After examining 10,000 global companies, a panel of judges at the Ethisphere Institute selected 93 companies as the World’s Most Ethical Companies. Ethisphere Institute is a think tank that studies business ethics and corporate responsibility. This is the second year Ethisphere Magazine has published the list and the reasoning behind their selections, and the first year that Forbes is a partner.
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De Rabobank is onlangs verkozen tot “runner up” in de Financial Times Sustainable Bank of the Year verkiezing. Banco Real of Brazil won deze verkiezing.
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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the world’s largest investor collaboration on climate change, with 385 institutional investors holding assets under management of US $57 trillion, today announced the first ever findings of its Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration. Cadbury Schweppes, Dell, HP, Imperial Tobacco, L’Oréal, Nestlé, PepsiCo UK & Ireland, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser, Tesco and Unilever all work through CDP’s Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration to measure carbon risks and liabilities in the supply chain.
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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the world’s largest investor collaboration on climate change, with 385 institutional investors holding assets under management of US $57 trillion, today announced the first ever findings of its Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration. Cadbury Schweppes, Dell, HP, Imperial Tobacco, L’Oréal, Nestlé, PepsiCo UK & Ireland, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser, Tesco and Unilever all work through CDP’s Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration to measure carbon risks and liabilities in the supply chain.
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SAM, the international investment group focused on sustainability, announced the start of the annual review for the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI). For the tenth time since the initial assessment for the indexes in 1999, SAM has sent out invitations to the largest 2’500 companies worldwide to participate in the company’s yearly analysis. The assessment covers long-term economic, environmental and social criteria and reflects general as well as industry-specific sustainability trends.
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Bij de maart review van de duurzame FTSE4Good index, is het Nederlandse vastgoedbeleggingsfonds Corio toegevoegd.
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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) a collaboration of 385 institutional investors, with assets under management of $57 trillion, has issued its 2008 information request to the world’s largest corporations. This asks companies to measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and report on their strategy for dealing with risks and opportunities associated with climate change.
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SAM publiceert het Sustainability Yearbook 2008 – een naslagwerk waarin ’s werelds belangrijkste ondernemingen op het gebied van duurzaamheid worden besproken.
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On Thursday, January 24, 2007, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors officially launched the fourth Global 100 list of the most sustainable corporations in the world at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Global 100, initiated by Corporate Knights Inc. with Innovest as the exclusive research provider, includes companies from 16 countries in sectors ranging from Oil and Gas to Wireless Telecommunication Services that were evaluated according to how effectively they manage environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities, relative to their industry peers.
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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a collaboration of over 315 institutional investors, including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Allianz and HSBC, with assets under management of more than $41 trillion, is now working with some of the world’s largest companies to help them assess greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through their supply chains.
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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a collaboration of over 315 institutional investors with assets under management of more than $41 trillion, will today announce its expansion into the Netherlands. For the first time ever the Carbon Disclosure Project will send a request for climate data disclosure to the 50 largest Dutch companies as listed in the AEX and AMX indices, on behalf of all CDP signatory investors, including ABN AMRO, ABP, Robeco, PGGN, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, ASN Bank and Rabobank.
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BASF’s corporate website – www.basf.com – is the most complete and web savvy in the field of online sustainability communications. Jungle Rating – a Dutch internet consultancy – concludes this after having investigated all sustainability websites of the European sustainability leaders, listed on the DJSI STOXX index. The short list of the top 53 companies has been announced today.
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