Today, 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

Voor 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

The 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

The 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

The British Library was today host to the ACCA UK awards for Sustainability Reporting, where eleven organisations were rewarded for reporting on the social and environmental impacts of their activities. NHS Purchasing & Supply, the Co-operative Bank plc and Royal >>> read more

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants held its thirteenth UK awards for Sustainability Reporting, this week. The Co-operative Bank plc, GlaxoSmithKleine and the Royal Mail Group plc, were among the eleven organisations acknowledged for the social and environmental reporting of >>> read more

The February 2003 Update of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Attention software developers: GRI issues RFP 13 February 2004 There is wide recognition that software-based reporting tools could offer an important ‘win/win’ contribution to sustainability reporting. Such tools have significant >>> read more

Shareholders may deploy a powerful new weapon against companies that fail to disclose the social, ethical and environmental risks to their business by refusing to endorse the company report and accounts, a leading investor lobby group warned yesterday. The Association >>> read more

A study predicts that specialised research organisations providing data for sustainable and socially-responsible investment (SRI) face major challenges, particularly in their attempts to attract interest from mainstream investors. The study also urges leading investors and asset managers to take a >>> read more

A new initiative offers guidance for listed companies on how to achieve good corporate governance. It comes against a backdrop of major corporate scandals such as at the Italian food giant Parmalat and the Dutch retailer Ahold. New corporate governance >>> read more

Today the European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA) launched the European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER), the first Europe-wide register of industrial emissions into air and water. For the first time, detailed information on pollution from around 10,000 large >>> read more

Representatives of the Commission, business community and academia have been debating differences and points of convergence between the concepts of corporate governance and CSR. Corporate ethics has entered the limelight in the past few years as a result of a >>> read more