]

As the UK government’s CSR Academy begins to take shape, EP looks at the fragmented state of education and training […]

The forthcoming requirement to produce an operating and financial review will significantly extend the reporting responsibilities of large UK companies […]

Tick-box political correctness is in danger of undermining CSR, argues Peter Knight There are five of us in the office, […]

Internet network company Cisco Systems is to establish a global CSR strategy over the next 12 months as part of […]

A UK supermarket chain is to dramatically increase its own-brand fair-trade product range for commercial reasons. The Co-operative Group discovered […]

Employment policies friendly to older people have helped B&Q, Europe’s largest do-it-yourself chain, to win an inaugural corporate-responsibility award. B&Q […]

Rio Tinto has helped farmers near one of its mining sites in Indonesian Borneo to triple their harvest yields in […]

The world’s only corporate social responsibility minister tells EP how two new government measures will have a ‘significant’ impact on […]

Unilever has confirmed it will miss its self-imposed target of sourcing all fish from sustainable sources by 2005. It claims […]

The business world should create a mechanism to distribute grants to non-governmental organizations, suggests Roger Cowe Engagement and dialogue are […]

The investment arm of Europe’s largest mutual insurer is to encourage firms in which it takes a stake to draw […]

Stakeholders of British American Tobacco appear to have become more willing to talk to the group since it published its […]

Only a third of the biggest mining and oil companies have a published policy on biodiversity, even though half are […]

Companies now have a powerful international framework that will help them to address their social impacts, argues Sir Geoffrey Chandler […]

Transparency in social reporting requires companies to acknowledge the bad as well as the good, argues Adrian Henriques At a […]

In the second of our series on the future of corporate social responsibility, EP looks at the forces that are […]

One of the world’s largest paper companies has fallen out with WWF, the global environmental network, over its new sustainability […]

Good CSR practice is built on sound corporate governance, says Craig Mackenzie Good corporate governance is a prerequisite for truly […]

A leading UK fund manager is working with the government on the corporate risks posed by climate change. Isis Asset […]

UK organizations researching companies’ ethical performance are developing new products and services in the expectation that the pension disclosure regulation […]

Friends Provident is to launch a new ethical fund early next year. A spokesman declined to specify what kind of […]

Suncor Energy, the Canadian oil and gas company, has more than doubled its proportion of aboriginal employees in five years. […]

Hewlett-Packard (Canada) has put up C$2million (US$1.54m, £910,000) to create a chair in corporate social responsibility at Toronto’s Schulich School […]

The company that owns Heathrow Airport has decided to develop a set of social performance indicators next year. BAA Heathrow […]

Telecoms companies now have their own supplement to the Global Reporting Initiative’s sustainability reporting guidelines. The supplement, which companies are […]

Three more large companies have joined the Cement Sustainability Initiative, an international project to improve the cement industry’s social and […]

Food and drinks conglomerate Diageo has produced corporate citizenship guidelines for its 77,000 employees around the world. The guidelines, which […]

The world’s largest music publishing company has unveiled a social responsibility policy. EMI Group, which has a roster of 1000 […]

A second international tobacco company is to compile a social report. Imperial Tobacco, the world’s fourth largest, expects to publish […]

Three-quarters of the production sites owned by the sugar and food ingredients group Danisco now comply with the company’s CSR […]

Building materials group RMC has invited some of its stakeholders to identify areas where the company can improve its environmental […]

Sustainability policies require transparent performance indicators that adequately reflect stakeholder interests, says Melanie Eddis Nowadays, televised football bombards you with […]

Adidas-Salomon is the best-performing company in the global sports shoe industry, according to a Belgian socially responsible investment analyst firm. […]

Prudential is to launch a ‘middle ground’ ethical fund in its pension range within the next couple of months. The […]

Wessex Water is to offer farmers up to £40 per hectare to convert to organic methods. The utility company says […]

One of the world’s major nuclear energy companies is to implement a full corporate social responsibility strategy by 2008. British […]

The UK chemical industry has taken a step towards greater transparency by declaring it will publish social and environmental goals […]

Procter & Gamble has revealed that it closed a manufacturing plant in the developing world for four months after taking […]

Oil and petroleum multinational ChevronTexaco is to issue its 53,000 staff with corporate responsibility guiding principles. The principles, developed as […]

Oil and mining companies should exercise leadership to ensure host countries benefit from their operations, argues Daniel Litvin One senior […]

The progress made by US companies in the field of CSR is largely the result of an overriding need to […]

The Global Reporting Initiative is mulling plans to link its reporting guidelines to the AA1000 assurance standard, a framework for […]

Procter & Gamble is to introduce fair trade coffee into its US product range through its coffee division Millstone. US […]

Social responsibility is often thought of as something companies can choose to practise if they wish. Even voluntary actions, however, […]

The Body Shop has reclaimed its position as an innovator in non-financial reporting by issuing three separate social reports aimed […]

Toyota, a new entrant to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, was last month judged best in class in its […]

Field schools for West African cocoa farmers have been started by international cocoa and chocolate manufacturers to combat child labour. […]

British American Tobacco has said it still does not agree that businesses should pull out of Burma (also known as […]

Anglo American and Rio Tinto have been identified by a UK institutional investor as ‘among the leading companies of any […]

Companies should be talking to a much wider range of interested parties when they audit their supply chains, says Sarah […]

Four major oil and gas companies have agreed to consider biodiversity when they select new development sites and decommission old […]

Carillion has won the Impact on Society Award at this year’s Business in the Community’s Awards For Excellence. Judges said […]

ExxonMobil is to invest $100million (£63m) in a project that will look at ways of substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions. […]

The European Commission and the International Labour Organization are encouraging companies to downsize responsibly. How can this be done? Last […]

Hewlett-Packard heads a corporate social responsibility rating of the world’s seven largest computer companies. The US firm was the best […]

A business that follows ethical principles should maximize long-term value, says Elaine Sternberg It is difficult to make a business […]

More than 50 suppliers of BT have now signed contractual agreements to work towards the company’s in-house standards on human […]

Nike has abandoned publication of its corporate responsibility report, despite reaching an out-of-court settlement to bring the long-running Kasky v […]