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Balfour Beatty makes strides on accident rates

The engineering and construction multinational Balfour Beatty reduced its accident frequency rate by 16 per cent last year. The latest […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Could latest merger be sign of things to come?

Two prominent corporate responsibility consultancies – Csrnetwork and Sd3 – are to merge on 1 January amid suggestions that a […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Corporate social responsibility: readings and cases in a global context

A Crane, D Matten, L Spence (eds) Paperback. 544 pages. Routledge. £32.50. This collection of essays  drawn together under three […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Aviva’s SRI clause gives strong signal to clients

One of the world’s leading fund management companies has broken new ground by inserting an SRI clause into all its […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Chiquita issues first CSR report

Fresh food company Chiquita has produced its first corporate responsibility report. The 100-page document commits the company, which produces roughly […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Lessons from the biggest bankruptcy in US history

The collapse of Enron gives new urgency to the corporate social responsibility debate. Managers like to stress the difficulties of […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Ericsson puts phones at disposal of the UN

Swedish mobile phone group Ericsson has lent $5million (£3.5m) of equipment, free of charge, to the United Nations to help […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Corporate liability picture still unclear after Cape case

Hopes that the courts would clear up confusion about the liability of UK companies for harm alleged to have been […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Phillips reaps rewards from community strategy

An oil and gas company facing a vociferous campaign over alleged health hazards at one of its terminals has allayed […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

BA gets wake-up call on social reporting

British Airways has been told it needs to improve the scope of its social and environmental reporting. The call has […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

major investment manager offers SRI to its clients

One of the world’s largest investment management firms, State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), has formed a ‘strategic alliance’ with the […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Chocolate firms begin assault on slave labour

Chocolate manufacturers in Europe and the US have come together to produce a strategy to tackle child slave labour in […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Agilent takes the web route

Technology company Agilent is to put its social and environmental reporting onto the web next year. The US-based company, which […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Daimler gets top marks

DaimlerChrysler has come top in an assessment of the sustainability policies of ten large car manufacturers. The study, carried out […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Auditors find fault with Railtrack reporting

Auditors have heavily criticized Railtrack’s Social Responsibility Report, which has been published on the company’s web site. In the report, […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Nike makes reporting debut

Nike has released its first corporate responsibility report. The document, which uses Global Reporting Initiative guidelines, concentrates mainly on labour […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

BASF makes progress with tailor-made codes

The world’s largest chemical group has said it will have established individual codes of conduct within all its divisions by […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Ikea completes talks on code

Retail group Ikea has completed face-to-face visits to all its 2000 suppliers to explain its code of conduct. Ikea says […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Guardian takes mayor’s award

Guardian Newspapers has won the ‘corporate community involvement newcomer’ award for its work with schools in London under the Lord […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

UK chemicals industry gears up for CSR assault

The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) is holding its first-ever session on corporate social responsibility at next month’s annual conference. The […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

BT goes online with debate

BT is to produce a summary of a two-week online debate on the digital divide held last month. The initiative […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Bank gives £10m to young people

The Royal Bank of Scotland is to provide the Prince’s Trust with around £10million ($14.5m) in what the young people’s […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Kingfisher unveils global CSR plans

The retail group Kingfisher has outlined plans to improve the social and environmental performance of its 16 operating companies. The […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Sony looks to bridge divide

Technology company Sony is jointly leading an initiative to look at how business can help bridge the ‘digital divide’ between […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Nestle tries to tackle questionnaire fatigue

One of the world’s largest food companies has become so fed up with processing questionnaires on its ethical performance that […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Oil companies urged to declare conflict zone cash

Oil companies working in conflict zones or highly corrupt countries should be required to declare exactly how much they pay […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Rhodia takes French prize

The chemical company Rhodia has received an award for the best annual environment report in France. Rhodia won the second […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Bayer lays out social progress for first time

The health care and chemicals group Bayer has reported for the first time on aspects of its social performance. The […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

BP offers help to East Timor

A scheme to help raise living standards in East Timor has been launched by BP in conjunction with the Save […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

BBC aims to be a top CSR performer by 2005

The BBC is to draw up a corporate social responsibility framework as part of a drive to become a leader […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Reed Elsevier takes action on its social performance

One of the world’s largest publishing companies has signalled its intention to take greater account of its social and environmental […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

BP and Shell come top of oil companies

BP and Shell have fared best in an analysis of the social and environmental performance of eight large oil and […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

M&S opens up its stores to homeless job seekers

One of the UK’s largest retailers is to use its stores and staff to help young homeless people improve their […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Motor industry shifts up a gear on CSR

The UK motor industry is to develop best practice guidelines on sustainability principles for its supply chain. The industry’s trade […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Paper giant begins to draw up social indicators

The world’s second largest paper company is to begin work on developing social performance indicators after putting in place a […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

HBOS lures Mackenzie to spearhead SRI drive

One of the UK’s biggest financial companies has jumped into the socially responsible investment market by luring the City’s best-known […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Lattice leaps into first place

