SAM, the sustainability investment specialist, and Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, have added four additional blue-chip indexes to the family of Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI). The new indexes provide market participants with tools to track sustainability leaders in the U.S., North America and globally.
The methodology for the new indexes applies the [...]
Written on August 27, 2008 | Posted in
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The U.K. manufacturing sector has an overall positive view of environmental issues, with a majority of companies taking action, but smaller companies are having a tougher times, according to a recent survey.
Envirowise and EEF talk to 562 companies for the report “Measuring performance - Environment survey 2008.” The manufacturing companies represent more than 122,000 employees. [...]
Boards of directors are increasingly starting to integrate social and environmental considerations (CSR) into their strategy and risk management, according to the report “The Role of the Board of Directors in Corporate Social Responsibility” by the Conference Board of Canada, a non-profit that researches business and economic trends.
The report finds that the Canadian companies concentrate [...]
Despite growing efforts to measure their carbon emissions, almost 75 per cent of firms’ carbon footprints are typically going unrecorded, according to a new study from Carnegie Mellon University.
The research, published last week, claimed that the majority of firms publishing greenhouse gas emissions data are failing to account for the carbon impact of their supply [...]
Written on August 22, 2008 | Posted in
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Communications professionals from around the world want to raise the profile of their organisations’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts by beefing up communications and backing stand-alone CSR departments, MarketingCharts reports.
In a poll by Ragan Communications and PollStream, some 70% of the 439 respondents indicated that their companies practice and communicate CSR. 43% would like to [...]
Big U.K. firms should give employees more of a say in greening their workplaces, and U.S. companies need to live up to their eco-friendly business practices internally as well as externally, according to findings from two worker attitude surveys.
The separate surveys asked jobholders to assess their green activities and those of their employers. The U.S. [...]
Amid rising investor worries over global warming and shrinking natural resources, directors are keeping a closer watch on environmental issues, the Wall Street Journal reports.
About 25% of Fortune 500 companies now have a board committee overseeing the environment, compared with fewer than 10% five years ago, estimates Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, a national coalition [...]
Written on August 19, 2008 | Posted in
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) on Friday will formally unveil its newest, eco-friendly data center. But visitors who want to check it out will have to log in to Linden Lab’s Second Life virtual world — the only place the facility actually “exists.”IBM plans a rich-media Webcast on Friday to promote the center, which sits behind a [...]
The unofficial race between the UK’s leading supermarkets to see who can save the most plastic bags stepped up a gear yesterday after Tesco claimed it has reduced the number of single use carrier bags distributed over the last two years by two billion.
The company said that since the launch in August 2006 of its [...]
RWE npower, one of largest utility companies in the UK, published its latest Corporate Responsibility Report not so long ago:
2007 RWE npower Corporate Responsibility Report
