CSR News

NEW YORK--Reforms are increasing pressures and workload in the boardroom, but directors remain committed to governance, according to a recent study by Corporate Board Member magazine. The survey responses of directors of public companies will be hig...

Washington - At a press conference here today, leaders from national environmental and civil liberties groups called on Attorney General John Ashcroft to drop a criminal case against Greenpeace USA pending in Miami, which could set a dangerous prece...

ISRAEL--Egged, the largest public transportation company in Israel, has recently released its first environmental report for 2002. This is the first report in Israel to follow Global Reporting Initiative guidelines. In doing so, Egged is leading a s...

Washington DC - This week, investment company Boston Common Asset
Management filed a shareholder resolution with Newmont Mining Corporation, the world's largest gold-mining firm, calling on the company to prepare a report on the risk to the co...

BETHESDA, MD -- The Calvert Social Research Department has submitted the following recommendations regarding actions within the Calvert Social Index. If approved, the following recommendations will be effective when the Calvert Social Index Committee convenes its quar...

Washington, DC - Leaders from a wide range of advocacy groups will join with Greenpeace at a Dec. 11 press conference to call on Attorney General John Ashcroft to drop his prosecution of Greenpeace for a nonviolent protest by several of its supporters.

JUPITER, FL -- Power Systems Mfg., LLC (PSM), a subsidiary of Calpine Corporation [NYSE:CPN], has made a major step forward toward achieving another industry first for reducing Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) and Carbon Monoxide (CO) emissions from natural gas-fired industrial t...

London, UK - How a nation deals with social and environmental issues has a direct impact on its national economic competitiveness and growth prospects. Nations that fail to address Corporate Responsibility issues expose businesses to potential costs such as those asso...

MILAN, ITALY - The California Climate Action Registry (CA Registry) is building the online greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting application for the World Economic Forum’s Global GHG Register. Announced today at the COP-9 conference on global warming in Milan, Italy, the GH...

Milan, Italy - The World Economic Forum today announced it is creating a Global Greenhouse Gas Register to facilitate the disclosure and management by companies of their worldwide climate emissions. Developed in partnership with leading business and environmental orga...