Corporate Citizenship

Ratings  & Rankings: What’s going on? Should we care?
Corporate Citizenship hosted their Knowledge Series breakfast briefing yesterday with  associate director Peter Truesdale discusses the pros and cons of today’s ratings and rankings, and special guest speaker Tony Campos, senior executive for responsible investment at FTSE providing an insider’s view.
Click here to download Peter Truesdale’s presentation
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I am not obsessive about privacy. I am obsessive about being treated as a grown up. If a corporation wants to collect data about me they should ask me. If the data is that valuable they should pay me for it!
In a world where people flickr their holiday snaps when they are still on vacation, [...]

People just like them. You get the feeling you can trust them. They don’t need to work so hard to present a glowing, angelic image of morality and efficiency. This is because their slick designs and fun ‘cool-kid’ image has created a Halo Effect.
Behind the scenes, just in April it was reported by Greenpeace that [...]

Creating a successful Sustainability Plan
What is it? How do I get one? 
In recent years we have seen a flurry of Sustainability Plans, such as the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, Walmart’s Sustainability 360, and PespiCo’s Performance with a Purpose.  While each Sustainability Plan is unique to the company, it is clear that behind many of the [...]

Yes, Carrefour is flogging its bargain basement business.
Why?
Carrefour’s Chairman says it’s for strategic reasons. Nothing to do with raising money. Codswallop say employees and unions. Jobs are on the line and the protesters were out in force to vent their anger.
Protests seem as common as rainy British summers!
Women’s rights activists wearing fake beards stormed the [...]

Corporate Citizenship’s director and co-chair David Logan recently interviewed L’Oreal on their sustainable sourcing.
To view the interview, please visit Corporate Citizenship’s Vimeo channel: http://vimeo.com/25235387
Alternatively, visit the official L’Oreal site: http://www.sustainabledevelopment.loreal.com/production/viewpoints.asp#supply-chain

Healey’s first law of holes is: “When in a hole, stop digging”.
Eurostar wasn’t in a hole. Though its trains were (boom! boom!). Eurostar concluded if its customers didn’t get what carbon-offsetting was then it probably wasn’t worth doing.
Fair enough.
Whether customers will understand the replacement research that “will include emissions directly accounted for by the company, [...]

Do you remember Mr Casuabon? No? What! He was the barmy old party in George Eliot’s Middlemarch. He was so bonkers he was writing a book called The Key to All Mythologies. He pegged out before he completed it.
Turns out he has modern day successors.
CERES and Tellus are working away on the Global Initiative for [...]

Timberland has been bought by VF Corporation.
 But has the brand sold out?
Timberland is well known for its impressive sustainability credentials. The company consistently reduces carbon dioxide emissions. They produce four CSR reports a year. Even the logo is a tree.
According to Timberland CEO and President Jeffrey Swartz, Timberland’s reputation as a responsible and environmentally conscious [...]

Bribery and corruption top the list of current concerns in Russia. The country faces many issues that eager multinationals can help with: high unemployment, poverty and some serious environmental damage (not least the congestion in Moscow). But CSR in Russia is a landscape fraught with challenges.
At a recent event in Moscow, we heard first hand [...]