Feature Articles
ADVANCE Survey: Sustainable Value of European Industry
by the ADVANCE Project Team (click here for team listing)
'This study provides an essential tool for investment analysts and policy-makers to evaluate the relative financial returns on the use of environmental capital between sectors..... read moreMNC Codes
of Conduct: CSR or Corporate Governance?
by Krista Bondy, Dirk Matten and Jeremy Moon,
posted at the ICCSR website
ABSTRACT: 'It has been gernally assumed that Codes of Conduct are used primarily as a tool for CSR. This paper questions this assumption and suggests that codes are not primarily tools for CSR but tools of corporate governance more generally......read more
Columns
Expanding
the Ghetto
by Robert Rubinstein
In July I was invited to a large
financial conference in Paris. I was quite excited because there would
be over 1500 financial professionals attending. Hopefully, there would
be some interest in SRI. To my amazement and disappointment, few were.
The issue was not even on the program. It was like being thrown into a
bath of ice water - quite refreshing, I must say. A true
awakening of
how we still live in a ghetto. A growing ghetto, but it is still
a ghetto nonetheless.
While I was walking to the conference, I bumped into a leading economic journalist for the New York Times. He had no idea what I was talking about in terms of sustainable investment. When I responded to his inquiry as to my focus of work, he asked, "what is sustainable investment"? Trying to explain to him what it was and why it is relevant seemed to be a total, utter waste of time.
I had made a decision that in 2006, I should not be wasting my time on explaining the relevance of sustainable finance to people not interested......read more
While I was walking to the conference, I bumped into a leading economic journalist for the New York Times. He had no idea what I was talking about in terms of sustainable investment. When I responded to his inquiry as to my focus of work, he asked, "what is sustainable investment"? Trying to explain to him what it was and why it is relevant seemed to be a total, utter waste of time.
I had made a decision that in 2006, I should not be wasting my time on explaining the relevance of sustainable finance to people not interested......read more
Angel of the Month
You know it is easy to plant seeds in fertile, lush, rich soil. Everything takes root and grows. What is very hard is to plant a seed in a desert or rocky surface that is devoid of vegetation. Mary Jane McQuillen who started working at Citigroup Asset Management in 1996, has been working for years in preparing the grounds for SRI.....read more
News
Socially Responsible Investment
AP Funds Agree to Joint SRI Tender (Reg. Req'd)
Today's investors 'more ethical'
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Screening & Reporting
AP3 May Divest in Yahoo (Reg. Req'd)
SRI Analysts Find More Large U.S. Companies Reporting on Social and Environmental Issues
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility: What the Smart CEO Needs to Know
CEOs Embrace Corporate Social Responsibility With New Urgency
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Environmental disclosure 'sound corporate governance'
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction
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& Clean Technology
Expanding Funds for Cleantech
Why Buy Renewables?
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Miscellaneous
It's Nearly Lights Out for
PG&E's Solar Power Buybacks
Corporate Social Responsibility Cuts Both Ways
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Publications
The
Australian Wheat Board, its illicit conduct and the remedies for
Shareholders
By Bernard Murphy, Chairman of the Board of Maurice Blackburn
Cashman Pty Ltd'As the Royal Commission into the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) continues, what are the remedies for AWB shareholders? Bernard Murphy shares from his direct involvement in the case and outlines what may lay ahead. Bernard will futher expand on how investors in Australia are uniting to address corporate behaviour at the International SRI Conference in Sydney on 21&22 September 2006.' (PDF Download)
Quarter 1, 2006 NEX Review, New Energy Finance Public Market’s Briefing (PDF Download)
by New Energy Finance (http://www.newenergyfinance.com)In the last few trading days of the first quarter, the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index (NEX) broke through the 270 mark to close at 270.63 on 29 March 2006. Overall, the NEX gained 25.3% or 54.62 points in the first quarter of 2006. Increased investor appetite for clean energy stocks, rising oil and gas prices, and a series of high-profile public policy announcements all contributed to the positive performance.
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Discussion Paper (PDF Download)
by Tom Fox, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).“The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR), broadly defined as the overall contribution of a business to sustainable development (SD), should therefore be equally valid for large and small enterprises. But the focus in discussions on CSR tends to be on the largest companies; small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are often overlooked.”
Links to more new publications
Sustainability Reports
Coca-Cola HBC 2005 CSR
Holcim Ltd Sustainability Report 2004/2005
STMicroelectronics 2005 Corporate Responsibility Report
Sainsbury's 2006 Corporate Responsibility Report
Lafarge 2005 Sustainability Report
Royal Bank of Scotland Group 2005 CR Report
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to more sustainability
reports
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