Archive for October, 2008
Reporting in 2008
KPMG has published on October, 27 its International Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting. The 2008 survey was conducted in 22 countries and with more than 2200 businesses around the world. The sample has included the Global Fortune (G250) and the 100 largest companies by revenue (N100) in 22 countries.
One of the most significant findings of [...]
Doing the right thing
Moving from broad regulatory issues to individual cases.Actually, this is an example of providing alternatives in the cases of regulatory failures.
The post was written together with mr. Lukman Kadry, a volunteer of AcroGhana. I do not know how many of these objectives will be met but this is an example of trying to do the [...]
SEC’s search for better disclosure
In June, SEC’s Chairman Christopher Cox lauched the “21st Century Disclosure Initiative.” The Initiative goal is to review the existing disclosure system, its objectives and to try to propose measures in order to improve the disclosure system with modern technology and practices.
The SEC asked for public comment and the deadline for submitting them was October, [...]
GRI financial services sector supplement was published
A short but very actual notice.
After a 5 year process, the Financial Services Sector Supplement (FSSS) is now finalized.At this moments of financial crisis, disclosure standards in the financial services sector are more than welcomed.
The Financial Services Sector Supplement was developed in several stages, the development of social
indicators, environmental indicators, and then the merging of these [...]
International Regulatory Reform Conference
The International Regulatory Reform Conference is organized by the Bertelsmann Foundation in Berlin between 16-18 of November.
Even though it is not an event dedicated to CSR, it touches very important regulatory issues which are relevant to the CSR debate, too.
The aim of the conference is:
1.To bring together leading experts on regulation and regulatory quality
2. To [...]
The future of CSR
I have read a couple of days ago a recent article, “Is CSR failing?” by Wayne Visser posted on CSRinternational.
He is a CSR supporter but he emphasizes that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has failed to reduce social “bads” like poverty, human rights abuses or environmental degradation and argues that CSR needs to evolve exactly like [...]
Covalence Ethical Ranking
Covalence has published today its quaterly ethical reputation ranking.
Twenty multinational companies are analyzed in ten sectors: automobiles, banks, chemicals, entertainment, food&beverage, mining&metals, oil&gas, pharmaceuticals, retailers, technology hardware.
The indicators used are: the best ethical quote score, the best ethical progress and the best reported performance. The first two indicators are given by confronting the positive and [...]
A critique of CSR. Do you agree?
CSR will not make the world a better place but it will actually do more harm to it, says David Henderson, in a speech at the Instituto Bruno Leoni. Henderson, former chief economist of the OECD, thinks that CSR will not help answering to the challenges associated with globalization and it will not bring benefits [...]
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I will develop today the “Green Jobs” topic by presenting the main findings of the report “Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable Low-Carbon World” and some reflections of the partners of the Green Jobs initiative which were not included in the report. I will focus mainly on the policy recommendations made by the [...]
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