Royal Dutch Tops Innovest’s Oil & Gas Picks

Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., the global leader in analyzing extra-financial sources of investment risk, has released its most recent report on the Global Integrated Oil & Gas Sector. Of the 28 companies in the report, top sustainability performers with AAA ratings included Royal Dutch Shell, Norsk Hydro ASA, BP Plc, and Suncor Energy. Laggards included the Russian company Surgutneftegaz, and Petrochina. ... lees meer

Results of CSR ranking Global 500 companies by Fortune

About one in every ten dollars of assets under management in the U.S. – an estimated $2.3 trillion out of $24 trillion – is being invested in companies that rate highly on some measure of social responsibility. That’s a $2.3 trillion wager that socially responsible companies will outperform companies that don’t engage a wide array of stakeholders, from shareholders and customers to employees and activists, in an ongoing conversation about what can be done better. Which is why Fortune, for the second year in a row, is ranking the world’s largest companies according to how well they conform to socially responsible business practices. ... lees meer

Corporate Social Responsibility: More Than Just Charity

It is now nearly 20 years since “sustainable development” was defined by the Brundtland Commission as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” While not exactly new at the time, this event, and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development several years later, in 1992, are commonly regarded as the birth of the modern sustainability movement. ... lees meer

Growing friction in Europe over corporate responsibility

Europe’s social affairs commissioner and a British environmental leader clashed Friday over whether the European Union is succeeding in its push for more social and ecological accountability among big corporations. The exchange at a Prague conference for lawyers, business and public officials underscored a widening gap between defenders and critics of the “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) system launched in 2000 at the EU’s Lisbon summit. ... lees meer

Corporate responsibility: Why don’t they trust you with CSR?

Ethical principles are driving sales, but marketers are being left on the shelf when it comes to decisions about social responsibility. Successful brands were once built around meeting a consumer need with the right product, at the right price and of the right quality. Today, the marketing agenda has been hijacked by a much more difficult to define, but impossible to ignore, beast: corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR should be an intrinsic part of modern brand management, which means marketing and CSR departments need to work together. But for many marketers, ethics may as well be a foreign language and in most companies, the marketing and CSR departments sit on opposite sides of business with little, if any, communication between them. ... lees meer

AIR FRANCE KLM, only air transport group selected for both Dow Jones sustainability indexes for the second consecutive year

For the second consecutive year, AIR FRANCE KLM is included in the list of firms in the two Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, on a worldwide (DJSI World*) and European (DJSI STOXX) scale. AIR FRANCE KLM is the only air transport group to be included in the 2006-07 version of the DJSI STOXX, published on 6 September. ... lees meer