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…
Business leaders from developed and developing countries today pledged to comply with labour, human rights, environmental and anti-corruption standards as a two-day conference closed in Geneva. At the second United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit, top executives of corporations such…
The Responsible Competitiveness Index is increasingly used by investment banks and global retailers to guide their investment and purchasing decisions. “The report demonstrates the practical potential of responsible competitiveness strategies to deliver trade and investment”, says Pascal Lamy, “while striking…
McDonald's is a company on a mission. Tired of being held up as an example of corporate evil and greed, the fast food chain has been hitting out at critics with a series of environmental and social initiatives designed to…
