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2nd Sep 2008
A survey just released by eyefortransport tells us what for most green-minded professionals seems obvious: High fuel prices are causing the country’s manufacturers, retailers and logistics providers to rethink their transportation strategies.
18th Aug 2008
You can use the findings from, ‘Assure View’ - The CSR Assurance Statement Report, to look through the many available assurance providers and to also assess the full picture by looking into the raw data.
17th Aug 2008
CSR reporting has become a basic business expectation, the majority of CSR reports aren’t independently assured. This casts serious doubts on the role, meaning and reliability of these non-assured CSR reports,” the Assure View study says.
1st Aug 2008
A new report reveals previously unpublished information about a young but burgeoning
multi-million pound global industry operating at the heart of corporate trust: CSR report
assurance.
Assure View - The CSR Assurance Statement Report is the first report to offer an independent,
comprehensive overview of the field. The report outlines who uses assurance, who provides
assurance and what methods are […]
1st Aug 2008
Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE:CCE), the world’s largest marketer, distributor, and producer of Coca-Cola products, has published its third company-wide Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) Report, Shape Tomorrow…Today.
1st Aug 2008
These terms make it meaningful for companies disclosing any data and information rather than the scientific principles all the schemes use e.g. materiality, faithfulness, etc.
1st Aug 2008
This final period of consultation runs until September 12th after which the Technical Committee will again review all comments and finalise the Standard for the global launch on October 24th.
15th Jul 2008
In an enlightening session, VP of Corporate Responsibility for Cone LLC, Liz Gorman and Starbucks Communications Program Manager, Amy Anderson, (pictured) shared some of their best practices in preparing a winning CSR report.
10th Jul 2008
BT has announced plans to cut its carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2020 and published a “Climate Stabilization Intensity Target”.
30th Jun 2008
Can business strategy really be aligned with corporate responsibility strategy? This critical question is the theme of Vodafone’s 2008 CR Review
27th Jun 2008
The report explains how Virgin Media has started its journey towards becoming a more responsible business.
9th May 2008
Unilever has pledged to use only palm oil certified as sustainable by 2015, while also supporting calls for a moratorium on further deforestation for palm oil in Indonesia.
8th May 2008
Download the recent Nestle ‘Creating Shared Value’ report and see the 7 minute film which helps communicate their fresh approach to CSR.
7th May 2008
To better understand and reach the rapidly growing number of socially-minded customers, CEOs plan to increase their CSR investments by 25 percent over the next three years, the largest percentage increase of any trend identified in the just-released IBM Global CEO Study, the largest study of chief executives ever conducted.
23rd Apr 2008
90% of Americans say that companies need to prove their green claims, 80% say they should have independent third-party certification of those claims.
This Environmental Leader article highlights the Green Gap Survey from Cone and The Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship surveyed US consumers on a range of topics regarding environmental products and the companies selling them.
20th Mar 2008
German household products company Henkel has published a report outlining its environmental progress last year.
17th Mar 2008
A website looks at the issues of Corporate Social Responsibility and how they are being delivered in China.
17th Mar 2008
In the current wave of the environmental movement, there is quite a bit of talk. But research from Natural Marketing Institute shows that there is also quite a bit of action.
17th Mar 2008 by razchaudary
How do Taiwanese companies support their CSR decision making?
10th Mar 2008
It introduces the GreenBiz Index, a set of 20 indicators of progress, tracking the resource use, emissions, and business practices of U.S. companies: carbon, materials, energy, and toxics intensity, clean-tech investments, e-waste recovery, paper use, employee commuting, and more.
6th Mar 2008 by Alex Briggs
This CSR NewsWire story takes a look at the increasing role that certification is taking in sustainability and CSR.
25th Feb 2008
Orange aims to place a much greater emphasis on corporate and social responsibility.
22nd Feb 2008
Tens of billions of won of Samsung’s alleged slush fund are suspected of having been transferred into accounts of Shinsegae Group Chairwoman Lee Myung-hee
21st Feb 2008
This list—CRO’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2008—matters.
19th Feb 2008
Placing an added emphasis on corporate social responsibility and ensuring it is at the core of a business’ strategy can yield financial benefits, according to a study from IBM.
19th Feb 2008
John Tepper Marlin posted a blog post looking at CSR in the UK and the US, titled ‘UK vs US forms of CSR, who is ahead?’.
