Organizations

San Francisco - Three years after the destruction of the World Trade Center, lower Manhattan is being rebuilt embracing sustainable building principles. This is made possible through a stakeholder engagement process occurring on a mammoth scale. Dev...

BOSTON, MA - An investor guide released today outlines specific strategies for addressing the financial risks and investment opportunities posed by global warming. The guide identifies actions that pension plans, fund managers and companies can take...

Stamford, Conn. - Keep America Beautiful, Inc. has announced that Waste Management, Inc. has been selected as the 2004 recipient of its annual Vision for America Award. Keep America Beautiful is recognizing the nation's leading provider of c...

London, UK - The drive to improve assurance to stakeholders on companies' social, economic and environmental performance and intentions is gathering pace. Investors, regulators communities, employees, customers, NGOs and companies themselves are all seeking improvemen...

Washington, D.C. - Keep America Beautiful, Inc. announces its first national award - the Graffiti Hurts® National Award - to recognize programs that are bringing innovation and best practices to erase graffiti vandalism. Graffiti Hurts® was developed in 1996 through a...

Today sees the launch of the first global index, The Accountability Rating®, which evaluates how well the world's 100¹ largest companies account for their impacts on society and the environment. This topical index is released at a ...

San Francisco - Before some of the world's leading CEOs meet to discuss progress on the United Nation's Global Compact with Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the new book Raising the Bar: Creating Value with the United Nations Global Compact is already generating m...

Louisville, KY - On May 20, shareholders of Yum Brands, Inc., the parent company of Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver's, and A&W, will hear the results of their vote on a significant resolution while meeting at Yum corporate headquarters in Louisville, K...

San Francisco - May 11, 2004 - Representatives from leading global companies working in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) will assemble November 9-12, 2004, in New York City. The Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) Annual Conference is recognize...

BOSTON and HOUSTON - Faced with shareholder resolutions requesting reports on their preparedness for world constraints on carbon dioxide emissions, U.S. oil and gas companies have taken two distinct directions in response, with two companies making commitments to deve...