SOCIETY

Community Development

New firm provides Aussie SRI services

A specialist governance research and engagement service called Regnan has been set up in Australia by eight institutional investors and […]

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September 3, 2007

Community Development

Climate change reporting ‘needs to improve’

Climate change disclosure by Australian corporates could be significantly improved, reports the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of Australia and […]

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September 3, 2007

Community Development

Aussie investors create research arm

Eight large institutional investors have combined with Monash University in Melbourne to set up a specialist service provider in governance […]

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July 10, 2007

Community Development

‘Ethical’ becomes ‘Responsible’ for EIA

The Ethical Investment Association is to change its name to the Responsible Investment Association Australasia. More than 85 per cent […]

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July 10, 2007

Community Development

Temasek Holdings sets up development fund

Temasek Holdings, the Singapore government’s investment arm, has set up a S$500million ($330m, £163m) trust to boost Asian development. Four […]

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July 10, 2007

Community Development

Nike goes back into Sialkot

Nike, the official supplier of hand-stitched soccer balls to the English Premier Football League, is to buy again from Pakistan. […]

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July 10, 2007

Community Development

ANZ exonerated over logging links

An accusation that Australia’s ANZ Bank has supported unsustainable logging in Papua New Guinea has been rejected. The complaint was […]

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July 10, 2007

Community Development

Euro-China CSR pact signed

The first Sino-European co-operation agreement on corporate social responsibility has been signed with the aim of strengthening ties between Chinese […]

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July 10, 2007

Community Development

Asria offers airline advice

The Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia is offering its members advanced access to a new online portal […]

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July 10, 2007

Community Development

Multinationals reject child labour accusations

Multinationals involved in cottonseed production in India have rejected suggestions that they are turning a blind eye to the use […]

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July 10, 2007

Community Development

VicSuper and Hesta join ethical alliance

Two Australian companies have become associate members of the Enhanced Analytics Initiative (EAI), an international organization that gathers information from […]

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July 10, 2007

Community Development

Sd3 moves into South Korea

A Korean office of Sd3, the London-based sustainability consultancy, has been officially opened at a British embassy event in Seoul. […]

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July 10, 2007

Community Development

68 per cent growth in complaints at BP

Employee complaints about possible legal infractions at BP rose by two-thirds last year in the wake of some major health […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

UN gives Ruggie an extra year to review norms

John Ruggie, the United Nations secretary-general’s special representative on business and human rights, has been granted his wish for an […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Diamond sales ‘need auditing’ say detractors

Diamond retailers have been urged to introduce more third-party audits of their systems for eliminating ‘blood diamonds’ from their supply […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Food sector put on regulation alert

The food and drink industry has been warned by the European Commission that it could face new regulations within three […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Mobile phone giant goes for reasonable assurance

Vodafone is claiming to have become the first Fortune 100 company to have had its corporate responsibility report assured to […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

‘time for leaders to back CSR laws’, says inquiry

Leading companies in the CSR field should begin pushing governments to introduce national regulation on corporate responsibility that will bring […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Unilever begins switch to ‘ethical’ tea sourcing

Unilever, the world’s largest buyer of black tea, is to source its entire tea supply using Rainforest Alliance standards, starting […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Export credit agencies asked to extend remit

Some of the world’s largest economies have agreed that their government-backed export credit agencies should look at a wider range […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Fidelity sells shares as Sudan campaign bites

Pressure from US activists appears to have prompted Fidelity Investments, the world’s largest mutual fund company, to sell a sizeable […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

£6bn worth of British SRI funds get the star treatment

A star rating system for UK ethical investment funds has been announced by Ethical Investment Research Services. The ratings, which […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Guidelines on corporate behaviour to be updated

A key international mechanism for overseeing company behaviour on issues such as human rights, bribery and information disclosure is set […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Brevity on bribery puts BAE in verifier’s firing line

BAE Systems has been criticized by its external assurers for failing to provide enough information in its corporate responsibility report […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Act of transparency pays dividends for shoe giant

The world’s largest sports shoe and clothing brand has claimed that a decision to publicly disclose the names of all […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Companies warned against headlong rush into biofuels

A leading socially responsible investor has warned that companies are rushing to bring biofuels to market without giving proper consideration […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Publisher quits arms fairs

Reed Elsevier is to stop hosting arms fairs over ethical concerns about its involvement with the defence industry. The Anglo-Dutch […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Investor disclosure is possible, material – and also necessary

Fund managers should be as transparent on climate change data as everyone else, argues Nick Robins Over the past decade, […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Realism and openness is Baker’s recipe for success

Kingfisher’s head of corporate responsibility tells EP how a pragmatic and transparent approach has helped bring the group up to […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Black Gold

Independent film. Cert: U. 78 mins, dir: Nick & Marc Francis www.blackgoldmovie.com This well-constructed but sometimes woolly documentary is a […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Ernst & Young increases CSR numbers

Ernst & Young is to expand its in-house corporate responsibility programme in the UK by creating a new full-time post […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Swiss bank lifts share of SRI assets

The Swiss investment bank Sarasin has increased the proportion of the assets it manages along SRI lines. New figures from […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Insurers enter the fray

Some of the biggest companies in the world’s largest industry sector – insurance – have begun to develop a set […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

G8 shows new enthusiasm for CSR agenda

The G8 nations are to encourage developing countries to embrace corporate responsibility by holding a ‘high level dialogue’ on the […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

An investment business built on an ethical approach

Having the Church of England as its core client has required CCLA Investment Management to keep at the forefront of […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Amnesty ready to put its own house in order

