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Community Development

Business and peace programme moves into second stage

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

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February 3, 2006

Community Development

Last call for Hong Kong Awards

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

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February 3, 2006

Community Development

Westpac is most sustainable company

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

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February 3, 2006

Community Development

Toyota among most trusted Asian firms

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

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February 3, 2006

Community Development

A brief anatomy of the consultancy market

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Barclays works with minibankers to reach African poor

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Big business not telling its CSR stories well enough online

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Time for business to have its say on local priorities

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Tory rethink on CSR raises hopes of new consensus

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

EC offers cash for CSR projects

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

FTSE4Good index opens its doors to uranium miners

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Firms in Russia target health

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

M&S ready to extend dairy farm deal

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Chinese companies now have evaluation criteria

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Allegations show confusion on suppliers

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Palm oil sector addresses social obligations

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Unilever shows Oxfam it can be a force for good

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Activists still playing it tough with Wal-Mart

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

O2 generates feedback

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

KLD identifies Sudan links

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Goldman Sachs joins fray

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

US firms hit by ‘trust deficit’ away from home

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Action urged to clear up chaotic post-OFR scene

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Coca-Cola units join forces to tackle health concerns

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Revised GRI guidelines get down to the nitty-gritty

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Shell heading for more trouble over Nigeria oil

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

A cynic’s view of the Tories’ embrace of corporate social responsibility

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

The Better Business Game

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

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February 2, 2006

Community Development

Explorers discover at least 147 different species of CSR

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Parent concerns prompt Sky to beef up controls

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

How the law of unintended consequences hit Wal-Mart

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Corporate lobbying set to hit spotlight

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Levi Strauss heads the pack in Canada

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Capitalism as if the world matters

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 […]

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Samsung is China’s best CSR performer

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Palm oil principles agreed

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Vietnamese CSR project set for big expansion

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Asian banks urged to come forward

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Morocco embraces CSR

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Asia Pacific countries make show in new index

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

CSR school goes to Hong Kong

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Get rewards right ‘and CSR success will follow’

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Hong Kong gets CSR network

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Inditex moves to help factory collapse victims

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Gas rush brings more firms into Burma orbit

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Mining firm prepares PNG villagers for closure

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Business aid sought for disaster response idea

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

HP looks to lead on ethics of personal data storage

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Banks and Treasury agree way forward on dormant money

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

BAT gives loans to poor in Vietnam

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Severn Trent takes two-tier tack on supply audits

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Lawyers find no legal basis for objections to SRI

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Mott MacDonald’s way is slow but sure

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

A shift in business practices does not require a change of heart

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

ABN Amro scales up SRI

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Coalition attacks ‘abject failure’

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Social audits too often ‘sloppy’

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

East Europeans fare well

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Social indicators pinpoint need for change in motor sector

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Unilever health scheme raises productivity

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Anti-CSR lobby sets up annual event

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Community project linked to Beijing Olympics

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

OFR repeal sours NGO relations with government

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

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January 10, 2006

Community Development

Let’s recognize employees who go beyond call of duty

The time is ripe for cross-industry awards that acknowledge staff volunteering, says Scott Keiller Recently I sat on a panel […]

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December 7, 2005

Community Development

Corporations and the public interest: guiding the invisible hand

Steven Lydenberg. Berrett-Koehle Publishers. 170 pages. £16.99 hardback This is a timely publication about moving socially responsible investment on to […]

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December 7, 2005

Community Development

Big business 'needs to move into aid agenda'

Efforts to reduce world poverty will not succeed until aid agencies and governments bring business into the equation, according to […]

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December 7, 2005

Community Development

ICI takes fresh look at its responsibilities

Chemicals group ICI has begun a major review of its corporate social responsibility programmes and policies. The UK-based multinational, which […]

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December 7, 2005

Community Development

Company Law Reform Bill seeks to foster ‘enlightened’ approach

The UK Company Law Reform Bill, published last month, upholds the primacy of shareholders, but says directors need to consider […]

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December 7, 2005

Community Development

Ethical retailers will rely less on auditing supply chains

The audit-dominated era of ethical supply chain management has been declared dead by one of the most influential bodies in […]

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December 7, 2005

Community Development

Best practice urged for Katrina rebuild

Companies helping to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina have been urged to commit themselves to guidelines on how they […]

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December 7, 2005

Community Development

US colleges come top on CSR

North American business schools provide the best MBA coverage of corporate responsibility, according to the latest Beyond Grey Pinstripes survey. […]

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December 7, 2005

Community Development

Central CSR departments lose out at two big firms

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

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December 7, 2005