{"id":7959,"date":"2013-06-24T00:45:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T23:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=7959"},"modified":"2013-08-12T12:17:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T11:17:12","slug":"esg-news-review-15-21-june-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2013\/06\/24\/esg-news-review-15-21-june-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"ESG News Review 15-21 June 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ford has been praised for cutting production emissions by 37% per vehicle since 2000, while HSBC (and Standard Chartered) officers have been caught in a Cobrapost sting operation, offering to launder money.<\/p>\n

This weekly review is 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 Environment, Social, Governance (ESG), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), ethics and sustainability.<\/p>\n

Last week 382 companies have been named in 2773 news pieces gathered by Covalence. 240 companies had more positive than negative news, while 130 registered a majority of negatives, and 12 were balanced.<\/p>\n

The most praised<\/strong> companies last week were: Ford Motor Co., AT&T Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Nike Inc., and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd..<\/p>\n

And the most criticized<\/strong> were: HSBC Holdings plc, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc., Bank of America Corporation, Finmeccanica SpA, and BP plc.<\/p>\n

The tag cloud below shows words found in news about these companies.
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\"Words<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Words found in news about most praised and most criticized companies last week<\/span><\/p>\n

The EthicalQuote reputation index integrates thousands of news pieces gathered online and classified according to 50 ESG criteria<\/a> inspired by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)<\/a>, and to their positive or negative sentiment.<\/p>\n

The next heatmap represents the sentiment calculated for each of the 50 criteria last week. The 50 criteria are embedded into 7 groups, following the structure of the GRI. The color indicates the ratio of positive news \/ total news.<\/p>\n

\"Ratio<\/a><\/p>\n

Ratio of positive news \/ total news for 50 criteria last week 0 % \"countryofactionBAR130610_70\"<\/a> 100 %
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Last week four criteria groups have shown a negative balance: Human Rights<\/strong> (Security Practices, Human Rights Policy), Labor<\/strong> (Employment, Trade Unions, Health & Safety), Society <\/strong>(Social Compliance, Corruption, Competition), and Product<\/strong> (Customer Privacy, Product Compliance, and Product Safety).<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Governance<\/strong> (Commitments to External Initiatives, Stakeholder Engagement), Economic<\/strong> (Social Sponsorship), and Environment<\/strong> (Energy, Emissions, Environmental Impacts of Products) all registered majorities of positives.<\/p>\n

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 data.<\/p>\n

\"Ratio<\/a><\/p>\n

Ratio of positive news \/ total news 0 %<\/span> \"countryofactionBAR130610_70\"<\/a> 100 %<\/span><\/p>\n

In terms of volume of information\u00c2\u00a0USA, UK, Japan, France, Canada, India, Australia, and Mexico were the major countries of action last week.<\/p>\n

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\n Last week statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Positives<\/td>\n1536<\/td>\nCompanies<\/td>\n382<\/td>\nCountries<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Negatives<\/td>\n1237<\/td>\nMostly praised<\/td>\n240<\/td>\nSources<\/td>\n514<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/td>\n2773<\/td>\nMostly criticized<\/td>\n130<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Positives \/ Total<\/td>\n55%<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

These figures show the activity in Covalence EthicalQuote database during the week of 15-21 June 2013.<\/span>
\n <\/b>
\nHistorical statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n\"HistoryChartRatio_130624\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Positives<\/td>\n329695<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Negatives<\/td>\n182285<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/td>\n511980<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sources<\/td>\n34348<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Start<\/td>\n01.01.2002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
End<\/td>\n21.06.2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Ford has been praised for cutting production emissions by 37% per vehicle since 2000, while HSBC (and Standard Chartered) officers have been caught in a Cobrapost sting operation, offering to launder money. This weekly review is produced using the EthicalQuote reputation index run by Covalence, which tracks 2800 companies worldwide. It gives a summary of…<\/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":[766],"tags":[313,116,26,765,61,73,22,65,128,377],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esg-news-review","tag-att","tag-bank-of-america","tag-bp","tag-finmeccanica","tag-ford","tag-hsbc","tag-microsoft","tag-nike","tag-nissan","tag-tokyo-electric-power","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959","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=7959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7959"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}