Organizations

WASHINGTON, DC - There is mounting evidence that failure to respond to the risks posed by climate change could result in multi-billion dollar losses for U.S. businesses and investment portfolios, and this failure could represent a breach of fiduciary duty on the part of corp...

NEW YORK-The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international sustainability reporting institution, was formally inaugurated at a luncheon attended by over 200 guests at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on 4 April 2002. The GRI was convened in 1997 by the ...

Social Accountability International (SAI) announced today that more than 100 facilities are now certified to the SA8000 humane workplace standard. Just three years after the first certificate was issued, there are now 118 facilities employing more than
70,000 workers t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...