Event: 26th Jun 2008 – 27th Jun 2008
B2B, BizNGO, MSIs – How to build partnerships that work
11th Feb 2008 by Alex Briggs
The Co-operative Group, have announced transparent, detailed plans on addressing stakeholder concerns. They will ban the sale of eggs from caged hens, convert its entire own-brand hot beverage range to Fairtrade, reduce the weight of its wine packaging and add a further 66 pesticides to its prohibited list.
6th Feb 2008 by Alex Briggs
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, said GFSI standards provide real-time details on where suppliers fall short in food safety on a plant-by-plant basis, and go beyond the current audit process required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or U.S. Department of Agriculture.
25th Jan 2008 by Alex Briggs
CHR Hanson has published their environmental report, with the focus being around sustainable business.
We need to improve our monitoring capacity further to ensure that our baseline measurements are correct and comparable,” the company stated.
21st Jan 2008
Organizations that wish to grow profitably in the future must focus their efforts to benefit shareholders, society and the environment simultaneously, according to a paper published today by a group of academic experts on corporate responsibility and sustainability.
19th Dec 2007
Climate change, so long ignored or even denied, can no longer be disregarded, and is forcing companies throughout all sectors to re-evaluate their practices. And as with all ‘obstacles’, companies have started using climate change as a vehicle to promote what they do best: make business.
12th Dec 2007
Public relations is taking a backseat to accounting when it comes to sustainability reports, the Financial Times reports.
12th Dec 2007
Abbott has pledged to reduce its total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by two percent on an absolute basis from 2006 to 2011.
12th Dec 2007 by Alex Briggs
According to this Climatechangecorp.com article The US is looking into making CSR reporting on climate change a mandatory element of the information disclosed to investors.
26th Nov 2007 by Alex Briggs
The GRI announced today that several high profile global food processors have joined their sustainability reporting programme.
Nestlé, Bunge, Danisco, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, and Tyson Foods are the first food processors to join a programme to develop global reporting standards on sustainability projects in the sector.
20th Nov 2007 by Sarah Whitworth
A recent article by Kevin Moss, who has responsibility for implementation of BT’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy for BT in North America, looks at BT’s CSR operations and how they have expanded this by the help of AccountAbility and LRQA, a part of the Lloyd’s Register Group.
15th Nov 2007 by Sarah Whitworth
An article reports that Gap Inc. is pulling 50 percent of its orders placed with a vendor whose subcontracting led to children sewing some of the retailer’s clothes in squalid conditions in India.
5th Nov 2007 by Sarah Whitworth
Ethical consumers are increasingly using ‘Sustainability Information’ to identify and have trust in their chosen brands.
7th Sep 2007 by Alex Briggs
A survey released this week by IPSOS focuses on the financial and image benefits of being the greenest (or percieved as the greenest) in your sector. US Online consumers were surveyed on their views towards the world’s largest tech companies. Over half (57%) said that the Energy Star label was an influencing factor in their purchase […]
15th Aug 2007
The AA1000AS 2nd edition will be the world’s first mainstream corporate accountability standard to be developed using a collaborative wiki process.
16th May 2007
Continuity Central reports on a speech made by UK Environment and Climate Change Minister Ian Pearson
“Climate change already poses risks to businesses - and these will only increase in the future.”
16th Nov 2006
The annual SustainAbility awards have placed BT at the top of a global league table of sustainable business practice.
BT leads the field in SustainAbility’s latest biannual benchmarking survey of leading practice in corporate sustainability reporting, published in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Standard and Poor’s.
9th Nov 2006
Today’s non financial reporting models are broken. The problem isn’t that CSR reports are ‘greenwash’. Or even that they are unread, unloved data dumps. The problem is materiality - determining and reporting on the non financial factors which really matter.
27th Sep 2006 by Tim Kitchin
The first derivatives on Europe’s Emissions Trading Scheme will be launched in October.
19th Sep 2006 by Tim Kitchin
Egyptian call centre pioneer Xceed has achieved accreditation for environmental (ISO 14001) as well as health and safety compliance (OHSAS 18001).
18th Sep 2006 by Tim Kitchin
The UK’s Tyndale Centre has raised the stakes in the battle to combat climate change.
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