Vandaag zijn de review 2004 resultaten van de Dow Jones Sustainability Indices bekend gemaakt. Ahold en VNU zijn uit de Dow Jones Sustainability World Index verwijderd. ASML en Randstad zijn echter de Nederlandse bedrijven die toegevoegd zijn aan deze index. >>> read more

SAM today announced the results of the annual review for the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI). Effective with the opening of equity markets on September 20, 2004 the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index will again include over 300 companies from >>> read more

Companies are currently facing a great variety of approaches and requirements concerning the implementation of sustainability strategies and the provision of sustainability reports. Questions focus on the relative significance ascribed to environmental protection and product orientation compared to new issues >>> read more

For the first time, the SAM/SPG Sustainability Leadership Award, which acknowledges personal excellence in implementing the principles of sustainability in the corporate sector, has gone to a leader as well as to a pioneer. The jury has singled out Antony >>> read more

NetVote, marktleider in Nederland op het gebied van elektronisch stemmen bij aandeelhoudersvergaderingen, introduceert dit jaar internet proxy voting. Deze uitbreiding op het reeds bestaande stemsysteem maakt het voor aandeelhouders mogelijk om via internet steminstructies af te geven. Bezoek van de >>> read more

(Published in The Financial Times of August 18, 2004). Your article "Exchange acts to end burden of governance" (FT.com, August 16) illustrates that, even though fatigued and reticent, companies feel compelled to respond to the growing number of ad-hoc surveys >>> read more

(Published in The Financial Times of August 18, 2004). Sir, It is encouraging to see the London Stock Exchange becoming involved in corporate social responsibility matters, with its new online disclosure tool, the Corporate Responsibility Exchange ("Exchange acts to end >>> read more

In four out of ten industry sectors, Nordic companies perform better on environment, human rights and corporate governance than their European competitors, according to a new study from GES Investment Services. But overall, British companies are outstanding. The study serve >>> read more

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) as been defined by the European Commission as the integration by companies of social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis. The European Agency for >>> read more

The OECD Guidelines recommend principles and standards for multinational enterprises, but they do not prescribe precise ways in which to measure and report actual behaviour. Where complementarities exist, the GRI indicators can be used to help measure and report on >>> read more

Interest in sustainability reporting by the public sector has been growing rapidly. Agencies on every tier of government have started down the road to better transparency and reporting on their sustainability impacts, just as the general public has started to >>> read more

Gearing Up, a new SustainAbility report launched on 24 June in New York at the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit, concludes that despite achieving impressive momentum the corporate responsibility (CR) movement is bumping up against real limits. Some responsible >>> read more