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Community Development

Pfizer lags in EIRIS ranking

Two newly released research briefings on how companies are managing their responsibilities in respect of public health clearly illustrate the […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Climate change is next on FTSE4Good's agenda

Further pressure on companies to respond to climate change will be generated by a decision on the part of FTSE4Good […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Thames answers its stakeholders in public

The world’s third-largest water company has found a novel way of engaging with its stakeholders on social and environmental issues. […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

£300,000 funding gives Academy fresh impetus

The CSR Academy is to expand its activities after being given £300,000 ($547,000) by the UK government for another year. […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Coca-Cola firm gets dedicated CSR manager

Coca-Cola Enterprises has created its first dedicated corporate social responsibility role in the UK as it prepares to raise its […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

CSR heads drafted in to shape new policy

Three senior CSR practitioners at FTSE 100 companies are among members of a new task force set up by the […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Eurosif targets institutions

Transparency guidelines for institutional SRI funds are to be developed by the European Social Investment Forum (Eurosif) in the wake […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Health programmes 'are key part of social responsibility'

UK companies are to be urged by Business in the Community to introduce more healthy-living programmes for their employees as […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Eight more join South African SRI crowd

Eight more companies have joined the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s SRI index as a result of its first annual review of […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Gold company comes clean on payments to Congo militia

The multinational gold mining company AngloGold Ashanti has pledged to clamp down on facilitation payments after admitting that some of […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Non-financial report audits slow to increase, but give more detail

The percentage of major global companies to have their corporate responsibility reports independently assured has barely risen in the last […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

US flower sector starts work on eco-label idea

The $16billion (£8.8bn) flower industry in the US began to develop a domestic sustainability standard last month with the introduction […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Data collection demands get Disney animated

Simply keeping up-to-date records on suppliers is one of the main challenges of Walt Disney’s global programme to monitor labour […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Firms to get Dalits code

Companies operating in South Asia are to be invited to sign up to principles that will commit them to tackling […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Starbucks customers get CSR with their coffee

Starbucks is to host meetings in its UK coffee houses for local people to discuss corporate responsibility issues. The global […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Social auditing tools are simply not enough

Companies, NGOs and auditors alike need to broaden their approach to ethical supply chain management, argues Lisa Kantor For nearly […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Hedge fund for ethical investors

UK-based Armajaro Asset Management introduces the first pan-European SRI hedge fund this month. The fund, named Coolum Strategus, will short […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Business leaders want climate change lead

The heads of 13 UK and international companies have written a letter to prime minister Tony Blair demanding a ‘strong […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

New textile standard unveiled

A new standard has been established for the Chinese textile industry, the country’s first socially responsible auditing benchmark for the […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Henkel takes the plaudits

Chemicals company Henkel has come top of a new ranking of German corporate sustainability reporters. Henkel scored 494 points out […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

US businesses 'need to help on tsunami'

The resources of US businesses should be pooled and directed through public-private partnerships to improve their assistance to the devastated […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Tobacco company wins CSR award

The Indian Tobacco Company has won the Corporate Social Responsibility Award 2004 from The Energy and Resources Institute for its […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

IT companies go family friendly

Three Japanese information technology companies have introduced policies to make it easier for employees to work while raising a family, […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Time is ripe for corruption and bribery to move into CSR's extended family

Are bribery and corruption the poor relations of corporate social responsibility? Their inclusion in responsible business practice guidelines often seems […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Bringing human rights within a risk management framework

How does a multinational company go about trying to integrate human rights in its operations? EP looks at the approach […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Japanese firms to report on climate change

About 8000 companies will report their greenhouse gas emissions under a law passed by Japan last month in its efforts […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Corporate responsibility in context: a pocket guide

Context. 44 pages, paperback. Free. For details of how to obtain a copy, please email the address shown below. The […]

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July 5, 2005

Community Development

Retail companies ponder response to factory disaster

A CSR consultant has been called in to advise European retailers that have sourced goods from a Bangladeshi clothing factory […]

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June 14, 2005

Community Development

Taiwan gets first CSR website

The CSR in Taiwan website is now live after almost a year of preparation by the Industrial Development and Investment […]

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June 10, 2005

Community Development

'pariah' industries not as bad as they are painted

Some industries in Australia, notably mining, are more sustainable than generally assumed, says a new report. The study, by Sydney […]

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June 10, 2005

Community Development

Coca-Cola condemns ‘brand-jacking’ activists

Coca-Cola has hit back at campaigners in India whom it claims are causing the company undeserved reputational damage over its […]

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June 10, 2005

Community Development

Showa Denko gets CSR committee

A CSR committee and related office will be established on 1 July by the Japanese Showa Denko K.K. group, which […]

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June 10, 2005

Community Development

Chinese companies make pledge on Aids

Commitments have been made by 26 companies operating in China to tackle HIV/Aids in their workplaces and their communities. Their […]

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June 10, 2005

Community Development

Kiwi investors 'fall down on climate change'

Too few investors in New Zealand are aware of initiatives elsewhere in the world that tackle climate change and ensure […]

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June 10, 2005

Community Development

Microsoft promotes digital inclusion in Philippines

Microsoft has opened two centres in the Philippines to add to the information technology teaching it already provides under its […]

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June 10, 2005

Community Development

Call for tax breaks for caring companies

The Malaysian government has been asked to offer tax incentives to companies willing to hire reformed drug addicts. The Malaysian […]

