Businesses worldwide are failing to produce enough sustainability reports, while governments are doing little to encourage such reporting – which would have a direct benefit for business and the environment, a global survey by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified >>> read more

You are invited to share your views on Corporate Social Responsibility in the E-discussion that starts on the 20th of September. In this first E-newsletter from the European Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility we inform you about the E-discussion leading >>> read more

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Ceres, a US coalition of environmental and investor groups today called for submissions to the Ceres-ACCA North American Awards for Sustainability Reporting 2004. These awards, the first ever in North America, are >>> read more

Vandaag zijn de review 2004 resultaten van de Dow Jones Sustainability Indices bekend gemaakt. Ahold en VNU zijn uit de Dow Jones Sustainability World Index verwijderd. ASML en Randstad zijn echter de Nederlandse bedrijven die toegevoegd zijn aan deze index. >>> read more

SAM today announced the results of the annual review for the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI). Effective with the opening of equity markets on September 20, 2004 the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index will again include over 300 companies from >>> read more

Companies are currently facing a great variety of approaches and requirements concerning the implementation of sustainability strategies and the provision of sustainability reports. Questions focus on the relative significance ascribed to environmental protection and product orientation compared to new issues >>> read more

For the first time, the SAM/SPG Sustainability Leadership Award, which acknowledges personal excellence in implementing the principles of sustainability in the corporate sector, has gone to a leader as well as to a pioneer. The jury has singled out Antony >>> read more

NetVote, marktleider in Nederland op het gebied van elektronisch stemmen bij aandeelhoudersvergaderingen, introduceert dit jaar internet proxy voting. Deze uitbreiding op het reeds bestaande stemsysteem maakt het voor aandeelhouders mogelijk om via internet steminstructies af te geven. Bezoek van de >>> read more

(Published in The Financial Times of August 18, 2004). Your article "Exchange acts to end burden of governance" (FT.com, August 16) illustrates that, even though fatigued and reticent, companies feel compelled to respond to the growing number of ad-hoc surveys >>> read more

(Published in The Financial Times of August 18, 2004). Sir, It is encouraging to see the London Stock Exchange becoming involved in corporate social responsibility matters, with its new online disclosure tool, the Corporate Responsibility Exchange ("Exchange acts to end >>> read more

In four out of ten industry sectors, Nordic companies perform better on environment, human rights and corporate governance than their European competitors, according to a new study from GES Investment Services. But overall, British companies are outstanding. The study serve >>> read more

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) as been defined by the European Commission as the integration by companies of social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis. The European Agency for >>> read more