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02/08/2012
Online self-test for communication on Corporate Responsibility

Stakeholder relations are a central challenge for companies. The guidelines on communication in the international norm on Social Responsibility, ISO 26000, as well as the Stakeholder Engagement Standard AA1000, bring a paradigm shift for corporate communications.


Further News

02/02/2012
Global Sustainability Panel Calls for Transformation of Global Economy, Makes Push for Corporate Sustainability on Broad Scale


(New York) – Highlighting the role of the UN Global Compact in advancing a more sustainable global economy and calling for wider adoption of corporate sustainability principles, the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability today released its final report, titledResilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future



02/02/2012
On Occasion of LEAD Anniversary, UN Secretary-General Urges Business Leaders to Advance Corporate Sustainability


(Davos) – Marking the first anniversary of Global Compact LEAD, a platform for advanced corporate sustainability performance, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon challenged private sector leaders to accelerate uptake of global corporate sustainability practices in the months leading up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). The



02/02/2012
Leading Executives Meet With Secretary-General in Fresh Boost to Strengthen UN-Business Partnerships


(Davos) – Top executives of companies engaged in Global Compact LEAD, a platform for advanced corporate sustainability practices, met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and heads of UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes in Davos today to discuss ways of boosting both extent and impact of business



02/02/2012
Social Responsibility Director at Carter’s, Inc. (Atlanta, USA)


RESPONSIBILITIES Lead the Carters Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program to include the following initiatives: Drive the factory audit and corrective action process to ensure compliance with Carters CSR policy and minimize the risk for the organization through the management of various third-party vendors. Ensure that the Carters CSR



02/02/2012
East Asia Research Associate at UL Responsible Sourcing (Hong Kong, China)


UL-RS is a risk management consultancy specializing in responsible sourcing solutions. UL-RS is recognized as one of the world’s leading consultancies in supply chain labor standards, providing benchmark guidance to global Fortune 500 retailers and manufacturers. UL-RS has 30 offices worldwide dedicated to carrying out



01/26/2012
Business Encouraged by First Draft Rio+20 Outcome Document


BASD Advocates for Stronger Business Role and Financing Policies in First Zero Draft Review Meeting (New York) – Welcoming the prominent role of business in the latest draft outcome document for this June’s UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), Business Action for Sustainable Development 2012 (BASD) stressed



01/26/2012
UN Global Compact Joins Forces with the Fashion Industry to Launch First Sector-Specific Initiative


(Copenhagen) – Facing potentially devastating impacts of climate change and with attention on corporate sustainability soaring to new heights, the world needs innovators that can lead the push toward more sustainable solutions. The fashion industry has the potential to be one such innovator, working proactively to



01/26/2012
Global Compact Launches Web Platform to Mobilize Business for Rio+20


(New York) – The UN Global Compact today launched a new website – compact4rio.org– in support of the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum: Innovation & Collaboration for the Future We Want, to be held in Rio de Janeiro from 15-18 June 2012. Organized by the Global Compact in cooperation with



01/26/2012
Senior Director, Finance and Administration at The Synergos Institute (New York, USA)


About Synergos Institute The Synergos Institute is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of effective, sustainable and locally based solutions to poverty. Working with partners, Synergos’ mission is to mobilize resources and bridge social and economic divides to reduce poverty and increase equity around



01/22/2012
Technical Specialist I – Corporate Responsibility at AIAG


Overview: AIAG a not for profit organization supporting the global business supply chain has an opening for a Technical Specialist that will be responsible to facilitate project logistics such as meetings and conference calls for corporate responsibility initiatives. The successful candidate will support the Program Management



01/15/2012
Director, Social Responsibility at Peet’s Coffee & Team


Overall Responsibilities: Reporting to the Vice President, Organization Capability & Culture, the Director of Social Responsibility is the subject matter expert on corporate social responsibility, leading Peet’s long-term strategy and annual initiatives. This role represents Peet’s point of view on socially responsible business practices to a



01/15/2012
Associate (AE), Corporate Responsibility at APCO Worldwide (New York, USA)


APCO Worldwide, a global public affairs and strategic communications firm, has an immediate opportunity for an associate (account executive level) with two to four years of experience to join its New York corporate responsibility practice. Associates at APCO are high performing individual contributors who are on



01/04/2012
(Senior) Member Services Research Analyst at Boston College, Carroll School – Center for Corporate Citizenship (Boston, USA)


