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Materiality

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

18th Apr 2008 by razchaudary

The main CSR drivers in Latin America are:

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

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Corporate Social Responsibility increasingly key issue for firms

17th Mar 2008 by razchaudary

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 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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Materiality Breakfast Briefing

5th Dec 2006

Alan Knight, Head of Standards and Related Services at AccountAbility, Deborah Evans, Business Manager - Corporate Reporting and Assurance at LRQA and Chris Tuppen, Head of SD & Corporate Accountability at BT present the concept of materiality, how different companies have tackled the issue, and propose a Materiality Framework that everyone can use.

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Materiality - An AccountAbility View

29th Nov 2006

Materiality - An AccountAbility View Simon Zadek, Chief Executive at AccountAbility, gives his view on what Materiality means for industry.

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The need for materiality

9th Nov 2006

Following today’s release of the Materiality Report, LRQA’s Deborah Evans talks about the need for materiality in non-financial reporting, outlining steps that companies can take to ensure that what they report is relevant and useful to management and stakeholders.

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VCS 2007

The Voluntary Carbon Standard 2007 (VCS 2007) aims to provide a trustworthy, robust global standard for voluntary carbon offsets.

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Product Conformity

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