Akzo Nobel – wereldspeler in verf en chemicaliën – heeft ethisch ondernemen heilig verklaard. Ook al zijn beleggers amper geïnteresseerd. Intussen wordt Akzo geplaagd door oude affaires – met de chloortrein werd deze week afgerekend – en grillige overheden.
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Zijne Koninklijke Hoogheid de Prins van Oranje houdt donderdag 5 oktober in het Okura Hotel te Amsterdam de openingstoespraak van de conferentie Reporting: a Measure of Sustainability.
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Op 19 oktober 2006 vindt in Babel te Utrecht het seminar Eastern Neighbours, MVO in Oost-Europa plaats. Gedurende dit seminar behandelen diverse interessante sprekers op kritische en praktijkgerichte wijze de problematiek rond succesvol maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen in Oost-Europa. Het seminar is een samenwerking van MVO Nederland en Bep to the Bone.
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The view that corporate social responsibility and profits are mutually exclusive objectives is challenged in a recently released paper, Corporate social responsibility: concepts, approaches to regulation and public sector application of the GRI, by John Purcell, technical adviser at CPA Australia, and Janice Loftus from the University of Sydney.
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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.
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Shell announced initiatives it has adopted for mitigating climate change and promoting learning and education in the region, at the third Middle East Corporate Social Responsibility Summit.
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België beschikt over een Referentiekader voor Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Ondernemen (MVO)
Het referentiekader werd in concept voorgelegd aan 46 stakeholders met als resultaat een referentiekader over MVO in België en een reeks acties om MVO te promoten.
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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.
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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.
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Worlds Most Sustainable and Ethical Oil Companies 2006 is a new report by Management & Excellence S.A., the prestigious research and rating company in the areas of ethics, sustainability, corporate governance, transparency and corporate social responsibility.
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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.
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Beleggers krijgen veel te weinig informatie over de duurzaamheid van de bedrijfsvoering van grote beursgenoteerde ondernemingen. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek door de Vereniging van Beleggers voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling (VBDO) naar de duurzaamheidsverslagen van ondernemingen met notering aan de Amsterdamse effectenbeurs.
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