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

While calls from MPs to make social and environmental reporting mandatory have not yet been answered by the government, ACCA will be rewarding some of those organisations that have engaged in voluntary reporting at the annual ACCA UK Awards for >>> read more

When it comes to sex, drugs and rock’n’roll, the media never tire of airing dirty laundry. Unfortunately, this prevents serious coverage of truly obscene stories, such as the everyday corporate malfeasance that is undermining society’s triple bottom line of economic, >>> read more

A survey, entitled "Race to the Top: Attracting and Enabling Global Sustainable Business", has found that sixty-one per cent of respondents (executives of multinational enterprises) were seeking strong laws on CSR when seeking partners, which are rigorously enforced to create >>> read more

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is to hold an international conference on the social responsibility of organizations on 21-22 June 2004 in Stockholm, Sweden. The input provided by the conference will complement the current exploration by ISO of social responsibility >>> read more

A new report from the Nordic Partnership takes the temperature of business/NGO partnerships in the Nordic region one year after the 2002 Johannesburg Summit. The report, A New Era of Nordic Partnerships for Sustainability? finds that many Nordic organisations are >>> read more

January 2004 update of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Diverse range of organisations show their support for GRI Oxfam International recently demonstrated its support for GRI’s mission by registering as an Organisational Stakeholder (OS). Over the last month GRI has >>> read more

Corporate social responsibility is increasingly influencing where and with whom major multinational corporations do business. That is the conclusion of Race to the Top, a new study prepared for the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. The project was >>> read more