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Costa beats coffee target

Costa, the UK’s largest coffee shop chain, announced last month that all coffee sold in its 785 British stores is […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Firms urged to strengthen their rights reporting

Three organizations with links to the United Nations are making efforts to encourage more in-depth coverage of human rights in […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Right now, business needs more walk and less talk

The financial crisis has shown that reporting is no substitute for firm action on ethics, says Leo Martin The rise […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Gulf Air draws up three-pronged CSR strategy

Gulf Air, Bahrain’s national carrier, has announced a corporate social responsibility plan with three main themes: climate change and clean […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

China Mobile joins Climate Group

China Mobile, the world’s biggest mobile telephone operator, has become the first Chinese state-controlled business to join the Climate Group, […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

AA1000 takes on a new, more detailed, look

A new version of the AA1000 Assurance Standard was unveiled last month. The standard, used by assurers as a guide […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Henderson risks criticism over tax move to Ireland

One of the UK’s leading asset management companies is changing its tax domicile from Britain to the Irish Republic to […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Ethical firms are treading on charities’ toes

Charities may soon have to compete with companies for the ethical high ground, a third sector fundraising specialist has said. […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Brown’s reshuffle gives minister a joined-up brief

A former climate change minister has taken over the UK government’s corporate responsibility brief. Ian Pearson has been given the […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Business leaders assist Ruggie with his ongoing deliberations

A leadership group has been set up by the United Nations to advise John Ruggie, its special representative for business […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

The buying game

Traidcraft/Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.Free at www.thebuyinggame.org This online game has been created to raise awareness of ethical supply […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

GRI gets base in Australia

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), creator of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting guidelines, is establishing an Australian base […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Danish bank embraces SRI

Denmark’s largest banking group, Danske Bank, has adopted an SRI policy in the belief that it will improve the long-term […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Merger aims to create ‘powerful voice’ on SRI

The Enhanced Analytics Initiative (EAI), which aims to improve the quality of investment research into extra-financial issues, is to be […]

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November 4, 2008

Community Development

Insurance firms reject Burma campaign

A number of insurance companies have either rejected or challenged claims by a UK-based pressure group that they should close […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Light shines on assurers’ ‘inferior’ double-tasking

Consultancies that help companies produce a sustainability report and then provide assurance for it have been criticized for doing so. […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

UK moves on bribery as OECD pressure mounts

Signs are emerging that the UK government is beginning to adopt a tougher stance on the behaviour of British companies […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

‘Philanthropy fatigue’ cuts into drug sector reputation

Public attitudes are hardening against the pharmaceutical industry, a study by a Geneva-based agency suggests. Research by Covalence has found […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

More patents are donated

Three more companies – Bosch, DuPont and Xerox – have released patents so as to encourage the development of new […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

HIV/Aids drugs go to families

Anglo American is extending its HIV and Aids drugs programme in South Africa to family members of its 75,000 workers […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

TV programme fuels Dutch SRI fever

A television documentary has been credited with prompting an eightfold increase in the value of assets managed along socially responsible […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Firms are offered KPIs for conflict zones code

Companies that have signed up to the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights have been given 11 key performance […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Rise in climate change disclosures comes to a halt

The number of large companies disclosing information on their carbon emissions has stalled at last year’s level, reports the Carbon […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

New help for humanitarian efforts

A body has been formed to enable businesses to become directly involved in development and humanitarian operations in strife-torn emerging […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Standard Chartered combats Aids in Bangladesh

Representatives from Standard Chartered Bank and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAids) in Bangladesh have signed an agreement […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Odegard tackles child labour in Nepal

The US carpet design company Odegard is to further its policy of addressing child labour in Nepal’s carpet industry with […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

The Oxford handbook of corporate social responsibility

(eds) A Crane, A McWilliams, D Matten, J Moon, D Siegel.Hardback. 590 pages. Oxford University Press. £80/$150. Practitioners beware: the […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

‘Mob’ campaign will use carrot rather than stick

A network of US consumers is seeking to reward responsible companies with extra business. The fledgling online community, called Carrotmob, […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Corporate social responsibility and the global financial crisis

The credit crunch has exposed one of the greatest pieces of corporate social irresponsibility ever. It has revealed flaws not […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Tennant changes direction to pursue credit card idea

A leading SRI figure of the past two decades has left the sector to head a credit card loyalty scheme […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Failure to sign principles leads to loss of business

Three investment management companies have lost contracts to manage £185million ($332m) of global equities because they are not signatories to […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Laboratories swap ideas

Twenty corporate responsibility discussion groups have been formed under the umbrella of the European Alliance for CSR since it started […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Lenovo gets up to speed on climate change

The Chinese computer company Lenovo, which has joined The Climate Group, an international non-profit organization, has followed up by announcing […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Chinese authority publishes CSR indices

CSR guidelines with 60 indices have been published for businesses by the local authority in the Wuxi municipality of Jiangsu, […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

SRI investing finds foothold in Central and Eastern Europe

The first SRI fund concentrating on central and eastern European equities has been established by Limestone Investment Management, which has […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Accountants ‘must do CSR’

Accountants should have compulsory modules about corporate responsibility in their professional training, one of the world’s most influential accountancy bodies […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Multinationals support Chinese unions

IBM and Volvo have become the latest Fortune 500 companies to set up trade unions in their Chinese operations. Fewer […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Taiwan fund picks up on SRI

