An insight to what Ethical Corporation subscribers will receive in our September edition.
In our Special Briefing we’ll be looking at clean technology and what green tech can achieve. The next part of the briefing will review how technology is helping companies reduce their resources use with case studies of IBM, BiOWiSH and Fuji Xerox Australia. The briefing then focuses on green energy generation and what the energy sourcing options are for big companies. The final instalment is on green transport; what are the best options to travel, the latest technological developments, benefits of rail vs road vs air travel and when, if at all, carbon offsetting works.
Our Feature piece will review how CR has failed BP. It will outline how the Gulf of Mexico oil spill shows that CR is not a nice add-on, it must be embedded throughout a company. The feature will; review BP’s recent crisis history and how the recent Gulf explosion is the latest in a catalogue of breaches, analyse how CR has failed and how this disaster is a wake-up call for companies who felt protected by their CR program.
September’s 10-page country briefing will present which corporate responsibility issues are big in Canada, analysing the main domestic challenges to business. It will start by outlining the history of CR in Canada and how it differs from elsewhere. It’ll then analyse the key sustainable business issues with case studies of some leading companies. Next the briefing considers the NGO and corporate viewpoint; the success of NGOs both international and domestic, which voluntary initiatives are most relevant and the role of business associations. The briefing finishes with an analysis of the government’s influence on sustainable business, how this affects corporate responsibility and which companies or authorities are more progressive.
Coming up in next month’s Strategy and Management section we present a case study on conflict diamonds and the rise of the Kimberley Process. The piece reviews; what the Kimberley Process is and why it was set up, how and why this is viewed as a success, what are the lessons learnt for other initiatives and what are the recent challenges for the Kimberley Process and whether Zimbabwe will be let back in. The second part of in the Strategy & Management section looks at remuneration related to CR metrics. Some of the key areas covered are; what specifically are the CR metrics that employees are being assessed against? What are the specific benefits for companies to include these? Can using CR metrics be affective for everyone? To whom should they be assigned and why? Companies we look at include: Akzo Nobel, Heineken, Novo Nordisk, ING, and Alliance Boots. There will also be an essay by David Grayson, Director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, examining how we can move towards sustainable capitalism.
Our EthicsWatch section considers whether the recent Australian prime minister switch was partly due to the departed Kevin Rudd tackling climate change and in doing so confronting the mining sector. The second part analyses how although Wal-Mart is doing good things with supply chains and their customers there is work to do on how their employees are treated. This is in light of Wal-Mart spending $1m+ fighting a $7k fine for negligence following an employee being trampled to death in November 2008. Next we delve into the G20 protests in Toronto and whether the protests are just anti-corporate, whether anti-globalisation is making a comeback, what’s special about the Black Bloc style protests and whether cities are beginning to avoid being hosts of G8/G20 meetings.
The fourth section in EthicsWatch considers low-emission aircraft and EADS recently launched all-electric aircraft, how solar powered planes are proving a possibility and whether we’re seeing a realistic future for air travel. Our final section highlights how a new Accenture survey suggests that top CEOs are taking sustainability more seriously and how sustainability is now regarded as a source of cost efficiencies. The article presents the report’s key findings and considers the challenges that CEOs face to embed sustainability in their businesses
And if all that wasn’t enough we have a review of the reports of Arcelor Mittal and J Sainsbury, published a Politics column by Peter Davis, Paul French’s China column plus topical and insightful pieces from Mallen Baker, Jon Entine and Peter Knight
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