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What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?

What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? This video clip tries to give competent but also entertaining answers to this question. The video is part of series "in a little green bag" at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. more[...]

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Usefulness of Corporate Citizenship Concept - Jeremy Moon

Jeremy Moon is the Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility and the Director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School. In this clip, Professor Moon discusses the usefulness of Corporate Citizenship concept. more[...]

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Global Compact Launches Web Platform to Mobilize Business for Rio+20

New York, NY – January 23, 2012 – 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 the Rio+20 Secretariat, the UN System and the Global Compact Local Network Brazil, the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum aims to strengthen the business contribution to sustainable development globally – seeking to bring greater scale to responsible business practices, to advance and diffuse sustainable innovation, and to stimulate broader collaboration between companies, governments, civil society and the UN. more[...]

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Foresight - Migration and Global Environmental Change

The project Migration and Global Environmental Change examines how profound changes in environmental conditions such as flooding, drought and rising sea levels will influence and interact with patterns of global human migration over the next 50 years. Sir John Beddington, Professor Richard Black and Neil Adger explain what the final report concludes and what it means for the future of global migration. more[...]

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Davos Annual Meeting 2009 - The Global Compact and the Corporate Citizen

The Global Compact: Creating Sustainable Markets The UN Global Compact was launched at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 1999 and put forth the powerful idea that corporate engagement on global issues benefits both business and society over the long run. more[...]

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United Nations Global Compact Annual Review – Anniversary Edition

United Nations Global Compact (UNGC)

Takes stock of the efforts undertaken by business participants and other key stakeholders to advance the ten principles and development, as well as peace, responsible investment, business education and broader UN-business collaboration. Findings from the annual Global Compact Implementation Survey, completed by over 1,000 companies from 100 countries, are featured throughout. Special focus is given to the 10th anniversary of the Global Compact. more[...] login_required

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The Responsible Corporation in a Global Economy

Prof. Colin Crouch, Business School of Warwick University

No longer only the domain of corporate public relations, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has now become a serious concern for many firms and a major sphere of academic research. However, most strikingly, by encouraging corporations to play a role in economic governance, particularly at the global level, CSR also raises issues for political science, public policy, and the world of politics as a whole. more[...] login_required

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Succeed or Sink: Business sustainability under globalisation

Prof. Chris Rowley, Citiy University London - Cass Business School

Aimed at business strategists, policy makers, researchers and adult learners, this book has an Asian perspective on business sustainability and is about understanding how recent developments and future actions in one part of the world will have a global impact. The book magnifies the concept of so-called ‘globalisation’ and examines the topic of business sustainability from a broad and integrated approach to business: encapsulating people, prosperity and the planet. Furthermore, it acknowledges the contributions, challenges and potential of not only the big corporate houses, but also the smaller ones, in this situation. Chapters discuss the benefits organisations can attain with better governance, and social and environmental practices are also analysed. more[...] login_required

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Design for Sustainable Change: How Design and Designers Can Drive the Sustainability Agenda

Prof. Anne Chick, Lincoln University

Sustainability is an increasingly vital subject for all kinds of designers. Whether you are involved in industrial design, graphic design or architecture, Design for Sustainable Change clearly explains the key theories and debates surrounding sustainability to allow you to adapt and integrate them into your own working practices. more[...] login_required

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The Value of Improved Community Awareness

Sibel Bekler, AKSA

AKSA, a leading manufacturer of acrylic and carbon fibers in the world, has initiated a Community Advisory Panel comprised of about 45 representatives of municipal mayors, village elders, teachers, local authorities, and students selected from the villages in the vicinity of the facility. Since 2001, biannual or more frequent Community Advisory Panel meetings are held to assess and evaluate the coexistence of AKSA with the community, including issues of environmental, health, and safety performance of the facility as seen from the eyes of the public. more[...] login_required

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Sustaining Finance and Financing Sustainability in the Middle East

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Project one :In the light of its business excellence and recognition, Arab African International Bank decided to institutionalize the CSR building on its “Belief System “ and depending on a “Structural Approach”. This has produced the “We Owe it To Egypt” Foundation to be the national drive behind significant impact and sustainable development of health and education in Egypt. The Foundation’s main mission is: To pool patriotic resources and establish centers of excellence in health and education. Project two: The bank has adopted the Equator Principles as a regulatory framework for social and environmental impact assessment for projected finance that exceeds the 10 million dollars. more[...] login_required

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The UN Global Compact in the MENA Region

Matthias Stausberg, United Nations Global Compact

For a few years after the Global Compact’s launch in 2000, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remained uncharted territory for the initiative. This changed in 2003, when the first efforts were undertaken to promote the Global Compact in Egypt. A high-level launch took place in Cairo in February 2004, resulting in the participation of more than 50 companies, including many of Egypt’s leading corporations. more[...]

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The UN Global Compact in the MENA Region

Matthias Stausberg, United Nations Global Compact

For a few years after the Global Compact’s launch in 2000, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remained uncharted territory for the initiative. This changed in 2003, when the first efforts were undertaken to promote the Global Compact in Egypt. A high-level launch took place in Cairo in February 2004, resulting in the participation of more than 50 companies, including many of Egypt’s leading corporations. more[...] login_required

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Corporate Social Responsibility – A Philosophy of Life

María del Rosario García, Mutualista Pichincha
Soledad Burbano, Mutualista Pichincha

For Mutualista Pichincha, corporate social responsibility and the Ten Principles of the Global Compact go far beyond the realm of traditional institutional and professional behavior. They constitute a way of life and a new manner of doing things in all aspects of our entrepreneurship. They must become the engine that drives all our actions at work and at home; with our children, friends, and colleagues; on the streets as well as during public events and all of our daily activities. more[...] login_required

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Living Responsibility

Rainer Wend, Deutsche Post DHL

If one person forgets to switch off the light, it’s not the end of the world. But when thousands of employees agree to climate-protection measures, the effects can show a tremendously positive result. If only one customer requests a carbon-neutral transport, it’s not going to save the planet. However, when thousands of customers all over the world ask for eco-friendly services, it makes a big difference. Today, it is our employees and our customers who drive our corporate responsibility activities at Deutsche Post DHL. more[...] login_required

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