Many Americans misunderstand key phrases used in environmental marketing and advertising and believe products are more environmentally friendly than they really are, a survey has found.
The Boston College Centre for Corporate Citizenship’s 2008 Green Gap Survey found almost half of those surveyed thought products marketed as green or environmentally friendly had a positive impact on [...]
Nick Venning is a founding member of Thrive and co-chairs the Thrive Forum. In this interview he challenges the driving forces behind Corporate Social Responsibility and what will lead to sustainable best practice.
————-
Someone told me the other day that I shouldn’t talk about corporate social responsibility any more. Even plain corporate responsibility is old hat. [...]
New BSR Report Calls for Industry-Wide Collaboration
(CSRwire) SAN FRANCISCO, CA – April 29, 2008 – The Global eSustainability Initiative (GeSI) – a global partnership of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies formed to promote sustainable technology and policy for the ICT industry – today announced a new report, “The Contribution the ICT Industry Can Make [...]
According to a new report by Transparency International, Exxon Mobil, Lukoil and CNOOC are all in the bottom group for transparency amongst the oil and gas majors. The result came from a survey carried out of 42 such firms.
The report found that others, including Shell, BHP Billiton, Petrobas and Talisman Energy scored highly in the [...]
By Jay Boehmer
APRIL 28, 2008 — Though some corporations continue to advance green travel practices, the majority of respondents to a recent Business Travel News survey said their companies do not take environmental issues into consideration when making travel-buying decisions.
Many in the industry have said environmental questions are becoming commonplace on travel supplier requests for [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: The CSR 2007 status report commissioned by Bursa Malaysia reveals that Malaysian private listed companies (PLCs) generally lag behind international best practices in corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure and approach.
Chief executive officer Datuk Yusli Mohamed Yusoff said the stock exchange operator was “not surprised” by the findings.
“We are at the beginning of this [...]
This is the latest ITV Corporate Responsibility Report:
ITV 2007 Report
About ITV:
ITV is the biggest commercial television network in the UK, broadcasting the most talked about television and making a major contribution to the UK’s culture, economy and communities.
The European Commission intends to announce a package of measures next month to stimulate sustainable industrial development across the EU.
The proposals would set framework conditions needed to eliminate market failures and deal with environmental externalities, Didier Herbert, head of the sustainable industrial policy unit of the Commission told a conference organised by the UK’s Environmental [...]
Bloggers have increasingly switched the focus of their online musings to environmental sustainability - and are taking a particular interest in companies’ actions.
Consumers are increasingly using the internet to voice their greenwash concerns. A report from US market research firm Nielsen Online shows the online buzz about sustainability grew 50% in 2007.
Consumers were quick to [...]
The UK’s Office of Fair Trading has suggested that tobacco firms and supermarkets including Asda-Walmart, Sainsbury and Tesco, have been involved in an arrangement to swap information on future tobacco pricing which, whilst falling short of price-fixing, had the same effect for customers and would be, if proved, illegal.
A further allegation, which also involved tobacco [...]
