SOCIETY

Community Development

Third of eurozone equities subject to engagement

The extent to which institutional investors in Europe raise social and environmental matters with companies has massively increased over the […]

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December 4, 2006

Community Development

UTC 2005 corporate responsibility report

Available as hard copy and download at www.utc.com/responsibility/index.htm The centrepiece of United Technology Corporation’s stand at last month’s Business for […]

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December 4, 2006

Community Development

Yahoo! stands firm on China

Internet services company Yahoo! has said the only way to avoid being forced to hand over information on dissidents in […]

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December 4, 2006

Community Development

Social auditors and companies must seize an historic opportunity

Sometimes the old can learn from the young. Compared with century-old financial auditing, social auditing is a pup, a distinct […]

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December 4, 2006

Community Development

Football clubs need to reassess gambling links

Sponsorship deals with online gambling sites are putting teams at reputational risk, argues Lisa Buchan Britons wager close to £50billion […]

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December 4, 2006

Community Development

Airbus UK seeks opinion on future CSR programme

Airbus UK is to gather the views of its stakeholders as a prelude to drawing up a corporate responsibility programme. […]

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December 4, 2006

Community Development

Business urged to ally with NGOs to fight corruption

Companies have been urged to make greater efforts to work with non-governmental organizations on tackling corruption in countries with weak […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Diamond giant to assist exploited small-scale miners

De Beers has announced a $2million (£1.05m) project to improve the lives of Tanzania’s ‘informal’ diamond miners. The multinational, which […]

TriplePundit

November 3, 2006

Community Development

Firms ‘too defensive’ on CSR

Companies engaged by investors on corporate responsibility issues can become too defensive and bogged down in debating specific allegations about […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Ethical trading flagship has had limited impact

One of the world’s longest-running ethical supply chain management initiatives has generally led to only minor improvements in workplace standards […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Number of advertised CSR jobs rises

An analysis of full-time CSR jobs on two online corporate responsibility recruitment sites has found that listings in total increased […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Nine firms join new quest for ‘zero energy’

Nine multinationals have joined a project that aims to make big cuts in the energy used in their buildings. The […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Investors move on climate

Institutional investors managing assets worth more than £850billion ($1600bn) pledged last month to use their collective financial weight to encourage […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Big SRI player changes its tack on engagement

UK-based Henderson Global Investors, one of the most prominent firms in socially responsible investment, has moved to allay fears that […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Big guns set up supply chain programme

Two large international organizations have created an initiative to help companies improve labour standards in their global supply chains. The […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Ruggie wary of UN norms

The man charged with finding a way forward for the United Nations on human rights and business has reiterated his […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Fresh script is needed for future on the big stage

The respective roles of business, government and civil society are becoming less clearly demarcated, says David Boyle It isn’t easy […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Eight years of talk haven’t got us very far

When the UK government embarked on its reform of corporate law, Google was operating out of a garage. More than […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Glass is half full for upbeat SRI evangelist

EP talks to Robert Rubinstein, founder of this month’s Triple Bottom Line Investing conference, about the progress of socially responsible […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Investors told emerging markets need a rethink

Progress on responsible business practice on the part of companies in emerging market countries has reached a point where socially […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Frustrated German NGOs want to force pace on CSR

Thirty civil society organizations in Germany have created a new CSR group to persuade companies to do more on corporate […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Code overhaul outlaws ‘greenwash’ advertising

The global advertising industry has revised its code of ethics to highlight the dangers of making claims about a company’s […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Everything you need to know about G3

EP sets out the key changes that will be brought in by the newly revamped Global Reporting Initiative guidelines on […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Supermarkets perform patchily

The UK’s eight biggest supermarkets are making headway on corporate responsibility but their overall performance is patchy, says the National […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

The corporation that changed the world

Nick Robins. Pluto Press. 218 pages. Paperback. £15.99. www.plutobooks.com Forget Union Carbide or Enron. When it comes to corporate irresponsibility, […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Bank leads child porn fight

Standard Chartered Bank is to encourage financial institutions to commit themselves to combating internet child pornography by sharing information about […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Firms swap ideas on energy management

A shipping company, an energy business and two consultancies have combined forces to exchange ideas on improving their environmental performance […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Neutered Companies Bill nears the statute book

The Companies Bill, which will introduce a limited range of light-touch measures to encourage corporate responsibility in the UK, will […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

CSR software package taps into email to coach staff

The UK compliance specialist CODA has developed software for companies managing their corporate responsibility programmes. The CODA-Control Manager gives employees […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Global Compact de-lists 335 laggard companies

The United Nations has taken its most decisive action yet on ‘free rider’ signatories to the Global Compact by de-listing […]

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November 3, 2006

Community Development

Vietnam gets youth careers initiative

Vietnam is among the countries to which the International Business Leaders’ Forum is to extend its Youth Career Initiative, a […]

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October 27, 2006

Community Development

Group set up to tackle Indian quarrying abuses

A project has been started in the Netherlands to eliminate inhuman and environmentally undesirable policies among Indian companies supplying natural […]

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October 27, 2006

Community Development

Apac targeted by Sustainable Banking Awards

Applications from Asia Pacific are being sought for the second FT Sustainable Banking Awards, which recognize banks that have shown […]

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October 27, 2006

Community Development

Standard Chartered boosts microfinance

Standard Chartered is setting aside $500million (£266m) over five years to provide development organizations and fund managers with credit and […]

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October 27, 2006

Community Development

Malaysian stock exchange steps into CSR fray

The Malaysian stock exchange has published a CSR framework setting out guidelines for public listed companies on environmental, community, marketplace […]

