Organizations
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Global Reporting Initiative to be Officially Inaugurated at United Nations Headquarters
BOSTON, USA - The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international sustainability reporting institution, will be formally inaugurated at a luncheon event to be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on 4 April 2002 at 13:00. Incubating under the auspice...
Global Reporting Initiative Announces First Board of Directors
Boston, USA - The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), convened to develop an internationally accepted framework for sustainability reporting for businesses and other organisations, announced today the appointment of fourteen members to its first Board of Directors. This annou...
Socially Screened Assets Grew 1.5 Times Faster Than all U.S.Managed Portfolio Assets Since 1999
The market may be in a slump, but socially responsible investing is growing at a strong rate. Assets in socially screened investment portfolios under professional management rose by more than a third from 1999 to 2001 to top the $2 trillion mark for the first time ever, acc...
BSR’s Annual Conference Examines How Responsible Business Practices Address Global Challenges
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) invites business leaders everywhere to attend the BSR 2001 Annual Conference and actively advance shared values in the face of both immediate and long-term economic, social and environmental challenges. To be held November 7-9 in Seat...
BSR Online Resource Enables Effective Corporate Responses to September 11th Disaster
In the aftermath of the September 11th tragedy, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) announces an online information center to help businesses address the needs of employees and contribute to the recovery efforts in New York and Washington, D.C.
Internationally Recognized Architectural Firm Endorses CERES Principles of Environmental Conduct
McDonough + Partners, an award-winning architecture and community design firm based in Charlottesville, Virginia, today announced its endorsement of the CERES Principles, a code of environmental conduct established by CERES, the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Econ...