Regering moet actieve rol spelen bij verantwoord ondernemen

Vandaag om 16.00 uur bieden vierendertig maatschappelijke organisaties het manifest ‘Profijt van principes’ in Den Haag aan staatssecretaris Ybema van Economische Zaken aan. Zij pleiten voor een actieve rol van de overheid bij maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen in het buitenland. Aanleiding is het binnenkort te verwachten standpunt van de regering over maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen, waarover de Sociaal Economische Raad (SER) onlangs een advies heeft uitgebracht. ... lees meer

Koppeling tussen financieel rendement en ecologische en sociale prestaties van een onderneming

Oratie mw.prof.dr. J.M. Cramer, hoogleraar Milieumanagement in organisaties Duurzaam ondernemen is een geleidelijk opkomende trend. Het weerspiegelt de verandering in denken binnen onze samenleving over de maatschappelijke verantwoordelijkheid van ondernemingen. Meer dan voorheen wordt van ondernemingen verwacht dat zij expliciet verantwoording afleggen over hun bedrijfsresultaten, niet alleen in financiële zin, maar ook in sociale en ecologische zin. ... lees meer

New UN report finds positive link between corporate sustainable development programmes and financial success

There is a real, positive pay-off from corporate triple bottom line programmes, according to SustainAbility’s new report for the United Nations. The report, Buried Treasure: Uncovering the business case for corporate sustainability, is based on international research and finds that a strategic focus on sustainable development is both significantly and positively aligned with mainstream business success. ... lees meer

Oekom Measures Food Industry’s Appetite for Corporate Social Responsibility

German research firm publishes a study on the social and environmental performance of international food corporations. Consumer confidence in the food industry has been shaken by the controversy over genetically modified organisms (GMOs), as well as by scares such as e-coli poisoning and mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy). Oekom Research AG, a corporate social research firm based in Munich, Germany, recently analyzed the social and environmental performance of some of the major multinational producers. While the wide range of scores on various criteria were not surprising, the lower-than-average overall score suggests the industry can do better. ... lees meer

Groups Press Corporations to Disclose Enviro Risks

An environmental think tank and a socially responsible investment firm have joined forces to press corporations on reporting environmental risks. And they’ve called on the Securities and Exchange Commission for muscle. The World Resources Institute and Calvert called on corporate managers recently to fully comply with government requirements on reporting their environmental risks, and asked the SEC to strengthen its enforcement of rules intended to protect investors. ... lees meer

Corporate Environmental Research Now Available to Individual Investors

Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc. and Socialfunds.com have announced a joint marketing agreement to provide individual investors with access to corporate environmental performance research previously available only to the institutional marketplace. The research reports, now offered on www.socialfunds.com, utilize Innovest’s unique methodology of correlating corporate environmental performance with stock market performance. ... lees meer