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June 10, 2005

Community Development

Australian firms praised for community efforts

The winners of the 2004 Australian Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships improved the lives of remote […]

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June 1, 2005

Community Development

China gets CSR research programme

A one-year CSR research programme is to be carried out by the China Pudong Cadre College in Shanghai and the […]

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June 1, 2005

Community Development

Laos dam project gets go ahead

The controversial Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric dam in Laos is finally to go ahead with loans of $1billion (£540m) from […]

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June 1, 2005

Community Development

SRI symbol unveiled

An SRI symbol has been produced by the Ethical Investment Association to show that a product or service offers investments […]

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June 1, 2005

Community Development

Asia is centre of forced labour

A new study by the International Labour Organization shows that 9.5 million of the 12.3 million people in forced labour […]

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June 1, 2005

Community Development

Asian taskforce holds first meeting

The first meeting of the Asia Pacific Task Force Outreach Group was held by conference call in April. The group […]

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June 1, 2005

Community Development

Oxiana makes reporting debut

Oxiana, the Australian mining and exploration company, whose main assets are in Laos, has produced its first sustainability report. The […]

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June 1, 2005

Community Development

Birgden joins UniSuper

Helga Birgden has taken up the new post of manager of governance and sustainable investments in the investment department of […]

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June 1, 2005

Community Development

Japan firm to aid all-in-one reporting initiative

The Japanese consultancy Sunrise Advisers is to market and sell SRI World Group’s OneReport services in Japan under a newly […]

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June 1, 2005

Community Development

The EC needs to stop worrying about its critics and get on with the job

Five years ago this month, the European Commission announced that corporate social responsibility would become one of the priority areas […]

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June 1, 2005

Community Development

Aviva targets volunteering

Aviva Australia, part of the international Aviva insurance group, hopes to increase staff volunteering to ten per cent of full-time […]

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June 1, 2005

Community Development

Timber sector rallies round for Aceh

Wood will be sent by the US timber industry to Indonesia for the rebuilding of Aceh province, where the Indian […]

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June 1, 2005

Community Development

An investor’s guide to ethical and socially responsible investment funds

Consultant editor John Hancock. Kogan Page. 320 pages, £55 hardback Three well-known organizations in the socially responsible investment field in […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Tobacco firms test water with project to counter child labour

The tobacco industry has begun a pilot programme to eliminate child labour in parts of the former Soviet republic of […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Caterpillar defeats bulldozer vote

An attempt by human rights activists to force the US-based construction equipment company Caterpillar to look into the use of […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Three-year haul brings dividends for six retail pioneers

Six companies broke new ground last month by completing a three-year programme of ethical supply chain monitoring in conjunction with […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Compact unveils plan to get tough on ‘free riders’

Signatory companies to the United Nations’ Global Compact that fail to deal with allegations that they are not observing its […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Wicks becomes Labour’s fifth CSR minister

The Labour Party’s UK election win last month has brought a new corporate social responsibility minister into office. Malcolm Wicks, […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Water companies target young offenders

UK water companies Anglian and Thames have joined forces to launch a recruitment programme offering training and jobs for young […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Nedcor makes big switch to black suppliers

The amount of money the South African banking group Nedcor spends with black businesses rose to 22 per cent of […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

OFR regime is now complete

The last element of the UK’s Operating and Financial Review regime was put in place last month with the publication […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Accor extends initiative to combat sex tourism

A corporate responsibility programme on sex tourism adopted by one of the world’s largest hotel chains is to be extended […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Investors call for emission reports

Twenty-six institutional investors have released a ten-point action plan calling on US companies to provide ‘comprehensive analysis and disclosure’ about […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Stem cell research raises its head as an SRI issue

Shareholder activists in the US have signalled they believe stem cell research could become a hot topic for socially responsible […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

EC white paper stalled as wrangling continues

Political disagreements have led to further postponement of the European Commission’s long-awaited second CSR communication. The communication, also known as […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

BAE takes committee route

A board committee on corporate responsibility is to be established by the defence company BAE Systems. The multinational is finalizing […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

FoE uses CSR as recruiting sergeant

Friends of the Earth is using a tough line on corporate social responsibility as part of its latest membership recruitment […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Retail companies ponder response to factory disaster

A CSR consultant has been called in to advise European retailers that have sourced goods from a Bangladeshi clothing factory […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Coca-Cola condemns ‘brand-jacking’ activists

Coca-Cola has hit back at campaigners in India whom it claims are causing the company undeserved reputational damage over its […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Third sector should take leaf from business book

Companies have a lot to teach charities about social responsibility, argues Jon Duschinsky A while back, I was a reluctant […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

General Electric checks supplier compliance

The world’s most respected company has identified almost 18,000 possible instances of its suppliers failing to comply with its core […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Canadians see SRI assets jump

Assets managed in Canada using a socially responsible investment approach have grown in value by more than a quarter in […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Atlantic drift may bring proxy voting transparency to UK

Sarbanes-Oxley has opened the proxy voting records of thousands of US mutual funds to public scrutiny, adding a new dimension […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Anglo American reaps benefit of Aids strategy

An international mining company’s decision to provide free Aids treatment to its employees has begun to show a clear business […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Index needs bigger push, say frustrated investors

Business in the Community has been criticised for failing to communicate the results of its corporate responsibility index adequately to […]

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May 31, 2005

Community Development

Sympathetic Asian employers outperform others

The 13 best employers in Asia in the Hewitt Associates 2005 study were found to outperform other companies. Research by […]

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May 10, 2005