Amnesty International UK is recruiting a CSR manager to manage its in-house ethical performance. The appointment, which is unusual for […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Staging a dialogue

Stakeholder engagement and social reporting have been cornerstones of responsible business practice for more than a decade. A number of […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Digging deep

When Xstrata Copper won a concession to develop the Apurímac region of Peru, it secured what could turn out to […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Strength through unity

Diseases that disproportionately affect developing countries – such as malaria and tuberculosis – place pharmaceutical companies in a dilemma. To […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Putting the customer first

As an integrated energy group, Centrica – owner of British Gas and operator of gas and electricity assets – knows […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Reaching for the sky

Whatever your take on modern urban architecture, you can’t help but be impressed with HSBC’s new headquarters in Mexico City. […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Fundraisers to go on CSR tours

Fundraisers in the not-for-profit sector who set up corporate partnerships are to be taken on site visits to two European […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Better to work with the tools to hand than pin hopes on regulation

Is there such a thing as international law governing company behaviour? The question is not purely academic. Much is made […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Building a better future

Ciudad Bolivar is a socially deprived area of Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, and one of the most densely populated places in […]

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July 4, 2007

Community Development

Chinese executives not doing enough on global warming

Most Chinese senior executives appear to be looking at the impact of global warming on their businesses but 77 per […]

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May 31, 2007

Community Development

Toyota helps 28,000 children

The Toyota Viet Nam Foundation has now trained more than 28,000 schoolchildren in its traffic safety education programme, according to […]

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May 31, 2007

Community Development

Philippines targets illegal recruiters

The Philippine authorities are now targeting five of the country’s islands in their long-running campaign against illegal recruiters who take […]

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May 31, 2007

Community Development

Finance minister attacks Indian business leaders

Industry leaders in India have been accused of showing little social responsibility while seeking relief and tax concessions for themselves. […]

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May 31, 2007

Community Development

Ashoka gets $1m boost

Ashoka, the world’s largest association of social entrepreneurs with bases in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North America and […]

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May 31, 2007

Community Development

Multinationals protest at anti-union violence

Five international clothing manufacturers have threatened to quit Cambodia unless the government there investigates the murder of a senior union […]

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May 31, 2007

Community Development

ADB sets up carbon fund

A fund has been set up by the Asian Development Bank to enable companies to buy carbon credits when they […]

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May 31, 2007

Community Development

Forty firms sign up to Compact

More than 40 Singapore-based companies have signed up to the Global Compact Local Network. The network has now become the […]

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May 31, 2007

Community Development

Pressure group extends advice

A non-governmental organization has taken the unusual step of forming a ‘Sustainable Business Forum’ to attract corporate members. US-based Rainforest […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Moves afoot to bridge Atlantic divide on CSR

A bid to close the gap between the way European and domestic arms of US multinationals approach corporate responsibility is […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Ethical due diligence begins to gain supporters

A growing number of companies are turning to ‘ethical due diligence’ before they embark on partnerships, mergers or takeovers of […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Sugar cane sector decides to lay down ground rules

Sugar cane growers, processors and food companies are to draw up social and environmental ‘principles and criteria’ with a view […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Keeping it simple: exclusion pays off for Old Mutual

Old Mutual Asset Managers’ Ethical Fund has outperformed the main index for the last three calendar years, despite having only […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Fortis links CSR to its ambitions for growth

The Belgo-Dutch banking and insurance group Fortis has deepened its commitment to corporate responsibility by setting out CSR goals for […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Female health ‘neglected’ in supply chain efforts

Businesses have been urged to pay more attention to promoting reproductive health for women working in their supply chains in […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Big players will mentor SMEs on business responsibility

Four European multinationals have agreed to act as corporate responsibility mentors to smaller businesses in developing countries. DaimlerChrysler, Otto Group […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Landmark decision gives security principles teeth

Corporate signatories to the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights will now have to report annually on their progress […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Ski town offers glimpse of reports to come

A Canadian ski resort has begun to show the way for corporates on ‘real-time’ web-based reporting of social and environmental […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Talk could plug data gap

A lack of communication between research teams in different parts of the investment industry appears to be an important factor […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

An ISO standard on CSR is slowly taking shape

Work on an international standard on social responsibility is progressing well, but the large number of interested parties involved remains […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Corporate Truth, by Adrian Henriques

Earthscan, 2007. 184 pages, hardback. In theory, transparency should be good for business generally because it makes markets more efficient. […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Everyclick in client search

A search engine company that gives half its gross revenue to charity has begun a campaign to persuade large businesses […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Is corporate social responsibility in danger of losing its way?

Companies are enjoying record profits and corporate social responsibility is enjoying unprecedented support. In the US, non-financial reporting seems to […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Two new entrants test size of CSR jobs market

Two more recruitment agencies have entered the increasingly crowded UK market. Arc Vision and Dangerfield Executive Search join eight other […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Corporate world must adopt principled stance on migration

Enlightened self-interest should spur business support for migrants, argue Mary Robinson and Aron Cramer For the business community, labour migration […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

City leaders try to allay fears on private equity

Two senior City figures have predicted that private equity will soon embrace CSR. Stephen Haddrill and Alain Grisay told delegates […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Market at the base of the pyramid put at $5trillion

Companies developing products for sale to some of the world’s poorest people are opening up a market worth as much […]

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May 30, 2007

Community Development

Compact companies fare better on key yardsticks

Companies that are signatories to the United Nations Global Compact have stronger policy frameworks on aspects of CSR than those […]

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May 30, 2007