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LRQA Business Assurance The Guardian Climate Change Summit Podcast

8th Aug 2009 by Alex Briggs

This podcast is a result of www.businessassurance.com being a media supporter at the Guardian Climate Change Summit in London in June 2009.
Some of the global climate change experts you will hear from in this podcast include Gavin Neath, VP Unilever, Donna Young, Head of Climate Change at BT, Zac Goldsmith, former editor of the Ecologist and one of the Conservative Party’s leading environmentalists and Andy Atkins, CEO of Friends of the Earth.

Socially responsible investment and its impact to your company

20th Jul 2009 by Richard Gunawan

Socially responsible investment and its impact to your company Companies that fail to disclose their ESG performance will find it more difficult to obtain funds from institutional investors. Several pension funds, for example, consider climate change a key criterion and will exclude companies that cannot substantiate their environmental commitments.

The absence of a proper management system, policy and review will deter fund managers. Investors are more savvy in their selection of companies that prove a genuine commitment to sustainability issues.

Are Standards helping or hurting workers rights?

17th Sep 2008 by Alex Briggs

Two workers rights experts have held an insightful debate into Supply Chain standards and human rights for workers. Jeff Ballinger, academic, former union and NGO activist is clearly against standards as the end all solution for factory abuses, while Doug Cahn, consultant and formerly of Reebok, is in favour of standards and audits in bringing about change in supply chain factories around the globe.
This Ethical Corporation article features the full debate.

Corporate Social Responsibility increasingly key issue for firms

17th Mar 2008

How do Taiwanese companies support their CSR decision making?

Independent verification key to corporate credibility

14th Feb 2008 by Alex Briggs

This article talks about the the credibility that independent third-party verification of CSR reports brings for companies looking to stand out from the competition.

Nestle, Bunge, Danisco join sustainability reporting group

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.

Sustainability disclosures help build consumer trust

5th Nov 2007 by Sarah Whitworth

Ethical consumers are increasingly using ‘Sustainability Information’ to identify and have trust in their chosen brands.

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The Business Assurance approach uses a consistent methodology for providing business driven assessments based around the organisation’s most significant risks.

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