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29th Dec 2008 by Alex Briggs
The Disaster Resource Guide’s 2nd Annual Business Continuity Survey takes a look at the way businesses approached their Business Continuity plans in 2008 compared to 2007. Also included in the survey is an insightful look at trends into 2009.
Event: 11th May 2009 – 12th May 2009
The Responsible Business Summit is returning on 11 – 12 May 2009 for the eighth time. This conference brings together the leading minds in the corporate world to discuss the sustainability and CSR challenges facing business over the coming year.
3rd Dec 2008
A recent article on Manufacturing & Logistics IT website talks about the rapidly rising energy costs and environmental concerns have driven ‘green’ issues ever higher on the business agenda.
13th Nov 2008
The Code of Good Practice for product greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reduction claims has been developed by the Carbon Trust and Energy Saving Trust to promote the reduction of product life cycle GHG emissions.
11th Nov 2008 by Alex Briggs
Frances Way, Supply Chain Project Director for the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), talked to us about the CDP’s Supply Chain Project. This is the second episode in a four part series. The interviews for this video podcast series were conducted at the Ethical Supply Chain Summit in Berlin.
Frances shared some of the key supplier insights that the CDP have gathered in their work with the world’s leading global brands, as well as the role that verification plays in the data that the CDP collect on global supply chains.
The video can also be found here .
4th Nov 2008
CSR Europe’s CSR solutions database is a unique collection of over 600 best practice examples in corporate social responsibility.
29th Oct 2008 by Alex Briggs
This Salter-Baxter report on the world’s leading CSR reporting companies has led to increasing debate. With companies such as British-American Tobacco, Nestle and Shell at the top of the rankings, controversy is the order of the day.
Sir Jonathon Porritt, the chairman of the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, and founder of Forum for the Future, led the attack on the report,
When any company is systematically mispricing risks and systematically misallocating capital it makes no sense to talk about corporate responsibility. We’re going to have to face the fact some of the measures used to judge relative CSR performance are useless. They don’t help shareholders. They don’t help citizens. They don’t help the companies themselves.
27th Oct 2008
AA1000 AS is an international sustainability assurance standard that can be linked to other dominant business audit and assurance standards. Sustainability assurance provides a comprehensive way of holding an organisation to account for its management, performance and reporting on sustainability issues.
13th Oct 2008
The global launch of AccountAbility’s AA1000 Assurance Standard (AA1000AS) 2008 will take place next week in London and be followed by numerous regional and country level launches beginning November 2008. The new AA1000AS (2008) marks a step forward in the development of sustainability assurance. As these issues become increasingly important for businesses and their stakeholders [...]
Event: 24th Oct 2008
Keynote speakers at the global launch include: Denise Esdon, Deputy Chair IAASB; Ernst Ligteringen CEO, GRI; Kevin McKinley Deputy Secretary; ISO who provide their insights into the important but still emerging area of sustainability reporting and assurance.
LRQA’s Business Assurance helps you manage your systems and risks to improve and protect the current and future performance of your organisation.
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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