Taiwan’s Labour Pension Fund is to adopt SRI principles. It intends to draw up investment policies to be introduced gradually […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Healthcare company backs Indian dialysis

A dialysis clinic has been opened in India by Bridge of Life – DaVita Medical Missions, a non-profit organization set […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Roche agrees HIV therapy deals

The Roche pharmaceuticals company has entered into four new technology transfers with manufacturers in Bangladesh and three African countries where […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Rio Tinto hit by exclusion

Rio Tinto has expressed dismay at being dropped on ethical grounds from one of the Norwegian government’s pension funds. The […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Carbon trading could benefit Australasian pension funds

Australian superannuation funds could continue to be successful with carbon-efficient investment policies under a carbon emissions trading scheme, a new […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Chouinard is 2008 leader

Yvon Chouinard, co-founder of the US-based outdoor clothing company Patagonia, has won this year’s Sustainability Leadership Award for his work […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Investors rediscover the joys of negative screening

The exclusionary approach is once again popular among institutional investors, says Will Oulton The past year or so has seen […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Bid starts to get suppliers into CSR reporting mode

Multinationals are to be urged this month to help small- and medium-sized supplier companies produce their own non-financial reports. The […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

A decade on, sustainable funds are flourishing

Bank Sarasin has put sustainability close to the heart of its investment approach. The Swiss private bank is using the […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Danes lead bid to fund ‘practical’ research

Investors, company executives, government officials and academics are to meet in the US next month to establish an international fund […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Peace breaks out as truce agreed in Wikipedia spat

A wrangle over the definition of the phrase ‘corporate social responsibility’ on Wikipedia has finally been resolved. Contributors to the […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Do the super rich see SRI as the way forward?

Investment specialists often divide the socially responsible investment market in two – retail and institutional. But a third sector exists  […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Australasian seafood firms work on guidelines

Representatives of the Australian and New Zealand seafood industries and the two countries’ governments have met to work on new […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Mobile firms aim to limit children’s access to content

Six mobile phone operators may tighten a set of voluntary measures to protect young people from inappropriate online material. The […]

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October 1, 2008

Community Development

Summit will tackle Asian CSR apathy

Widescale apathy towards corporate social responsibility among large Asian companies is to be a major topic on the agenda at […]

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September 8, 2008

Community Development

New ranking may be unpopular, but it's here to stay

Pharmaceutical companies are not happy, but a number of influential investors have expressed their support for the Access to Medicine […]

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September 6, 2008

Community Development

Foreign Office ditches CSR unit as its interest wanes

Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has shut down its section that has been dealing specifically with corporate responsibility. The move […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Japanese companies accept carbon labelling

Carbon footprint labels will appear on food packaging and other products in Japan under a voluntary scheme to persuade companies […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Satyam sets up Indian healthcare initiative

A programme to deliver ‘world-class’ healthcare to remote villages in India has been set up by Satyam Computer Services, a […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Two-thirds of Chinese Coca-Cola suppliers are non-compliant

Coca-Cola, a main sponsor of the Beijing Olympics, has reported that two-thirds of its 371 Chinese suppliers did not comply […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Novozymes joins Wal-Mart’s bid for progress

Wal-Mart has taken the unusual step of inviting another company to give sustainability presentations at its annual supplier conference. The […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

EU feels child labour heat

The European Union has been urged to ensure that its support for any European company through trade missions and subsidies […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

‘Sustainable’ Korean companies fare well

Sustainable companies on the Korean stock exchange have outperformed the index by more than 110 per cent since 2007, and […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Gap partnership targets women

Gap, the US apparel and footwear group, has started a national women and children welfare project in collaboration with the […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

IBM enters the market

IBM has diversified into corporate responsibility consultancy. The group’s Global Business Services division, which previously concentrated on mainstream strategy advice, […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Cross-sector coalition will target obesity

British companies for whom obesity is a corporate responsibility issue have come together to help the government promote healthier lifestyles. […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Legal action opens new front for anti-Israel lobbyists

Further signs have emerged in recent weeks that companies operating in or sourcing from the occupied West Bank of Palestine […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Norwegian investors launch SRI initiative

Norway’s largest institutional investors are making efforts to promote responsible business practice among companies listed on the Oslo bourse. The […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Energy firms under pressure to do more on fuel poverty

Fuel poverty has become a more pressing business responsibility issue for energy companies in the past month as a result […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Companies take strategic view of climate change

Companies seeking climate change advice are choosing consultancies that offer commercial and financial guidance rather than those provide technical expertise […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Samsung tops ranking of controversy

Samsung was the world’s most environmentally and socially controversial company in the first half of 2008, according to a new […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Use of migrant workers is put under microscope

A two-year research project is to consider how multinationals can limit the exploitation of migrant workers in their supply chains. […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Business resists pressure over its Zimbabwe links

Several large companies operating in Zimbabwe have declined to sign a voluntary agreement drawn up by the UK government on […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Shell pulls advert as greenwash gripes rise

Shell has withdrawn a newspaper advertisement based around its sustainability credentials after the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) judged it […]

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September 5, 2008

Community Development

Foreign policy needs to support responsible business practice

Ethical investors maintain lists of countries flouting human rights in order to avoid putting money into companies with operations there. […]

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September 5, 2008