• Requirements along the Supply Chain

    Bernhard Schwager
    Axel Zerinius
    Bosch Group

    To strike a balance between economic, social, and ecological interests, Bosch must take its entire value-added chain into account. This is why the global provider of technology and services actively involves its suppliers in its sustainability activities, both in regulatory and operational terms. Together with its suppliers, the company aims for continuous improvement.  more[...]

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  • Projects

    Dirk Grosche
    Hochtief

    It is among the most important tasks of a company to create a work environment in which the employees are – and remain – healthy, and in which workplace-related illnesses and accidents are prevented to the extent possible. For the international construction group HOCHTIEF, the issue has top priority and is consistently pursued and managed under the joint responsibility of all parties concerned.  more[...]

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  • MOSTADAM: More Than Just Finance

    Perihan Abdel Ghaly, Arab African International Bank
    Maha Hasebou, Arab African International Bank
    Arab African International Bank

    Since 2004, privatization and economic reforms in Egypt, especially in the banking sector, have spurred active engagement and responsibility toward communities and in the country at large. The banking sector’s current capacity and capital remain significant when comparing its role in social and environment development. The Arab African International Bank (AAIB)’s experience offers a successful trendsetting model concerning the role of banks in affecting the growth of new industries and the economy at large.  more[...]

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  • Customer Dialog Drives Sustainable Product Innovations

    Yvonne Benkert, MAN SE
    MAN SE

    Stakeholders present companies with very different challenges. The MAN Group responds by inviting stakeholders to communicate their expectations and opinions. To this end, MAN conducts systemized surveys every year and discusses specific issues with selected stakeholders. As customers represent a very important stakeholder group for MAN and also have a major influence on whether efficient products are used, they are central to our corporate responsibility activities. In 2012 we further intensified our dialog with customers at the two leading trade fairs for our industry: IAA Commercial Vehicles and the SMM maritime trade fair.  more[...]

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  • Sustainable Project in “27 de Octubre” Community of Chimbote

    Francesca Carnesella, Camposol and Copeinca
    Copeinca

    By mid-2011, COPEINCA made contact with the Stromme Foundation and the NGO Tierra de Niños with the aim of evaluating sustainability projects with surrounding communities. The company wanted to contribute toward the development of the surrounding families near the Chimbote industrial plant. They began working together in order to define a meaningful strategy for the future of the “27 de Octubre” residents.  more[...]

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  • Green Business Assessment - The link between environmental and company performance

    Philip Thormark, ÅF AB
    André Månsson, Lund University

    Over the years the general attitude towards environmental management has shifted. From a reactive stance, in which accidents and release of pollutions were at the center stage, to a proactive one in which environmental performance is sometimes regarded as a vital factor for the success of the company. Better environmental performance may increase the competitive advantage of a company in numerous ways.  more[...]

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  • Conflict Minerals

    Resource conflict is one of several destabilizing phenomena commonly cited as defining many of the extractive economies of the global south. Our Tutorial discusses all aspects of the issue with a special focus on US laws, SEC and Dodd-Frank Act regulations.  more[...]

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  • New York Stock Exchange Listing Standards and Corporate Social Responsibility

    Prof. Celia Taylor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law

    Although attention to corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues is wide-spread in the United States (US), laws regarding compliance with CSR standards and disclosure of CSR practices in the US lag behind that of other countries. Countries such as Sweden, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, the UK and others have mandated the disclosure of corporate social responsibility data.[1]  more[...]

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  • Evidence-based Standards for Reporting on Materiality

    Elaine Cohen, Beyond Business Ltd

    Materiality assessment concerning corporate sustainability disclosures is still difficult. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) offers evidence-based standards for reporting on materiality. “The SASB aims to become the future of both financial and sustainability disclosure, providing guidance for the missing link through a set of material indicators by sector and voluntary disclosure, which no self-respecting voluntary corporate reporter will be able to avoid referencing and which no 'reasonable investor' will be willing to overlook," writes Elaine Cohen in CSRWire.  more[...]

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    Elaine Cohen, Beyond Business Ltd 
     
  • Evidence-based Standards for Reporting on Materiality

    Elaine Cohen, Beyond Business Ltd

    Materiality assessment concerning corporate sustainability disclosures is still difficult. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) offers evidence-based standards for reporting on materiality. “The SASB aims to become the future of both financial and sustainability disclosure, providing guidance for the missing link through a set of material indicators by sector and voluntary disclosure, which no self-respecting voluntary corporate reporter will be able to avoid referencing and which no 'reasonable investor' will be willing to overlook," writes Elaine Cohen in CSRWire.  more[...]

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    Elaine Cohen, Beyond Business Ltd 
     
  • ISO 26000 - so what?

    Maria Lazarte, ISO

    As the ISO 26000 guidance standard on social responsibility reaches its second anniversary, ISO Secretary-General, Rob Steele, challenged participants at a two-day open forum in Geneva, Switzerland, to consider what has been done so far, and where the road should take us next, by asking, "So what?"  more[...]  login_required

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    Maria Lazarte, ISO 
     
  • Developing countries exchange ISO 26000 experience at ISO workshop

    International Organization for Standardization

    A two-day workshop on the experience of developing countries in implementing and promoting the ISO 26000 guidance standard on social responsibility opened on 5 November 2012, in Geneva, Switzerland. Some 120 participants from about 70 countries are exchanging their experience on ISO 26000:2010, Guidance on social responsibility. The workshop is organized by the Development and Training Services of ISO.  more[...]  login_required

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  • The Private Sector Solutions (Interview Film With Claus Stig Pedersen)

    Lisbet Bræmer-Jensen, Grundfos & ‘Act NOW‘

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    Lisbet Bræmer-Jensen, Grundfos & ‘Act NOW‘ 
     
 
 
 
 

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