Lattice Group has jumped straight into joint top place in Business in the Environment’s (BiE) sixth annual Corporate Environmental Engagement […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

RMC deepens its community involvement

The building materials group RMC has said it will ensure all its UK operating companies are involved in at least […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Triumph leaves Burma with 1000 job losses

A ‘social plan’ to help reduce the impact of redundancies is being drawn up by Europe’s largest lingerie manufacturer, Triumph […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Eni sets out its social contribution

Italian oil and gas company Eni has produced an inventory of its social responsibility projects around the world. In two […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Agilent adopts flexible work arrangements

Around one in seven staff at California-based Agilent Technologies are now on flexible working arrangements, according to the firm’s second […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Big player ready to join SRI game

Barclays Global Investors is investigating a move into socially responsible investment. BGI, based in the US and one of the […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

BSkyB begins upgrade of community projects

BSkyB has refined its social responsibility strategy to align its support for community initiatives more closely with the company’s core […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Ketchum offers CSR service

One of the world’s largest public relations agencies has launched a corporate social responsibility arm. New York-based Ketchum says the […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Electricity group to join ranks of social reporters

The London Electricity group is to launch its first corporate social responsibility report this spring. The group, which employs 4500 […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Balfour Beatty looks at green indicators

Key performance indicators on the environment are to be drawn up next year by the construction firm Balfour Beatty, which […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Anderson wins leader award

The first Sustainability Leadership Award has been won by Ray Anderson, founder and chief executive of Interface, the world’s largest […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

GSK cuts price of drugs in US

GlaxoSmithKline is to cut the price of its drugs for elderly people on low incomes in the US. GSK’s Orange […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Barclays talks to stakeholders

Barclays Bank has commissioned a market research company to ask its stakeholders what they think it should do to tackle […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

BBC makes its reporting debut on the internet

The BBC has launched its first environment report with a warning that it ‘contains more anecdotes than measured impacts’. The […]

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November 18, 2008

Community Development

Cotton Traders pulls out of Burma

Cotton Traders is to stop sourcing clothes from Burma after the Burma Campaign UK organized a public boycott of the […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Consumers want business to help them on climate change

Australian consumers are said in a new report to be informed and inspired about climate change and to demand to […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Skype stops online monitoring in China

Online telephone company Skype has admitted that TOM Online, the majority owner of its Chinese venture TOM-Skype, has been monitoring […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

IFC aims to improve conditions in Vietnam

A project has been introduced by two international organizations to improve conditions for more than 700,000 workers in the Vietnam […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

CSR executives put brave face on the financial crisis

The consequences for corporate responsibility of an impending recession remain unclear, but many in the field are taking an optimistic […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Pepsi steps up Asian water commitment

Pepsi’s charitable arm has announced major new grants to provide access to safe water and sanitation for people in rural […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Dow helps China with safety goals

An agreement to collaborate on promoting safety and emergency precautions in China’s chemical industry has been reached by the Beijing […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

69 Chinese resource firms in Burma

EarthRights International claims to have found 69 Chinese multinational corporations involved in at least 90 hydropower, oil, natural gas and […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

IPod lure reels in readers

A global bank is testing some novel ways to increase readership of its annual sustainability review, including a prize draw […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Telstra in volunteering push

The social foundation of the Australian communications group Telstra is to give A$400,000 ($248,000, £159,000) in grants to community organizations. […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Corporate clout leads to Uzbek ban on child labour

Wal-Mart is claiming dramatic progress on eliminating child labour in the central Asian republic of Uzbekistan by using its purchasing […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Arms firms agree ethics swap

Some of the leading aerospace and defence exporters in Europe and the US have agreed to greater informal co-operation on […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Trio accused of failing indigenous people

Survival International has picked out Perenco, Samling and Vedanta as three of the worst companies for ‘abusing tribal people’s rights’. […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Pharmaceuticals sector guidelines pass the UN test

A set of human rights guidelines for pharmaceuticals companies has been accepted by the United Nations. The guidelines, which have […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

SRI reach grows as Africa gets its own pair of indices

Two SRI indexes have been set up to cover listed companies in Africa. The Africa investor SRI 50 and Africa […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

The financial crisis: will CSR survive the fallout?

Could recent events in financial markets be the death of corporate responsibility and responsible investment, or the making of it? […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Supermarket leads way on penny-a-pound deal

A US supermarket chain has broken new ground by signing an agreement with a workers’ organization to improve wages for […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

The Financial Crisis

A failure of risk management on a massive scale The crisis has exposed shortcomings and omissions in some ESG research, but […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

The global financial crisis presents a challenge for CSR practitioners

Not the least important among the many issues raised by the turmoil in financial markets is the performance of the […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Pace of change ‘too slow’ on fashion sector wages

Most British fashion chains are making only ‘glacial’ progress on improving wages in their supply chains, according to a new […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Big event falls victim to global financial woes

One of the largest and most ambitious corporate responsibility events ever planned has had to be postponed because of the […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

World Bank pulls out of Chad project

The World Bank has withdrawn from a deal to fund an oil project with the government of Chad after politicians […]

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November 4, 2008