I’m fighting dementia with chocolate and red wine
I’m gratified to learn from BBC Radio 5 Live’s excellent dementia feature this lunchtime that consuming chocolate and red wine can help protect you against developing that hideous disease. So I’m
Month: February 2013
The rising cost of climate change – NationalJournal.com
While policymakers fiddle, the threat of economic harm posed by rising sea levels, devastating storms and drought is growing every day, writes Coral Davenport. A 2012 study by the Madrid-based
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Financial institutions ‘playing CSR catch-up’
In the second CSR Breakfast roundtable, hosted by Ethical Performance and London-based consultancy Lumina, an invited group of senior finance industry CSR professionals discussed the ethical issues facing their brands.
The old news agenda and today’s drivers of change
Reading through the blizzard of reports and utterances from the great CSR news community is not one of the most positive experiences right now. There are so many stories knocking
Living wage: ethics and economics converge
No global supply chains consistently pay a living wage. While food prices and energy costs escalate, the issue of a living wage has become more important – and challenging –
Business and the witness to unwelcome truths
In March 2008, Richard Falk was appointed UN special rapporteur for human rights in the Palestinian territories. He is professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and visiting distinguished
A big conversation with the chattering classes
The internet and its burgeoning social networks has given consumers and communities unprecedented power to publish and organise action. But is it just a passing fad? As you read this,
The state is redrawing its battle lines with business
Everywhere, there are signs that ‘the state’ is tightening the screw on companies which, in its collective view, are acting unethically, or generally against its interests or that of wider
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A duty of business: to protect human rights
Harvard professor John Ruggie has been toiling on behalf of the UN since 2005 to devise a framework for ways in which businesses should manage their interactions with the lives
Shareholder engagement driving corporate change
Margaret Thatcher loved to talk up the shareholder democracy – particularly when she was selling off one of the UK’s publicly-owned industries. Which was, as it turned out, quite often.