Sustainability

ZURICH -- Gestnord Fondi has licensed the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) to align two existing funds with the DJSI family. The "Nordfondo Etico Obbligazionario Misto" - a balanced fund launched in March 1999 - will from now on apply the Dow...

ARLINGTON, VA - Thirteen businesses have been selected finalists in the 2003 Better Business Bureaus' International Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics competition. The winner from each of four categories will be announced on September 29, 2003 at an awards ceremony i...

LONDON - Earlier this month Trade and Industry Secretary, Patricia Hewitt MP, announced that the Government will ‘fast track’ the introduction of non-financial reporting for large companies. Originally, the DTI indicated that reporting on non-tangi...

TORONTO, Canada - According to the third annual Global Issues Monitor survey of over 22,000 citizens in 22 countries, people want less privatization in the water / sewage treatment and oil sectors. Conversely, they support more privatization in publ...

DEERFIELD, IL--Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) today launched its fourth annual sustainability report, "Our Progress: Generation to Generation." The report features illustrations by children related to Baxter employees around the world as a reminder of the com...

LONDON - The European Business Ethics Network-UK (EBEN-UK) in conjunction with the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE) is organising a one day conference on Teaching Business Ethics. This is the third in a series of conferences that have been organised by EBEN and supp...

SYDNEY - Westpac Banking Corporation today released its 2003 Social Impact Report, titled: ‘Who Cares?… about Corporate Responsibility.’ The report draws on perspectives of individual employees, customers and other stakeholders to give a view from the street an...

LONDON - Senior Executives from UK, Europe and around the world are invited to a small, colloquial meeting on September 24 & 25 2003 in London, UK to discuss tactics and strategies centring on eight CRITICAL themes in CSR, and sustainability.

LONDON - At Business in the Community’s annual ‘A Better Way of Doing Business’ conference July 10, Richard Lambert of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee presented ‘Indicators that Count’, the report published on July 7 on indicators fo...

LONDON - At Business in the Community’s annual ‘A Better Way of Doing Business’ conference July 10, The Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, gave the following keynote address.