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Poor market conditions have led to eight redundancies at KPMG’s Sustainability Advisory Services (SAS) group, which gives advice to companies […]

Ten banks from leading financial centres have agreed voluntary guidelines for assessing social and environmental risks when financing development projects. […]

The BBC has set up an in-house Corporate Social Responsibility Centre to deliver its CSR programme over the next few […]

One of the UK’s leading retailers is to scrap its entire ethical trading department and curtail its corporate social responsibility […]

The largest financial services group in the Scandinavian and Baltic Sea region is developing a corporate social responsibility programme. Nordea, […]

The UK’s largest food retailer is seeking to dispel fears that it is reducing its commitment to ethical trading. Tesco […]

Marks & Spencer has produced its first document outlining a proposed corporate social responsibility programme. The own-brand retail chain’s CSR […]

Carillion and National Grid Transco have been short-listed in the large company section of the UK’s annual Impact on Society […]

Companies should follow the public’s example and not look too closely at what motivates their philanthropy, says Ian MacQuillin Bad, […]

Oil and gas company Total has used its first CSR report to defend its presence in Burma (Myanmar). The French […]

The US Supreme Court has agreed to review a California court ruling against Nike that the company claims is a […]

Music Television (MTV), part of the global media company Viacom, is making its senior executives more aware of community issues […]

Nine out of ten sites run by Anglo American are expected to have community engagement plans in place by the […]

A BT discussion paper has accused the UK government of exhibiting ‘disturbing fatalism’ when it comes to intervening on corporate […]

Starbucks has dramatically increased the number of long-term contracts it signs with developing-country coffee growers in an attempt to provide […]

A ‘ceasefire’ has been agreed between the world’s largest financial services company and an environmental non-governmental organization. Rainforest Action Network […]

The world’s two largest coffee trading groups are to work with the Rainforest Alliance to improve the social and environmental […]

Companies need to press national governments to show more commitment to basic international standards, says Craig Mackenzie Last year in […]

Companies that sell infant formula milk and wish to qualify as members of the FTSE4Good indexes are likely to have […]

ExxonMobil is now alone among the four ‘supermajor’ oil and gas companies in refusing to take meaningful action on global […]

Fourteen supplier factories of the sports clothing company Adidas-Salomon had their contracts severed last year due to poor workplace conditions. […]

How does a mainstream investor take account of social and environmental considerations within its investment process? EP asked Standard Life […]

McDonald’s Brazil has issued its first social report. The fast food chain, which has 36,000 employees in the country, spent […]

Three-quarters of Dutch pension funds expect to take the social, environmental or ethical performance of companies into account when making […]

An alliance on responsible timber production between Danish multinational DLH and Greenpeace has broken down over allegations by the firm […]

Half of UK retailers still do not have a code of conduct for their suppliers, a study has found. Of […]

A major UK charity is to investigate factories that supply Littlewoods as a direct result of the retail group’s decision […]

Pension funds need to disclose not just their SRI policy, but also how they are putting it into practice, says […]

One of the UK’s leading socially responsible investment fund managers says it has been ‘reassured’ by mobile phone operators over […]

Insurance firm Legal & General has produced its first corporate social responsibility report. The web-based document is unusual in that […]

Chief executives expect a good reputation on social issues to be as important to a company’s overall standing as financial […]

A US Supreme Court ruling on the Nike v Kasky case, which has brought social reporting into the spotlight in […]

Fast food corporation KFC has said it will resist an international campaign by animal welfare activists over alleged cruelty to […]

Skanska has cited the lack of commitment shown by other construction companies to social and environmental guidelines on dam building […]

A $1.5million (£950,000) community development programme in Africa has been unveiled by GlaxoSmithKline. The pharmaceuticals firm is spending the money […]

One of the world’s largest insurance companies is setting out a long-term plan to improve its corporate social responsibility. Netherlands-based […]

There are three main ways to encourage directors and shareholders to take greater account of CSR, says Roger Cowe CSR […]

Firms that make alcoholic drinks should voluntarily put responsible drinking messages on their products and in their adverts, an influential […]

A leading UK charity is to disinvest from BP over concerns about the oil company’s ethical performance in the past […]

Some of the UK’s largest construction companies are to take the unusual step of urging their clients to push them […]

The diamond industry is to begin using a monitoring system in the new year that will trace diamonds from their […]

Aluminium giant Alcoa is to publish a combined environmental and community report alongside its financial annual report this year. The […]

Intervention in Iraq has raised important issues of corporate responsibility, argues Gerry Hagelberg The US-led invasion of Iraq and its […]

Cable & Wireless has pledged to build environmental criteria into the selection of its suppliers. The UK-listed telecoms giant, which […]

A US pharmaceutical company is piloting a new way of widening access to medicines in the poorest parts of the […]

The global toy industry is to begin auditing manufacturing sites throughout the world against a set of ethical business principles. […]

AT&T has produced its first corporate citizenship report. The unverified document covers what the telecoms giant believes are its main […]

The decision of the Securities and Exchange Commission to require US mutual funds to disclose their proxy voting policies and […]

Fresh food firm Chiquita has detected a marked increase in worker satisfaction and commitment to the company since it began […]

The test of materiality will make life harder for CSR reporters, Adrian Henriques argues The UK government white paper Modernising […]

British Gas has formed an alliance with seven charities to help tackle fuel poverty in the UK. The energy company, […]

There are huge differences in the approaches large oil companies are taking to climate change, according to an analysis of […]

Social performance indicators for financial institutions have been set out in a supplement to the Global Reporting Initiative’s guidelines on […]

It’s time for investors who engage with companies to agree core ethical standards, says Craig Mackenzie Large institutional shareholders are […]

Life sciences company Novo is to assess its suppliers using a new evaluation system that puts their social and environmental […]

Procter & Gamble is adopting a new approach to corporate social responsibility that places as much emphasis on developing socially […]

Dutch chemicals firm DSM is to produce its first triple bottom line annual report. The document will be published early […]

Dow Chemicals has found itself at the centre of a debate on the limits of corporate accountability as non-governmental organizations […]

Eleven oil companies are to break new ground in transparency by declaring how much money they pay to three governments […]

Shell has adopted a socially responsible investment approach to some of the money it manages in its pension fund for […]

The UK transport services group Go-Ahead has published its first combined social and environmental report. The 64-page document, which is […]

Westpac has come top in an annual index of corporate reputation in Australia. The bank, which recently produced its first […]

Department store retailer John Lewis has created a corporate social responsibility committee. The nine-strong committee has been set up to […]

Promises, promises, promises. Companies seem hell-bent on making them in their social and environmental reports. And why not? Pledges and […]

A major UK asset manager has said it wants to see the companies it invests in comply with internationally recognized […]

Nestle is to appoint a number of ombudsmen charged with the task of uncovering unethical marketing of its baby milk […]

Mining group BHP Billiton is to increase the proportion of aborigines in its workforce in Western Australia. The Melbourne-based multinational […]

Corporate social responsibility information belongs in the main company report, says Gerry Hagelberg With all the standards, codes, rules, guidelines, […]

Flexible working at BT has benefited staff and the company, according to research by the University of Bradford. A survey […]

The Californian wine industry has introduced a code of social and environmental conduct. The voluntary ‘code of sustainable wine-growing practices’ […]

Life sciences company Amersham has published its first combined social and environmental report. Amersham, which employs 9500 people around the […]

Nearly half of multinational company executives – 49 per cent in the US and 45 per cent in Europe – […]