Sustainability

LONDON, UK and OSLO, NORWAY - Storebrand has delivered good news to investors concerned about maximising returns who also have any eye to pursuing a socially responsible strategy. In the final quarter of 2003 the flagship Storebrand Principle Global Fund outperformed...

Dr Mohan Kaul, CEO of the Commonwealth Business Council, has criticised the conclusions of the Christian Aid report, Behind the mask: the real face of corporate social responsibility, launched last week.

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A few places are still available on the “Business and Sustainability” course, taking place between March 7-11 2004 with Simon Zadek, at the world-renowned Schumacher College in Devon. This unique residential course provides participants with a rare opportunity ...

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A new report from the Nordic Partnership takes the temperature of business/NGO partnerships in the Nordic region more than one year after the 2002 Johannesburg Summit. The report, “A New Era of Nordic Partnerships for Sustaina...

Although most of CSR research and literature focuses on multinational companies (MNCs), the issue is of similar, if not greater, importance for small and medium enterprises. In many countries these companies are important engines of economic growth and employment crea...

The World Bank Institute and its partners are pleased to announce a global e-conference on the broad theme of strategies for successful poverty reduction involving the ideas and energy of young people.

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Davos, Switzerland - In a move to combat global corruption within their own industry, 19 leading international engineering and construction (E&C) companies today signed and adopted a set of business principles for countering bribery, as part of the World Economic...

Kolkata, India - The field of Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility is steadily growing in major developing countries such as India, Russia, South Africa, China and Brazil. New initiatives and networks have emerged and the field is abuzz with a variety ...

Davos, Switzerland – The World Economic Forum today officially launched the Global Greenhouse Gas Register, a new global initiative to stimulate the disclosure and management by companies of their worldwide climate emissions. Developed in partnership with leading inte...

Davos, Switzerland – Corporate reputation is a more important measure of success than stock market performance, profitability and return on investment, according to a survey of some the world’s leading CEOs and organization leaders. Only the quality of products and se...