ESG News Review 4 – 10 October 2014ESG News Review 4 – 10 October 2014
The Dow Chemical Company was among the most praised companies last week after it announced the launch of a U.S. Apprenticeship pilot program as part of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), which also involves Alcoa; Alcoa Foundation and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) said that in its first year, their innovative new biodiversity partnership has provided support to six conservation grants across the USA. Domtar Corporation received the Environmental Strategy of the Year Award and the Innovative Printing and Writing Campaign of the Year Award at the Pulp and Paper International (PPI) Awards. Stora Enso and the Volvo Car Group (Geely Holding) joined forces to reduce carbon emissions at Volvo’s plant in Belgium with renewable energy, via a district heating connection.
Amazon was among the most criticized companies last week, as the EU competition authority said that Luxembourg’s 2003 tax ruling for its local subsidiary Amazon EU Sarl might not be in line with market conditions. Switzerland has transmitted to the French authorities documents on 300 customers of UBS suspected of evading tax, and French magistrates have proposed that UBS pay a fine of 4.88 billion euros, according to Reuters. Barclays has agreed to pay nearly $20 million to resolve a U.S. class action lawsuit accusing the bank of manipulating the Libor benchmark interest rate. A union representing German train drivers voted for strikes in a pay dispute with Deutsche Bahn. A U.S. federal judge said JPMorgan Chase must face a class action lawsuit by investors who claimed it misled them about the safety of $10 billion of mortgage-backed securities it sold before the financial crisis (Reuters).
The tag cloud below shows words found in news about these companies.
Words found in news about most praised and most criticized companies last week
This weekly review has been produced using the EthicalQuote reputation index run by Covalence, which tracks 2800 companies worldwide. It gives a summary of positive and negative news published last week about Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), ethics and sustainability.
The EthicalQuote reputation index integrates thousands of news pieces gathered online and classified according to 50 ESG criteria inspired by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and to their positive or negative sentiment.
The next heatmap represents the sentiment calculated for each of the 50 criteria last week. The 50 criteria are embedded into 7 dimensions, following the structure of the GRI. The color indicates the ratio of positive news / total news.
Ratio of positive news / total news for 50 criteria last week 0 % 
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The map below represents countries where action described in the news takes place, the color reflecting the ratio of positive news / total news for each active country using last week’s data.
Ratio of positive news / total news 0 % 100 %
In terms of volume of information USA, UK, France, India, Germany, Canada, Belgium, Spain, Japan, and China were the main countries of action.
Last week statistics
| Positives | 812 | Companies named | 317 | Countries | 63 |
| Negatives | 973 | Mostly praised | 181 | Sources | 310 |
| Total | 1785 | Mostly criticized | 130 | Â | Â |
| Positives / Total | 45% | Â | Â | Â | Â |
These figures show the activity in Covalence EthicalQuote database during the week of 4 – 10 October 2014.
Historical statistics
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| Positives | 393427 | |
| Negatives | 260230 | |
| Total | 653657 | |
| Sources | 41803 | |
| Start | 01.01.2002 | |
| End | 10.10.2014 | |
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The Dow Chemical Company was among the most praised companies last week after it announced the launch of a U.S. Apprenticeship pilot program as part of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), which also involves Alcoa; Alcoa Foundation and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) said that in its first year, their innovative new biodiversity partnership has provided support to six conservation grants across the USA. Domtar Corporation received the Environmental Strategy of the Year Award and the Innovative Printing and Writing Campaign of the Year Award at the Pulp and Paper International (PPI) Awards. Stora Enso and the Volvo Car Group (Geely Holding) joined forces to reduce carbon emissions at Volvo’s plant in Belgium with renewable energy, via a district heating connection.
Amazon was among the most criticized companies last week, as the EU competition authority said that Luxembourg’s 2003 tax ruling for its local subsidiary Amazon EU Sarl might not be in line with market conditions. Switzerland has transmitted to the French authorities documents on 300 customers of UBS suspected of evading tax, and French magistrates have proposed that UBS pay a fine of 4.88 billion euros, according to Reuters. Barclays has agreed to pay nearly $20 million to resolve a U.S. class action lawsuit accusing the bank of manipulating the Libor benchmark interest rate. A union representing German train drivers voted for strikes in a pay dispute with Deutsche Bahn. A U.S. federal judge said JPMorgan Chase must face a class action lawsuit by investors who claimed it misled them about the safety of $10 billion of mortgage-backed securities it sold before the financial crisis (Reuters).
The tag cloud below shows words found in news about these companies.
Words found in news about most praised and most criticized companies last week
This weekly review has been produced using the EthicalQuote reputation index run by Covalence, which tracks 2800 companies worldwide. It gives a summary of positive and negative news published last week about Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), ethics and sustainability.
The EthicalQuote reputation index integrates thousands of news pieces gathered online and classified according to 50 ESG criteria inspired by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and to their positive or negative sentiment.
The next heatmap represents the sentiment calculated for each of the 50 criteria last week. The 50 criteria are embedded into 7 dimensions, following the structure of the GRI. The color indicates the ratio of positive news / total news.
Ratio of positive news / total news for 50 criteria last week 0 % 100 %
The map below represents countries where action described in the news takes place, the color reflecting the ratio of positive news / total news for each active country using last week’s data.
Ratio of positive news / total news 0 % 100 %
In terms of volume of information USA, UK, France, India, Germany, Canada, Belgium, Spain, Japan, and China were the main countries of action.
Last week statistics
| Positives | 812 | Companies named | 317 | Countries | 63 |
| Negatives | 973 | Mostly praised | 181 | Sources | 310 |
| Total | 1785 | Mostly criticized | 130 | Â | Â |
| Positives / Total | 45% | Â | Â | Â | Â |
These figures show the activity in Covalence EthicalQuote database during the week of 4 – 10 October 2014.
Historical statistics
| Â | |
|
| Positives | 393427 | |
| Negatives | 260230 | |
| Total | 653657 | |
| Sources | 41803 | |
| Start | 01.01.2002 | |
| End | 10.10.2014 | |
| Â | Â | |
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