Job Description The Center provides knowledge and learning opportunities designed to help advance good corporate citizenship. The Member Services Research Analyst is responsible for working with the management team on the design, implementation, analysis, and delivery of the Center’s four signature research products; for implementing member



01/04/2012
Social Compliance Auditor at UL Responsible Sourcing (Los Angeles, USA)


UL Responsible Sourcing is recognized as one of the world’s leading responsible sourcing consultancies, providing guidance on supply chain labor standards to global Fortune 500 retailers and manufacturers. UL Responsible Sourcing has 30 offices worldwide dedicated to carrying out labor assessments that focus on child



12/19/2011
Secretary-General Asks Global Compact Board to Reconstitute, Address Public-Private Partnership Agenda


(New York) – Addressing the Global Compact Board on the occasion of its last meeting in 2011, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Board Members to intensify efforts to advance public-private partnerships in support of critical development challenges. Stressing the importance of next year’s UN




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Businesses & Consultants

06/29/2010
Siemens Sustainability Report 2009

NGOs

09/22/2010
General Assembly Reaffirms Critical Role of Private Sector in Advancing the Millennium Development Goals
Siemens published its new Sustainability Report 2009 here. The report makes it clear: For Siemens, sustainability is the path to profitable growth and long-term value creation. To achieve these goals, the company is intensifying its efforts in various areas: innovation,

csr-reporting.net closing a gap on sustainability information >>
The future of green >>
CR expert and author, Deborah Leipziger, to lead Human Rights Solutions Forum research in the Americas >>
The Concept and Business Case of Sustainability >>
Siemens Sustainability Report 2008 published >>
(New York) – At the conclusion of its High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG Summit), the UN General Assembly stressed the critical role of the private sector for development and called on businesses everywhere to contribute to

UN Secretary-General Urges Business to Embrace “Development Compact” for the Millennium Development Goals >>
CEO Water Mandate Convenes Special Session in Stockholm >>
Emerging Markets Take the Lead in Promoting Sustainable Stock Exchanges >>
Governments Renew Support for the Global Compact >>
Global Compact Encourages Business Contribution to Humanitarian Efforts in Pakistan >>


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Business Councils

09/22/2009
Report Urges New Approach to Valuing Businesses

Barcelona, 22 Sept – For many years there have been inconclusive attempts to prove that improved environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance positively affects overall business performance. Now a new report from a European research team proposes that companies

Hewitt Best Employers in Canada Study 2010 >>
How aware do you live your life? >>
CSR EMERGING AS A GOVERNANCE ISSUE FOR BOARDS >>
EABIS Annual Colloquium – CR and Sustainability: Leadership and Organisational Change >>
BSR 2006 Conference >>


Journals

12/09/2010
New Issue of Business & Society Review (115/4)



Events

06/18/2010
Congress on Experiential Learning

The recent issue of Business & Society Review (115/4) contains: The World Guide to CSR: A Country-by-Country Analysis of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility - Edited by Wayne Visser and Nick Tolhurst, by Moskowitz, M. , in: Business & Society Review, volume

New issue of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship (volume 38) >>
New Issue of Business Ethics Quarterly (20/4) >>
Call for Papers: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: EUROPEAN AND TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVES >>
New issue of Business & Society Review (volume 115/3) >>
Global Standards: Between Regulation, Normativity, and Rhetoric (Call for Papers) >>
How does today’s management education use experiential learning to improve management development and executive education? This will be the most important though not only question addressed by the Congress on Experiential Learning organised by EABIS on 25/26 November 2010; supported

Workshop: Academy of Management Meeting in Montreal >>
Workshop on CSR Regulation and Global Governance >>
Symposium: “The Future of Economics and Management” >>
Ethics in Crisis: A Call for Alternatives (EBEN Conference) >>
PRME/CBS International Conference on “Responsible Management Education: Sustainable Leadership in the Era of Climate Change” >>



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Newsflash

12/09/2010
Wikileaks, Credit-Card Companies, and Complicity
I was interviewed last night on CBC TV’s “The Lang & O’Leary Exchange” about Mastercard and Visa’s decision to stop

12/07/2010
Is too much transparency a bad thing?
It’s been quite a week or so for transparency. The incendiary WikiLeaks release of almost a quarter of a million

12/06/2010
Four Myths About Business Ethics
Here are four important myths about business ethics. There are surely many myths about business ethics, but these 4 in

11/26/2010
Intellectual Property and the Chilean Miners
Last month I posted about some Ethical Issues for the Chilean Miners. There, I pondered the moral force of the

