While electronic waste continues to pile up at an increasingly rapid pace, leading IT firms such as Hewlett-Packard are finding being green and promoting corporate social responsibility can actually increase operational efficiency in China. Rather than developing a program to…
Les minerais constituent le nerf de l’insécurité persistante au Kivu. Si le commerce des minerais demeure une source importante de revenus pour la province du Nord-Kivu, il se fait malheureusement que d’importantes quantités à l’exportation échappent au circuit officiel. La…
Les mines du Katanga sont encore loin de se soustraire de l’actualité. Avec le dernier scénario qui met en cause Boss Mining, filiale de la « Central african mining and exploration company (Camec) », la bataille autour des mines de…
TOKYO (AFP) – A Japanese government website crashed Wednesday as people raced to take up an offer of a half-price McDonald's hamburger in exchange for pledging to fight global warming. The Japanese unit of the US burger giant Tuesday offered…
Two of Britain's major high street retailers launched inquiries last night into allegations that factory workers who make their clothes in India are being paid as little as 13p per hour for a 48-hour week, wages so low the workers…
The bottled water industry has recently come under attack by critics who say they are concerned about the quantity of water bottles going to our landfills and the energy used transporting them to market. But those who propose bans on…
The phenomenon of corporate 'Greenwashing'- that is, the unjustified appropriation of environmental virtue by a company to unjustly create a pro-environmental  image- has become increasingly common as environmental responsibility becomes both a primary subject of corporate ethical debates and a…
Les risques éthique liés à l’innovation pèsent de plus en plus sur la réputation des firmes pharmaceutiques, indique un rapport publié le 29 aoà»t 2007 par la société genevoise Covalence, Covalence Pharmaceutical Industry Report 2007. Ces risques liés à l’innovation…
Fair trade organisation gebana has joined Switzerland's leading retailer, Migros, to market what it claims is the world's first ecological and fairly traded fuel. Petrol pump operator Migrol - part of Migros - will buy green fuel from gebana at…
Pharmaceutical companies carry increasing ethical risks related to innovation, states a report released on 29 August 2007 by Geneva-based ethical reputation research firm Covalence, Covalence Pharmaceutical Industry Report 2007. These innovation-related risks deal with intellectual property rights, drug pricing, clinical…
