Supply Chains

Corporate values: Keep hold of hard-won business responsibility

Mallen Baker, (Jan 27, 2011)

Making ethical choices is harder in tough economic times, but we still need to make them, says Mallen Baker

CEOs from TNT, Panasonic, PepsiCo, Innocent Drinks, Kraft UK, Johnson Matthey, Seventh Generation and Chairman from Alliance-Boots discuss CSR best practice at May summit in London

EC Newsdesk, (Jan 26, 2011)

CEOs from some of the world’s highest performing responsible businesses will gather in London in May to discuss sustainability and CSR strategy at Europe’s leading summit on corporate responsibility.

View from the Middle: Aid and development – The evolving role of business

EC Newsdesk, (Jan 24, 2011)

Welcome to the first of a regular series of articles that are going to look at aid, development, natural and man-made emergencies and the role in all of this of companies and the private sector

Anglo American, Rio Tinto, Chevron, Barrick Gold, ArcelorMittal, Statoil and Newmont converge on London to discuss sustainability for extractives industries at April conference

EC Newsdesk, (Jan 19, 2011)

CSR professionals from the world’s biggest mining, steel and oil & gas companies will arrive in London on the 5th – 6th April to debate and discuss the best methods of implementing their social and environmental policies in locations across the globe.

Developing a sustainable supply chain

EC Newsdesk, (Dec 8, 2010)

In our recently published Corporate Focus supplement, sponsored by Cargill, we look at how Truvia has developed a new natural sweetener that has a sustainable supply chain.

Conflict minerals: time to dig deeper

Alex Bescoby, (Dec 6, 2010)

The new US laws to purge supply chains of conflict minerals may only scratch the surface of the problem, says Alex Bescoby

Chile’s mines: Rescue that should never have been needed

Eric Marx, (Dec 3, 2010)

The high-profile rescue has focused attention on Chile’s many small and dangerous mines

Unilever: Sustainable living planned

Oliver Balch, (Dec 3, 2010)

Unilever’s new sustainability plan is wide in its ambition and scope

How to break in a new CEO

Mallen Baker, (Nov 12, 2010)

When a new boss arrives, there is a window of responsible business opportunity

Carbon accountability: the first objective for COP16?

EC Newsdesk, (Nov 4, 2010)

Ivor John argues that transparent whole life-cycle carbon accounting is how countries and individual organisations can come to terms with their carbon footprint

Rescued miners vs Deepwater Horizon: responsible business the loser

EC Newsdesk, (Nov 3, 2010)

Adrien Lopez contrasts the San Jose mine rescue and the Deepwater Horizon disaster

Carbon pricing: will the UK government take the floor?

EC Newsdesk, (Nov 3, 2010)

Jane Burston explores the impact a carbon floor price may have

Letter: Chinese supply chains

Paul French, (Nov 1, 2010)

Adidas’s William Anderson responds to Paul French’s September column

China column: China’s secret children

Paul French, (Nov 1, 2010)

China editor Paul French says many Chinese children will not be registered in the coming census as they don’t legally exist

Politics column: How to retain a long arm of the law

Peter Davis Politics Editor, (Nov 1, 2010)

The US alien tort ruling is a blow for campaigners, but other laws may take its place, says Peter Davis, politics editor

CRWatch, a round up of recent business sustainability news - November 2010

Jeni Bauser Yaghoubi, (Nov 1, 2010)

A greener White House, cutting water use in Wal-Mart’s Chinese supply chains and America’s eco car awards

China syndrome: Corporate social schizophrenia

Jon Entine, (Oct 27, 2010)

China claims to be a world innovator in corporate responsibility. Just don’t drink the water or visit a manufacturing plant, warns Jon Entine

Ethics training: Protect more than reputation

Simon Webley, (Oct 12, 2010)

Companies that train employees how to implement ethics codes outperform their peers, argues Simon Webley

Letter from America: Who’s going to carry the can?

Peter Knight, (Oct 1, 2010)

What to do about billions of paper coffee cups is a burning issue – with at least one simple and obvious solution, says Peter Knight

CRWatch, a round up of recent business sustainability news - October 2010

Jeni Bauser Yaghoubi, (Oct 1, 2010)

Burger King reviews palm oil sourcing, Nestlé’s better cuppa, and European companies caught behaving badly in the US

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