{"id":4972,"date":"2010-08-19T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T12:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2010-08-23T14:51:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T13:51:55","slug":"companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/08\/19\/companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies return to the long-neglected social side of corporate sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalcorp.com\/content.asp?ContentID=7017&amp;ContTypeID=13\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4975\" title=\"100823_ec\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/100823_ec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>67% of corporate sustainability professionals who responded to an Ethical Corporation survey said their company \u201cmeasures social and\/or economic impact of their business on the communities where they operate\u201d. This positive response astounded the 100 corporate sustainability professionals who turned up in London for a debate where Ethical Corporation shared its preliminary results for an upcoming report on &#8220;Social and economic impact: measurement, evaluation and reporting.&#8221; Are companies actually concerned with their impact on society? The company delivered a second anonymous survey, asking a similar question: \u201cHas your company conducted a study of the social or economic impact of your operations on a local community?\u201d Again, an affirming 69% of respondents answered yes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalcorp.com\/content.asp?ContentID=7017&amp;ContTypeID=13\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: global | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalcorp.com\/content.asp?ContentID=7017&amp;ContTypeID=13\" target=\"_blank\">Ethical Corporation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>67% of corporate sustainability professionals who responded to an Ethical Corporation survey said their company \u201cmeasures social and\/or economic impact of their business on the communities where they operate\u201d. This positive response astounded the 100 corporate sustainability professionals who turned up in London for a debate where Ethical Corporation shared its preliminary results for an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}