A recent international survey by GlobeScan Inc. (formerly Environics International) reveals that consumers in North America, Europe, and Australia are consulting corporate social and environmental reports more commonly than originally thought. Knowledge of a companys social report also appears to >>> read more

Thirteen major public pension fund leaders – including eight state treasurers and comptrollers, four labor pension fund leaders, and the New York City Comptroller, collectively managing assets of nearly $800 billion- today called on the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission >>> read more

The CERES-ACCA North American Sustainability Reporting Awards hosted its second annual awards ceremony in Boston, Massachusetts today. Suncor Energy Inc. won the "Best Sustainability Report" award, beating 31 other leading sustainability reporters across North America. This award recognizes Suncors commitment >>> read more

SRI World Group, Inc., a leading provider of social investment and corporate responsibility information services, today announced the launch of OneReport™ (www.one-report.com). This new global electronic reporting network enables companies to more efficiently report their social, environmental, economic and corporate >>> read more

The global food and beverages industry has merely average performance on social and environmental sustainability, according to the latest corporate responsibility industry report released by Oekom Research, a Munich-based sustainability rating firm. The 16 companies that qualified for comprehensive "Inside" >>> read more

420 individiuals from across the globe contributed their voices to the recently concluded Structured Feedback Process (SFP). In an effort to gain feedback on many aspects of the 2002 Guidelines from a diverse array of stakeholders in all global regions >>> read more

Once again, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, a global socially responsible investment (SRI) research firm, has produced a report demonstrating the financial value of environmental, social, and corporate governance best practice. The most recent report, released earlier this week, assesses 26 >>> read more

As the stereotype goes, business students are supposed to be single-minded in their career goals: making money, more money and still more money. But don’t tell that to Daron Horwitz, who spent his spring break in Iraq — visiting schools >>> read more

High performing businesses show a strong correlation between CSR (corporate social responsibility) activities and stronger performance in terms of productivity and profitability than other businesses, according to new analysis conducted by The Work Foundation and The Virtuous Circle. The report, >>> read more

Three European firms today beat 26 other national Award winning organisations from 15 European countries when they received awards for excelling at reporting on the social and environmental impacts of their activities. Awards winners in the eighth year of the >>> read more

U.S. businesses are lagging behind their counterparts in Europe, Australia and South Africa in taking seriously their corporate social responsibility or CSR, according to a new study released today by Echo Research, the global specialists in reputation audit and analysis. >>> read more

From Mr Paul Hohnen. Sir, Readers over the past few days will be rightly perplexed about the significance of non-financial data to assessments of a company’s performance. On the one hand, it is contended by one US academic that "non-financial >>> read more