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New WBCSD guide encourages doing business with the poor
Source: WBCSD, 30 March 2004The WBCSD released "Doing business with the poor: A field guide". Dhtis guide explores how several companies are starting to break into an untapped market of over four billion potential customers in ways that benefit both the poor and the >>> read more
Business Group Links Social and Environmental Performance with Shareowner Value
Source: Institutionalshareowner.Com, 29 March 2004A recent Global Environmental Management Initiative report adds to the growing body of evidence correlating social and environmental performance with shareowner value. According to Cap Gemini Ernst & Young researchers Jonathan Low and Pamela Cohen Kalafut, somewhere between 50 and >>> read more
Social Investors Urge World Bank to Adopt Extractive Industries Review Proposals
Source: SocialFunds.Com, 26 March 2004The World Bank Group (WBG), whose mission is to alleviate poverty in the developing world, exerts influence not only through its own investments and actions, but also as an exemplar. A coalition of US- and Canada-based socially responsible investment (SRI) >>> read more
March 2004 Update of GRI
Source: Global Reporting Initiative, 23 March 2004The March 2004 Update of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Attention software developers: GRI issues RFP There is wide recognition that software-based reporting tools could offer an important ‘win/win’ contribution to sustainability reporting. Such tools have significant potential to facilitate >>> read more
Philips launches second annual sustainability report and asks for involvement of its 50,000 suppliers
Source: Philips, 22 March 2004Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today released the companys second annual Sustainability Report. The Report shows the progress made against goals established in the 2002 version. An important step was the extension of the sustainability principles to Philips >>> read more
Companies that Count: results of the UK Corporate Responsibility Index published
Source: Business in the Community, 15 March 2004The results of the second Corporate Responsibility Index were published today (Sunday, March 14th 2004) in The Sunday Times ‘Companies that Count’ supplement. Participation in the Index is up by 14% on the previous year, with 139 companies now using >>> read more
ANEC Position Paper Standardisation and Corporate Social Responsibility
Source: ANEC, 10 March 2004This position paper outlines the requirements and recommendations as identified by ANEC with respect to the desirability and feasibility of standards on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Both at national and international level, initiatives exist related to CSR and standardisation. In >>> read more
Inaugural Survey Analyzes Disclosure on Corporate Social Responsibility by Listed Companies in the Czech Republic
Source: CSRWire.Com, 10 March 2004Today, The Leadership Forum released its first Survey of Reporting on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by Listed Companies in the Czech Republic." The survey is part of a wider regional initiative organized by East-West Management Institutes Partners for Financial Stability >>> read more
Corporate Governance verslaat MVO"
Source: FinancialsOnly, 9 March 2004Voor de gemiddelde belegger is corporate governance een veel belangrijker thema dan maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen (MVO). Optieregelingen voor topbestuurders, de benoeming van commissarissen en het stemrecht van aandeelhouders wegen in de beleggingsstrategie veel zwaarder mee dan het beleid van een >>> read more
UN group to measure companies’ social virtues
Source: Financial Times, 3 March 2004The United Nations Global Compact, a voluntary grouping of companies and pressure groups that promotes corporate social responsibility, is preparing its first in-depth study of whether the initiative is having any measurable impact on businesses. The exercise comes as analysts >>> read more
U.N. Releases New Guidelines on Corporate Environmental Accounting
Source: UNCTAD, 1 March 2004The United Nations Conference on Trade and Environment (UNCTAD) has released new guidelines on eco-efficiency indicators that link the environmental performance of corporations to their financial performance. The guidelines have now been adopted by Ciba Specialty Chemicals, making it the >>> read more