Sustainability

ICCR Welcomes Noted Indian Activist/Ecologist as Event Speaker at "Corporate Transformations", ICCR's 18th Annual Fall Fundraiser, September 23, 2004, at Tavern on the Green, New York.

NEW YORK/NAIROBI - In capital markets across the globe companies will see their share price suffer in the long term unless proper attention is paid to environmental and social issues, warns a group of the world's most powerful financial institutions.

New York - The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), the

Seattle - Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq:SBUX) today formally announced that it has joined the United Nations Global Compact. The Global Compact is an international network of corporations, U.N. agencies, trade unions and non-governmental organizations that support ...

Today sees the launch of the first global index, The Accountability Rating®, which evaluates how well the world's 100¹ largest companies account for their impacts on society and the environment. This topical index is released at a ...

New York, NY--Columbia Business School's Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE) Program, Investors' Circle, and the Social Venture Network have partnered to conduct the first national survey of for-profit social ventures, which are de...

London, UK - Marketplace is the theme of the Business in the Community Annual Conference 2004. For the first time, business, key opinion formers and media will focus on the market drivers shaping the ways business operates. Debate will cover sourcing and manufacturing...

San Francisco - Before some of the world's leading CEOs meet to discuss progress on the United Nation's Global Compact with Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the new book Raising the Bar: Creating Value with the United Nations Global Compact is already generating m...

London, UK - Next week AIESEC will be bringing together some of the brightest young undergraduates in the country in an event that will involve some of the leading speakers in Corporate Social Responsibility to ensure the next generation of business leaders know the w...

Brussels - Ethibel, the advisory and research organisation for ethical investment funds, has a new director: Marc Bontemps. In August 2004, he will succeed Bert Van Thienen.

Ethibel is known for its European Quality Label (carried...