Eurosif, the European Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum, a pan-European network for promoting and developing SRI across Europe is launched today at the EC Belgian Presidency Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Brussels. The creation of Eurosif has been driven by the recent growth of interest in SRI across Europe, by a variety of actors, including the European Commission, NGOs and investment institutions.
Eurosif will enable the exchange of information and expertise and will act as a platform for all actors in Europe, interested in sustainable and responsible investment. Today, Eurosif has also launched its website – www.eurosif.info – the first pan-European access point on the web for information about sustainable and responsible investment.
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The Belgian Presidency and CSR-Europe organised on 27 November the event ‘Europe investing in values’. A survey of European financial analysts and investment managers highlighted the growing recognition of the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR). A multi-country campaign was launched in order to energise large and small companies around Europe on these topics.
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The Olympic movement has announced that it believes that as sport can be a powerful agent for change, it has the ability and responsibility to contribute to achieving sustainable development in sport and through sport, particularly as the environment – along with sport and culture – is one of the three dimensions of Olympism.
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Representatives from some of the largest multinational corporations in the world gather this week in Seattle to discuss issues such as globalization, environmental policy and labor practices.
But this won’t be another WTO, the infamous 1999 world trade conference that sparked days of violent protests. At the Business for Social Responsibility conference, Microsoft, Ford, Weyerhaeuser and Starbucks will be talking about how they can be better corporate citizens.
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The temptation for organisations to meet the growing demand for information on the environmental, social and economic impact of their activities by putting reports exclusively onto their websites, can create problems for them and the stakeholders who want that information, a new guide by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Next Step Consulting Ltd, communications, policy and strategy specialists, has revealed.
The publication, Environmental, Social and Sustainability Reporting on the World Wide Web: A Guide to Best Practice looks at how the web should be used for sustainability reporting, gives best practice examples and reveals the ‘seven deadly sins’ of web-based reporting – and how to avoid them.
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In preparation for its early-2002 launch as an independent standards-setting body, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has kicked off a drive to enlist an international network of Individual Stakeholders.
By reaching out and engaging a diverse population supportive of improved corporate and organizational accountability and public reporting, said Dr. Robert Kinloch Massie, GRI Steering Committee Chair, we will expand the broad coalition that is working to ensure the long-term viability of an independent GRI.
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An update from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the guidelines for sustainability reporting.
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For the first time, judges also give Honorable Mention to a paper that provides compelling evidence of no significant cost for actively managed screened portfolios.
Multinationals employing the lowest environmental standards possible in their overseas operations would be considered a bad investment by social investors. Those investors would be right on the money, say the winners of this year’s Moskowitz Prize, the social investment industry’s prestigious award for outstanding research in the field of socially responsible investing.
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A group of large Nordic companies are participating in an unusual partnership to create their view of a future sustainable company.
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The Business Case for Sustainable Development: Making a Difference Towards the Johannesburg Summit 2002 and Beyond is the latest report of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
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World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn appealed to business leaders to further expand their notions of corporate responsibility beyond earnings to encompass obligations to society at large, especially in developing countries.
Corporate sustainability today includes recognition of the leadership role that the private sector must take in ensuring social progress, improved equity, higher living standards, and stewardship for the environment, Wolfensohn said yesterday in a World Bank-sponsored workshop. Corporate responsibility is not philanthropy-it is good business, he said.
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Listed companies that are leading the way with their environmental and social policies are selling themselves and their shareholders short by failing to make the case to the City, according to research published by Business in the Environment (BiE). When asked to name spontaneously the most important factors to take into account when judging companies, 13% of companies’ own investor relations managers (IRMs) deemed environmental and social issues important – but only 3% of analysts, 4% of institutional investors and 3% of financial journalists.
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