Sustainability
Balancing impacts through responsible business practices, supply chains and energy use.
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07-05-02
Back to Basics: NGOs’ Failure to Work Together Means a Return to Direct Action at Sustainability Summit
LONDON, England - Pressure groups’ inability to work together and agree a common set of goals means they risk missing their best opportunity in 10 years to affect world thinking - August’s World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). That is the conclusion of a report rel...
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07-04-02
CSRWorld Launches Online Labour Law Database for South Asia.
NEW DELHI, India - CSRWorld recently launched an online database called "Country Profiles". This section contains labour law database of South Asian countries like India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Country Profiles section is mainly designed for social compli...
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07-02-02
Christian Brothers Investment Services is Largest Socially Responsible Institutional Asset Manager
NEW YORK, New York - Christian Brothers Investment Services, Inc. (CBIS), a leading investment management firm serving the Catholic institutional market, announced today that new rankings by Pensions & Investments magazine indicate that it is the nation's largest institu...
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06-27-02
U.S. Egg Industry Introduces Sweeping Changes to Animal Welfare Standards
Washington, D.C. - United Egg Producers (UEP) today announced a new certification program that brings significant animal welfare changes to the industry.
The new guidelines, which are based on scientific studies, include increasing the space allowance per hen an...
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06-27-02
More Corporate Social Responsibility Resources at www.BSR.org
SAN FRANCISCO, California - Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) announced new features and content on its website, www.bsr.org, a global point of access for information and resources on corporate social responsibility. The redesigned website offers BSR members and the g...
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06-27-02
Annual Stock Market Outperformance of 17% is Achieved by Environmental Leaders in the Global Pharmaceutical Sector
NEW YORK, New York - Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., the global leader in intangible value analysis, has released a new 100-page report on the relative corporate environmental performance among 29 pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Innovest fou...
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06-26-02
World’s Citizens Have Great Expectations of Globalization
TORONTO, Ontario - According to the 2002 Global Issues Monitor survey, conducted between October and December 2001, the world’s citizens have great expectations of globalization and are increasingly receptive to it since one year ago.
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06-26-02
Correction -
On June 26, 2002, on behalf of Social
Accountability International (SAI), CSRWire posted a press release
regarding the 16th Annual Corporate Conscience Awards (CCA). The final
judge's decisions to select the winners of this year's CCA have not yet
be...
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06-19-02
News Service Launches Article Series in Preparation for Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development
Brattleboro, VT – SocialFunds.com recently released the first two articles in a multi-part series on sustainable development written from an investor’s perspective. The intent is to prepare investors, companies, government officials, nonprofit groups, academics, and media fo...
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06-17-02
International Paper Discontinues Divestiture Efforts for Two Business Units
STAMFORD, Connecticut - International Paper (NYSE: IP) today announced it will discontinue divestiture efforts for its Arizona Chemical and Industrial Papers businesses. Both businesses will remain a part of the company.
