Environmental communications is a discipline that’s coming of age. Whole armies of consultants have a wealth of advice, encouragement and cajoling on offer. Most of it is directed to business and rightly so, says Sharon O’Shea of The Greenhouse, talking here to Freddie Lawrence.
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A tangled ethical web – The best corporate sites breathe life into the complexities of corporate social …
A tangled ethical web – The best corporate sites breathe life into the complexities of corporate social responsibility DAVID BOWEN.
Corporate social responsibility has become a big issue, and with business ethics remaining at the forefront of managers’ minds it will surely stay big through bad times as well as good. It also has an interesting relationship with the web.
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On 27 March 2003, the European Commission announced the three Special Awards for excellence in the fields of Diversity, Gender Equality and Lifelong Learning and the 2003 list of 100 Best Workplaces in the European Union. The awards were presented by Anna Diamantopoulou, European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs at a Conference and Awards Ceremony in Brussels. The workplaces are honoured for the quality of their workplace environments, as determined by a survey process analysing both corporate policies and employee judgements on their own organisations.
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Royal Philips Electronics launched the company’s first annual Sustainability Report, adding detailed accountability for economic and social responsibility to its former Environmental Report. The reporting initiative is in line with the steps taken in recent years to increase transparency and accountability, adhering to the company’s business principles. Philips also announced that the company has established a Sustainability Board, Corporate Sustainability Office, corporate Sustainability Policy and a global sustainability sponsorship initiative.
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The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is an organization with a mission of developing a generally accepted, organization-level sustainability reporting framework through a multi-stakeholder, global consultative process that has involved corporations, NGOs, governments, accountancies, consultancies, labor organizations, investors, and others.
GRI is now inviting comments from companies and other stakeholders on the working draft of a Telecommunications Sectoral Supplement to the GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. In August 2002, the GRI and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) convened a task force to draft a supplement to the 2002 GRI Guidelines. The objective of this supplement is to identify additional telecom-specific economic, environmental, and social issues not directly captured in the Guidelines, and is being designed with both service providers and equipment manufacturers in the telecom sector in mind.
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The Dublin-based European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions examined four of the many issues that have an impact on the process and implementation of CSR: restructuring, subcontracting, the local community and the environment.
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Launched today is the world’s first assurance standard developed to ensure the credibility and quality of corporate public reporting on social, environmental and economic performance, as demanded by campaigners and the public, and increasingly investors and regulators.
The AA1000 Assurance Standard is unveiled today at BT’s global headquarters to an audience of several hundred senior executives from the business,public and non-governmental sectors. Plenary addresses will include those by Stephen Timms MP, the UK Government’s minister responsible for corporate social responsibility, Mervyn Pedelty, CEO of Co-operative Financial Services, and Ernst Ligteringen, CEO of the Global Reporting Initiative.
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The Norwegian insurance company Storebrand has come out top in a sustainability assessment of the insurance sector carried out by Munich-based rating agency oekom research. Storebrand beat 69 competitors for the top place in oekom’s Corporate Responsibility Rating, a sustainability rating based on 200 environmental and social criteria. The Norwegian company scored a “B” on a scale of A+ to D-. Another 15 insurance companies were assessed as having sustainability performance well above average in an international comparison by oekom research. Over 15 sustainably managed funds with a total volume of more than 750 million Euros are using oekom’s ratings in making investment decisions.
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Two leading international initiatives that promote corporate citizenship have agreed to strengthen their collaboration to help companies to improve their economic, social, and environmental performance. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Global Compact (GC) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced a new agreement that will see shared outreach, pilot programs, performance models, and technical activities aimed at elevating corporate involvement in sustainable development.
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Business in the Community has released the results of its first annual Corporate Responsibility Index today. The index publicly benchmarks the responsible business practice of top companies in the UK.
A total of 122 companies took part, with a further 15 having promised participation next year. 53 of the FTSE100 took part.
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Key performance indicators for HIV/AIDS management were set out for public feedback today.
Standardised HIV/AIDS reporting is an essential element of the global response to the pandemic. To address this need, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, initiated a multi-stakeholder process based in South Africa to build a comprehensive and credible framework for HIV/AIDS reporting.
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As corporations nationwide seek to rebound from a year of scandals, an upcoming issue of Fortune will feature a special advertising section on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) showcasing corporations innovative CSR policies and practices. The section will appear in the May 26 issue of Fortune.
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