A recent study conducted by the Pielle Consulting Group surveyed 200 UK companies about their CSR and corporate governance practices. The study will officially be launched at an upcoming international conference of the World Council for Corporate Governance.
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This is to inform you that Nutreco has reached a common understanding with Friends of the Earth the Netherlands (“Milieudefensie”) about the developments around the Johannesburg Summit in August last year. You probably remember how Milieudefensie and its Friends of the Earth sister
organisations accused us of not abiding to local laws in Chile (minimum wages, union rights, environment).
Milieudefensie now acknowledges in a official statement that they made some mistakes. This gives us the possibility to “close the book”, stop the rumour, have a proper evaluation and continue a constructive dialogue with this key international NGO.
We also agreed that we, Nutreco, will initiate a more detailed environmental impact assessment of our Chilean fish farms in lakes and ocean. Hopefully we can build upon the research work we are now doing in Scotland together with the independent Dutch research institute CREM on the development of a biodiversity assessment tool.
Today, this Milieudefensie statement is published on their web site (www.milieudefensie.nl) Nutreco also have its statement on www.nutreco.com. We will also use the Milieudefensie statement in the Social & Environmental Report 2002.
See below both the statement of Nutreco and Milieudefensie.
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The European Parlement’s Environment Committee is to discuss a draft opinion on the Commission’s follow up Communication to the CSR Green Paper on 19 February.
On 19 February, the Environment Committee in the European Parliament is to discuss a draft opinion by Dutchman Alexander de Roo, Greens/EFA) on on the Commission’s follow-up Communication to the Green Paper on CSR. The lead Committee (Social Affairs) has already held a brief discussion on the draft report by Philip Bushill-Matthews (EPP-ED, UK) on 21 January.
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ISO (International Organization for Standardization) should launch work addressing the social responsibility of organizations, according to an international advisory group including representatives of business,government regulators, trade unions and consumers.
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) rating agencies are struggling to balance the need to standardize CSR ratings with the need to differentiate their ratings from competitors’.
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The progressive careers agency, Lifeworth.com, released their Annual Review of Corporate Responsibility, The Review describes a growing interest and concern about the relationship between corporations and governments Lobbying by companies and their trade associations against social and environmental regulations or against measures to help citizens in poorer countries is identified as an emerging concern. “NGOs are gearing-up to place the political activities of corporations and their associations firmly on top of the corporate responsibility agenda this year” said lead author Dr. Jem Bendell. “If you help people with one hand while lobbying against them with the other, it won’t take long for people to call it hypocrisy. Corporate lobbying is becoming a key business risk,” he said.
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Standards Australia International have released a Draft for Public Comment Australian Standard on Corporate Social responsibility (DR 03028).
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Most of the world’s top 500 companies are failing to take action to deal with the risks of global warming, according to research on the impact of climate change on the corporate world. Some companies in the heavy industries could see their value tumble by as much as 40 per cent – equating to billions of dollars – if they ignore the threat to their business.
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On 12 February, the first Round Table meeting of the CSR EMS Forum focused on “Improving knowledge about CSR and facilitating the exchange of experience and good practice”.
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The European Parliament has agreed a motion that promotes the uptake of corporate social responsibility by European businesses – but says that this must remain a voluntary movement.
The debate, held following the World Economic Forum at Davos, called for multinational companies to include social, societal and environmental concerns in their business activities. The Parliament also agreed that the process of globalisation must be accompanied by efforts to reduce poverty.
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On 7 February 2003 the social partners of the European Sugar Industry, CEFS and
EFFAT, signed a joint code of conduct setting minimum standards on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in eight areas. The European Sugar Industry is the first sector to voluntarily agree on minimum CSR standards on a broad scale.
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In preparation for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2003, the Global Corporate Citizenship Initiative (GCCI) conducted a survey with selected signatory CEOs of the CEO Statement on Corporate Citizenship. Offering insight from 18 different industry sectors and more than 16 different countries.
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