I just received a press release from Covalence alerting me that the Geneva-based ethical rankings company is "publishing today its quarterly ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress…
Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its quarterly ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in the second quarter of 2007. An overview of hot issues across sectors is…
L’histoire de l’Uranium ressemble à un compte de feu, qui a et risque de soulever les montagnes, deboulonner les gouvermenets en place et un instrument des enjeux politiques pour destabiliser ses adversaires politiques. L’Uranium fut découvert à Shinkolobwe en 1912,…
If there is one issue Angela Merkel has made her own, it is climate change. Since taking office in late 2005, the German chancellor, a former scientist, has pursued the issue with such single-mindedness that even President George W. Bush…
ATSUGI, Japan – Although "diversity" is such a novel and foreign word in Japan it's a tongue-twister, Nissan is determined to promote women and make "die-bah-she-tea," as it's called here, a pillar of its image. The diversity drive comes at…
We all know that the world is far from being a perfect place. The widening gap between the rich and poor, exploitation and violation of human rights on the workplace and beyond, unfair trade and global warming are only a…
The term “bank” can be associated with various words. Often, in fact, we read “green banks”: banks that have given support for carrying out ecosustainability to their management or of bancari institutes that invest money for the discouragement of CO2…
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday urged the government and private companies to do more "social business" to better help the poor. Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Price for his efforts to eradicate poverty, Yunus told a Tokyo news…
Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline have been named and shamed via adverts in the medical and pharmaceutical press after falling foul of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry’s Code of Practice. The ABPI’s Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority slapped Bayer…
Geneva-based Covalence tracks the ethical reputation of multinationals by sourcing information from companies, the media and civil society. Thousands of positive and negative news are quantified, coded and synthesized into charts and rankings. This ethical quotation system allows stakeholders to…
