Materiality

Socially responsible investment and its impact to your company

– 20th Jul 2009 by Richard Gunawan

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.

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Restoring Trust in CSR

– 26th Sep 2008 by Alex Briggs

This video interview with Alan Knight offers insight into the new AA1000AS standard. The standard will be launched in London on the 24th of October.

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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.

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In Latin America, Companies Are Becoming More Interested in Social Corporate Responsibility

– 18th Apr 2008 by Raz Chaudary

The main CSR drivers in Latin America are:

Education,
Social Action & Poverty Programs
Ethical Labour
Healthcare
Childhood Development

For more information please follow this link http://www.wharton.universia.net/index.cfm?

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Corporate Social Responsibility increasingly key issue for firms

– 17th Mar 2008 by Raz Chaudary

How do Taiwanese companies support their CSR decision making?

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BT’s Expansion of Materiality in CSR Operations

– 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.

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What’s new for Supply Chains?

– 10th Oct 2007 by Gail Van Den Bos

There’s a great deal of information available about supply chains. And increasingly, it’s highlighting new areas. No longer limited to product safety recalls and logistical headaches, we’re now hearing more about green supply chains, ethical supply chains, carbon management in supply chains, reverse outsourcing, supply chain security and so on.

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The AA1000AS 2nd edition

– 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.

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Think beyond the carbon label

– 2nd Jul 2007 by Tim Kitchin

If we are to trade our way out of climate change, consumers are going to need to make much better environmental choices.

Realistically, they will need a lot more information; honestly produced and simply presented.

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UK Environmental Disclosure not up to scratch

– 15th Dec 2006

According to the Environment Agency in England and Wales, 84% of FTSE 100 companies fail to disclose environmental performance in line with Government guidelines.

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