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October 27, 2006

Community Development

Social impact plans now needed in Philippines

Companies that want to mine in the Philippines will now have to submit their technical and social plans to a […]

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October 27, 2006

Community Development

Indian agency wins IFC grant

The Indian CSR consultancy Crisil has become one of five organizations around the world to win the Capturing Value research […]

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October 27, 2006

Community Development

Hong Kong tops bribery league

A survey has found that 76 per cent of Hong Kong businessmen have lost a deal in the past five […]

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October 27, 2006

Community Development

Unilever subsidiary accused of violations in India

A complaint accusing the Indian Unilever subsidiary of labour rights violations has been made to the Organization for Economic Co-operation […]

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October 27, 2006

Community Development

Malaysian prime minister speaks out on CSR

Public listed companies in Malaysia have made significant progress in corporate governance compliance, said Abdullah Badawi, the premier and finance […]

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October 27, 2006

Community Development

Brandix makes progress on water project

Water is to be laid on within three years by Brandix Lanka, Sri Lanka’s largest apparel exporter, to villages where […]

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October 27, 2006

Community Development

From Edward Potter, director, global labour relations & workplace accountability, Coca-Cola

In recent years, there has been considerable public interest in The Coca-Cola Company’s operations in Colombia. Allegations about our business […]

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October 16, 2006

Community Development

Fortune 500 show willing on human rights agenda

Some of the world’s largest companies have been praised by John Ruggie, the United Nations special representative on business and […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Fairtrade Foundation plays down low wage claims

The Fairtrade Foundation has hit back at newspaper allegations that coffee producers using its label are breaching fair trade principles. […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Sudan disinvestment law faces legal challenge

Lobbyists and pension organizations are taking legal action to try to overturn US legislation requiring some state pension funds to […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Soy processors set up responsible alliance

Businesses involved in the production and processing of soya beans have set up a global organization to reduce the industry’s […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Barclays offers fair wage package across the board

Barclays has extended a fair wage deal for cleaners of its 2000 UK branches. The bank has signed the deal […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Hair-raising tales have no basis in fact, say retailers

Companies that make and sell hair extensions and wigs have protested over allegations that the industry habitually uses unethically sourced […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Mining sector gets close to global ethics standard

New standards for certifying individual mine sites could be in place by June next year if targets for a new […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Inquiry will tackle the big questions

An inquiry into the future role of business in society has been set up by the UK-based Tomorrow’s Company think-tank. […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Companies stand accused of snubbing OECD guidelines

A number of companies have been accused of refusing to participate in the official complaints procedure for alleged breaches of […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Climate change action lags behind awareness

Nine in ten of the world’s major companies now fully accept the commercial risks posed by climate change, but less […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Sky takes green message into living room

BSkyB is to use its access to customers in their living rooms to encourage them to make energy-saving improvements. The […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Shadowy private equity threatens accountability

Private consortia takeovers of public companies pose a threat to corporate responsibility, argues Roger Cowe FTSE4Good is in danger of […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Moves begin to turn EITI into a permanent fixture

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative looks likely to be put on a more concrete footing with a board and a […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

US trips up in DJSI review

American businesses have fared badly in last month’s annual review of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, partly due to the […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Capital market campaigning

Steve Waygood. Incisive Financial Publishing. 234 pages. Hardback. £85. When Surfers Against Sewage campaigners brandished a giant inflatable turd at […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Americans want to be part of Europe alliance

Six American multinationals have expressed interest in supporting the new European Alliance for CSR, a loose network of businesses being […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Pressures mount on carbon disclosure

Investors are not yet asking companies the right questions about their carbon strategies. As a result, companies are not providing […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

CBI chief begins to talk CSR

The new head of the Confederation of British Industries, the UK employers’ organization, has indicated he will take a forward-looking […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Bank sets out action plan on aborigines

A ‘reconciliation action plan’ to improve ANZ bank’s relationship with Australian aboriginal people is to be drawn up by the […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

NEC puts main suppliers under ethical microscope

The Japanese information technology giant NEC has begun for the first time to formally assess the social and environmental performance […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

French get timber charter

The France-based timber trade association Le Commerce du Bois (LCB) has introduced a charter on sustainable timber purchasing. Its 160 […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Investors search for blueprint to counter short-termism

A ‘blueprint’ for long-term investment is to be produced by the end of the year in an attempt to move […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Women working in CSR roles earn 30% less

Female CSR specialists in the US earn $30,000 (£16,000) a year less than their male counterparts, new statistics show. Women […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Marathon Club puts accent on staying power to win the race

The average length of time that a stock is held is five months. More often than not, to align managers’ […]

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September 28, 2006

Community Development

Most Apac countries are tough on corporate abuse

Most countries in the Asia-Pacific region show a willingness to respond politically to human rights violations by corporations, says a […]

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September 25, 2006

Community Development

China gets business-led Aids scheme

A ground-breaking scheme has been started in China to unite businesses and the government in tackling health problems. The China […]

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September 25, 2006

Community Development

Microsoft helps Asian women entrepreneurs

Developing nations in the Asia-Pacific region are among the countries being targeted by an initiative to help women entrepreneurs in […]

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September 25, 2006

Community Development

South Korea gets new SRI fund

The South Korean company Nonghyup CA Asset Management has set up a new socially responsible investment vehicle – the Nonghyup […]

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September 25, 2006

Community Development

Bank studies its energy policy

The Asian Development Bank is to conduct a study of its energy policy to promote more use of clean energy […]

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September 25, 2006

Community Development

Asia Energy withdraws after local activism

Asia Energy, a British company that wants to extract 15 million tonnes of coal a year for the next 30 […]

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September 25, 2006