{"id":8226,"date":"2013-08-19T09:56:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T08:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=8226"},"modified":"2013-08-23T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:15:20","slug":"esg-news-review-10-16-august-2013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2013\/08\/19\/esg-news-review-10-16-august-2013-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ESG News Review 10 \u2014 16 August 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toyota was the most praised company last week thanks to initiatives such as the donation of business expertise to non-profits, environmental education and scholarship programs.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Ryanair was the most criticized company, after it fired a pilot who expressed safety concerns in a Channel 4 documentary. Sanofi also generated many negative comments as Chinese authorities launched an investigation into the alleged corruption of doctors.<\/p>\n

The most praised<\/strong> companies last week were: Toyota Motor Corp., International Business Machines Corp., Ford Motor Co., PPG Industries Inc., and J Sainsbury PLC.<\/p>\n

And the most criticized<\/strong> were: Ryanair Holdings plc, Sanofi S.A., Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc., BP plc, BHP Billiton plc.<\/p>\n

The tag cloud below shows words found in news about these companies.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

This weekly review has been 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 Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), ethics and sustainability.<\/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

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

Ratio of positive news \/ total news for 50 criteria last week 0 % \"countryofactionBAR130610_70\"<\/a> 100 %
\n<\/span><\/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’s data.<\/p>\n

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

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

In terms of volume of information USA, China, Japan, UK, Brazil, Germany, Canada, and Ireland 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>\n767<\/td>\nCompanies<\/td>\n281<\/td>\nCountries<\/td>\n61<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Negatives<\/td>\n1531<\/td>\nMostly praised<\/td>\n138<\/td>\nSources<\/td>\n477<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/td>\n2298<\/td>\nMostly criticized<\/td>\n133<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Positives \/ Total<\/td>\n33%<\/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 10 – 16 August 2013.<\/span>
\n <\/b>
\nHistorical statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n\"HistoryChartRatio_130812\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Positives<\/td>\n338099<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Negatives<\/td>\n192075<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/td>\n530174<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sources<\/td>\n34856<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Start<\/td>\n01.01.2002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
End<\/td>\n16.08.2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Toyota was the most praised company last week thanks to initiatives such as the donation of business expertise to non-profits, environmental education and scholarship programs. On the other hand, Ryanair was the most criticized company, after it fired a pilot who expressed safety concerns in a Channel 4 documentary. Sanofi also generated many negative comments…<\/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":[44,26,61,39,367,654,702,694,377,96],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-8226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esg-news-review","tag-bhp-billiton","tag-bp","tag-ford","tag-ibm","tag-ppg-industries","tag-ryanair","tag-sainsburys","tag-sanofi","tag-tokyo-electric-power","tag-toyota","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226","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=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}