Policy

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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How organic is organic? More bad news for British farmers

24th Sep 2007 by Alex Briggs

This Times article has raised a difficult topic for organic farmers.

The article reveals that Helen Browning, the director of food and farming at the Soil Association, sends pig shoulders from Wiltshire, England to Germany for processing into sausages and imports pork loins from Sweden to make bacon.

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Climate Change and the Future, two possible scenarios

18th Sep 2007 by Alex Briggs

Dr. Glen Barry, in his Climate Change blog, presents two possible scenarios that could play out over the next 40 plus years.
More proof that business and governments need to change, now. The education level of the consumer is growing and increasingly they are demanding that businesses and governments become more accountable and more responsible. Can […]

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“Shakeout” due on Voluntary Carbon Standards

17th Sep 2007 by Alex Briggs

Following on from our Friday post on the VCS market, this article talks of a shrinking of the accepted Voluntary Carbon Standards, with just three expected to survive and thrive. The Voluntary Carbon Standard, currently being written, is one of them.

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What Assures Consumers?

1st Sep 2007

New global research sponsored by Lloyd’s Register, M&S and the Co-op shows that consumers want better independent, impartial assurance of corporations’ environmental claims.

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