11/26/2010
Price of tap water x 2000 + plastic bottles + manufactured demand = The Story of Bottled Water
We've been meaning to write something on Annie Leonard's "Story of Stuff" online phenomenon for some time. But then we


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02/11/2012
ESC: Zwangsräumungen für das Musik-Spektakel
Von Elman Mamedov Baku (afp) - Unter einer riesigen aserbaidschanischen Fahne entsteht derzeit in der Hauptstadt Baku eine hochmoderne Konzerthalle direkt am Kaspischen Meer. Dort soll im Mai der Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) über die Bühne gehen, den der frühere Sowjetstaat mit dem Gesangsduo Ell und Nikki im vergangenen Jahr in

02/11/2012
Vor allem junge Leute kaufen ausschließlich Bioprodukte
Berlin (afp) - Vor allem junge Menschen kaufen gerne und oft Bioprodukte: In der am Freitag vom Bundesverbraucherministerium veröffentlichten jährlichen "Ökobarometer"-Umfrage sagten 71 Prozent aller Befragten unter 30 Jahren, sie kauften Ökowaren. 16 Prozent von ihnen gaben an, ausschließlich oder häufig zu Bioprodukten zu greifen, 55 Prozent von ihnen gelegentlich.

02/10/2012
USA genehmigen erste Atomreaktoren seit Unfall von Three Mile Island
Washington (afp) - Grünes Licht für die ersten neuen Atomreaktoren in den USA seit Jahrzehnten: Die Atomaufsichtsbehörde NRC erteilte am Donnerstag trotz der abweichenden Meinung ihres Leiters die Genehmigung für den Bau von zwei Reaktoren im Bundesstaat Georgia. Die beiden 1100-Megawatt-Blöcke sollen auf dem Gelände des Atomkraftwerks Vogtle des Energiekonzerns

02/10/2012
Studie: Mindestens 1300 Tote in Frankreich durch Diabetes-Mittel
Paris (afp) - Mindestens 1300 Menschen sollen in Frankreich zwischen 1976 und 2009 durch das umstrittene Diabetes-Medikament Mediator gestorben sein. Das ergab die erste wissenschaftliche Untersuchung zu den Opfern des Arzneimittels, die am Freitag in der Fachzeitschrift "Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety" erscheint. Mehr als 3000 Patienten wurden im selben Zeitraum

02/09/2012
Argumentativer Kompass für kommunale Nachhaltigkeit
Berlin/München (csr-news) > Für kommunale Entscheidungsträger rückt das Thema Nachhaltigkeit zunehmend auf die tägliche Agenda. Oftmals herrscht aber noch große Unsicherheit wie auf die Herausforderungen zu reagieren ist. Von der Beratungsgesellschaft IFOK wurde nun in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Umweltbundesamt ein ausführlicher Ratgeber für Kommunen veröffentlicht. Die Broschüre möchte Kommunen Argumente an

02/09/2012
VolkswagenStiftung unterstützt Forschungen zum “arabischen Frühling”
Bochum/Hannover (csr-news) - Den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften in arabischen Ländern wird oft ein Mangel an akademischer Freiheit nachgesagt. Wie sieht es damit in Ägypten und dem Libanon aus? Welchen Einfluss nehmen die aktuellen politischen Umbrüche auf die Arbeit an den Universitäten? Diesen Fragen wird ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt der Ruhr-Universität Bochum und

02/09/2012
Produzenten in Schwellenländern zur Energieeffizienz helfen: ein Gespräch über „CPI2“
Hamburg/Köln (csr-news) - Eine Klimaschutzinitiative mit dem Titel „Carbon Performance Improvement Initiative“ (CPI2) haben acht deutsche Handels- und Markenunternehmen gestartet. „Schirmherr“ ist der Außenhandelsverband AVE, das Bundesumweltministerium unterstützt die Initiative. Die Unternehmen wollen in ihrer weltweiten Lieferkette jährlich mehrere Millionen Tonnen CO2 einzusparen. Erreicht werden soll dies durch die Unterstützung

02/09/2012
Tschechische Reiseagentur bietet Korruptionstourismus an
Prag (afp) - Eine tschechische Reiseagentur will Ausflüge zu den Orten der spektakulärsten Korruptionsaffären des Landes anbieten. Die Firma CorruptTour werde unter anderem den Besuch einer prächtigen Lobbyisten-Villa oder die Besichtigung einer nach explodierten Kosten brachliegenden Tunnel-Baustelle ins Programm nehmen, sagte Gründer Petr Sourek. Auch die Häuser von Geschäftsmännern, die




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