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Common destiny, uncommon urgency
George Bernard Shaw famously quipped that England and America are two countries divided by a common language. Today sustainability should be uniting Europe and America in common endeavour, but is it really?

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Today's Daily CSR Media Briefing
The Corporate Citizenship Briefing team rounds up the key news stories from the daily and weekly press, newswires, websites and broadcast media. Headlines:
  • Turkey plans to restart work on controversial dam project
  • ExxonMobil continuing to fund climate sceptic groups, records show
  • Kmart offers discounts to jobless
  • India will reject greenhouse gas emission targets
  • The forecast for a thriving UK renewables sector


Environment
Turkey plans to restart work on controversial dam project Turkey yesterday announced plans to resume a controversial £1 billion dam project in the face of...

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Third Sector news and comment by Deepa Mirchandani & Larissa C...
News and commentary from the April/May edition of Corporate Citizenship Briefing, issue 105


Government Taskforce set up to help in building stronger communities A new UK Government Taskforce has been set up to look at innovative and practical ways that business and the third sector can work together to help those communiti...

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Consumers news and comment by Francesca Langdon
News and commentary from the April/May edition of Corporate Citizenship Briefing, issue 105


Sears sets up partnership to stock its stores with eco-friendly suits US retailer Sears is partnering with Teijin Fibers Limited and Bagir Group Limited to manufacture and sell men's suits made from a blend of wool and polyeste...

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Responsible Investment news and comment by Andrew Wilson
News and commentary from the April/May edition of Corporate Citizenship Briefing issue 105


Organisations certified against new international Voluntary Quality Standard Leading corporate sustainability research organisations from across Europe have been certified against a new international Voluntary Quality Standard (VQS)...

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CSR Strategy news and comment by Peter Truesdale
News and commentary from the April/May edition of Corporate Citizenship Briefing, issue 105


United Nations present its largest-ever corporate responsibility survey The United Nations’ largest-ever corporate responsibility survey was presented on 8 April at the launch of the UN Global Compact Annual Review 2008. Based on su...

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Climate Change news and comment by Kiku Loomis
News and commentary from the April/May edition of Corporate Citizenship Briefing, issue 105


Carbon Trust provides tools to make efffective low carbon business case The Carbon Trust announced that it has developed a how-to guide to help facilities managers, works engineers and environmental managers make an effective busine...

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Community and contributions news and comment by Chad Rogerson
News and commentary from the April/May edition of Corporate Citizenship Briefing, issue 105


Charities Aid Foundation reveals low awareness of payroll giving A Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) report revealed on 22 April that there is enormous potential to promote payroll giving at a time when charities need funds to deal wit...

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Employment and Diversity news
News from the April/May edition of Corporate Citizenship Briefing, issue 105


Female CSR practitioners earn less than men and fill lower postions The latest study on the CSR profession, produced by Ethical Performance, Acona and Acre Resources, shows that women in CSR are likely to earn less and fill lower-r...

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Human Rights and Business Ethics news
News from the April/May edition of Corporate Citizenship Briefing, issue 105


UN research draws links between business activity and human trafficking Although business activity can both perpetuate human trafficking and contribute to its eradication, most companies are unaware of the linkages. This is one of t...

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Labelling news and comment by Mitun Majumdar
News and commentary from the April/May edition of Corporate Citizenship Briefing, issue 105


Use Less Stuff report helps consumers make sustainable choices To help consumers make more informed decisions about products and packages, the Use Less Stuff (ULS) report, released on 1 April, has created a programme that allows com...

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Environment and Sustainability news and comment by Rupali Patni
News and commentary from the April/May edition of corporate citizenship Briefing, issue 105


McDonald’s agrees to reduce potato pesticides after shareholder pressure In response to shareholder concerns, McDonald’s Corporation – the largest potato buyer in the US – has agreed to survey its American supply chain and promote b...

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Recycling news
News and commentary from the April/May edition of Corporate Citizenship Briefing, issue 105


Plastic water bottles are turned into world’s first recycled mobile phone Motorola and Fido launched a new mobile phone which has a plastic housing made from recycled five-gallon water bottles. It is the world's first certified...

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Waste Management news and comment by Francesca Langdon
News and commentary from the February/March edition of Corporate Citizenship Briefing, issue 104


Evian and Volvic prove their green credentials Danone, the producer of Evian and Volvic, is tackling critics from environmental groups with a plan to recycle as many plastic water bottles as it uses in the UK. The aim is to increase...

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Speaking out

Going for a gold standard
The ISO 26000 Guidance Standard on Organisational Social Responsibility is about the reach the final draft stages. What’s it all about? Liza Lort-Philips explains.

The latest initiative to emerge from the stable of International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) products is the ISO 26000 Guidance Standard on Organisational Social Responsibility. Before you roll your eyes and groan ‘oh no, not yet another corporate responsibility standard...’, read on, for as standards go, it deserves a fair hearing, at least. Most...

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Transforming the NGO and forging cross-sectoral partnerships i...
Greater collaboration between private, public and civil society organizations has become increasingly important in recent years, characterized by complex partnership models and a greater focus on clear and measurable outcomes that straddle geographic boundaries.

Accenture Development Partnerships’ ongoing work with some of the largest non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has experienced how important it is for the private and public sectors to be aligned in their efforts. This need has been increased still further by the onset of global economic uncertainty, tighter financial constraints and increased competition for funding and support.

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Leadership development across the sectors
Is business missing a trick in its support for the voluntary sector? Andrew Wilson looks at the lessons to be learned.

We all know that the third sector – voluntary organisations and community groups – plays a vital role in regenerating and empowering communities. Action to address some of the most fundamental social and environmental challenges of recent years has come about as a direct result of the pioneering work of third sector groups. Business certainly recognises the...

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Liza Lort-Phillips on cause-related marketing
Here lies the important distinction between a brand that simply wants to do something responsible to create a warm and fuzzy effect, and a responsible brand. While consumers clearly like the former, they increasingly expect the latter.

Thirst Aid joins a growing list of brands competing for high profile cause-related marketing campaigns in the bottled water sector. In a year that has seen the industry vilified as ‘the next tobacco’ for its environmental impacts - both water and plastic - it comes as no surprise that another brand (following the likes of One, Belu and Volvic) has launched another initiative to ‘offset’...

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Corporate Citizenship: an NGO perspective
Penny Fowler charts the history of Oxfam’s involvement in CSR and outlines goals for the future

Corporate Citizenship: an NGO perspective Penny Fowler charts the history of Oxfam’s involvement in CSR and outlines goals for the future. In 1991, the year the first Corporate Citizenship Briefing was published, Oxfam directed relatively little attention to how business impacted on poverty. Yet Oxfam...

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Yohan Hill on Climate Change News
It’s no overstatement to say that markets have begun to internalise environmental issues and so the question is whether leading companies will simply wait to react to this change or seek out first mover advantages.

As ever more energetic and destructive hurricanes threaten oil production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico, render thousands homeless and create billions in property damage, from June to October our minds focus on how erratic weather patterns have become and what might happen when the effects of global warming really set in. Meanwhile businesses are clearly s...

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Peter Truesdale on the latest Employment & Diversity News
The stories are not diverse but uniform. Virtually without exception they report on women faring badly in the work place.

Employment and diversity, the heading for one of the News section, risks prosecution under the Trades Descriptions Act. The stories are not diverse but uniform. Virtually without exception they report on women faring badly in the work place. For the United Kingdom at least this is a phenomenon that is increasingly difficult to explain. Girls are doing better...

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