Sustainability
Balancing impacts through responsible business practices, supply chains and energy use.
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10-10-06
Business as an Agent of World Benefit Global Forum
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The Business as an Agent of World Benefit Global Forum will bring corporate and academic thought-leaders together in a unique setting to combine theory with practice as a means of challenging the current...
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10-09-06
New Web-based Tool Aims to Simplify and Improve UN Global Compact ''Communication on Progress'' Reporting
New York - Today, the UN Global Compact launched a comprehensive, web-based tool - OneReport Communication on Progress (COP) Publisher - to help Global Compact participants prepare and publish progress reports on integrating the ten principles into day-to-day business opera...
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10-06-06
UN Global Compact and Global Reporting Initiative Form Strategic Alliance
(Amsterdam, 6 October 2006) - The world's two most significant international corporate citizenship initiatives announced today that they have united in a strategic alliance aimed at providing the global private sector with an opportunity to embrace a responsible business str...
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10-04-06
Innovest's Top Pharma Picks Up by 20%
New York - Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., the global leader in analyzing extra-financial sources of investment risk, has released its most recent report on the Global Pharmaceutical Sector. Of the 44 companies in the report, top sustainability performers with AAA ...
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10-04-06
Alcoa Receives Top Marks in Corporate Governance and Ethics
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa (NYSE:AA) received top rankings on its corporate governance practices and ethical reputation by two major rating agencies.
Alcoa received an excellent standard of corporate governance with an overall rating of 9....
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10-03-06
Global Compact Delists 335 Companies
(New York/UN Global Compact Office) - As part of a general strategic drive towards elevating the integrity and accountability of the initiative, the Global Compact Office today announced that it has removed 335 companies from its global participant list.
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10-03-06
One Week to go to Register for eco6 - Don't Miss the Start of Something Big
London - economie, the international organisation dedicated to the education, promotion and development of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) worldwide, are hosting eco6 on 9th - 10th October 2006 in Zurich. eco6 is economie's flagship annual conference aimed at raising ...
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10-03-06
Benchmark Asset Managers introduces the Benchmark Collaborative
PHILADELPHIA, Penn. - Benchmark Asset Managers announced today that it has created the Benchmark Collaborative Index, a new socially screened index designed to replicate the performance of the Standard & Poor's 500 while reflecting the values and beliefs of Catholic inve...
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10-03-06
Fred Alger Management, Inc. to Launch 'Green' Mutual Fund in Conjunction with Bill Clinton's Global Initiative
New York, New York-- Fred Alger Management, a leading asset management firm, in conjunction with the Clinton Global Initiative held recently in New York City, announced today that it plans to launch the Spectra Green Fund.
The fund will be dedi...
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10-03-06
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Releases First Corporate Social Responsibility Report
WATERBURY, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2006--Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) today released its first corporate social responsibility report, "From Understanding to Action," outlining the Company's economic, environmental and social performance for Fi...
