New ethical indices will exclude most FTSE firms
The majority of London’s blue chip firms will not be eligible for inclusion in a series of ethically correct stock market indices that are being developed by FTSE, the index compiler.
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FTSE develops standard for socially responsible investment
FTSE announces today an innovative new family of indices named FTSE4Good, designed to be a first step towards setting a global standard in the fast growing area of socially responsible investment (SRI). FTSE4Good aims to increase awareness and acceptance of SRI amongst the international business community, and will also generate significant funds for UNICEF.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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GRI Update January 2001
A new update from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), guidelines for sustainability reporting.
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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.
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Greener Multinationals Have Higher Market Value
A study tying high corporate environmental standards with greater market value adds to the growing body of evidence that poor environmental performance does not pay.
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Guidance for measuring and improving business performance and stakeholder relations SMEs
The United Nations Environment ProgrammeÃ??s Division of Technology, Industry and Environment and the Eco-Efficiency and Sustainable Enterprise Group at the Wuppertal Institute in Germany have jointly developed the Efficient Entrepreneur Calendar for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In combination with an
additional booklet, the Calendar provides assistance and guidance on how to measure and improve business performance and stakeholder relations in seven areas. On the basis of “You canÃ??t manage what you canÃ??t measure”, it introduces performance measures that are easy to assess and evaluate. The Calendar charts a “month-by-month” programme that ends with a simple Efficient Entrepreneur report which can be put in a global internet database.
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Companies (including Shell), NGO’s and Governments Develop Human Rights Principles
Oil and mining companies, NGO’s and the U.S. and U.K. Governments have jointly developed voluntary guidelines to reduce the risk human rights abuses when extractive industries operate abroad.
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Guidance on Economic Impact of Environmental Regs Issued
WASHINGTON, January 2, 2001 – Looking to create a system where all regulatory costs and benefits are treated on a consistent basis, the US Environmental Protection Agency has released its most far-reaching internal guidance on the economic impacts of environmental regulations and policies. Called, Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analyses, this framework will help federal policy makers who are required to develop environmental and health standards at the lowest cost.
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BSR releases new report comparing CSR-related standards
To help companies sort through the complex and growing number of
standards, guidelines, and codes designed to guide corporate
practices on issues ranging from human rights to the environment,
BSR has just published “A Comparison of Selected Corporate Social
Responsibility-Related Standards.”
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