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Sustainability Execs Should Look to ‘Mavericks and Outsiders’

January 7, 2014January 7, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Corporate sustainability professionals should reach out to “mavericks and outsiders” to find fixes to key sustainability challenges in 2014 such as food security, climate change and resource constraints, according to a Guardian Sustainable Business column. Oliver Balch writes that corporate sustainability is “too important to be left to corporates themselves.” ... Read more »

Firms ‘Must Close CSR Gap to Grow Business’

January 3, 2014January 6, 2014 by Kirsten Korosec

Companies that close the gap between consumer expectations and perceptions of their corporate social responsibility work can positively transform their brand, according to Craig Bida, executive vice president of cause branding and nonprofit marketing for Cone Communications. The public relations and marketing executive says closing the CSR gap — that ... Read more »

CR Reporting Adoption Rate Slows, Study Finds

November 20, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Corporate responsibility reports, once considered a niche activity only practiced by a few companies, has increased rapidly since 2000, but the rate of adoption has slowed in the past two years, according to a report released Tuesday. The slower growth is largely due to fewer new companies producing their first ... Read more »

Green Corporate Policies Tied to Brand Strength

July 29, 2013 by Leon Walker

Companies’ environmental policies and reporting practices are among the sustainability factors most linked to brand strength, according to research by corporate social responsibility database CSRHub. The research, part of a five part series, measures the relationship between 12 sustainability factors — individual components in CSRHub’s metric system — and brand ... Read more »

How to Leverage Social Media for Sustainability Reporting

June 3, 2013June 3, 2013 by Leon Walker

Just having a robust social media platform to communicate a company’s sustainability reporting is not enough; firms need to incorporate social media into an overall communications strategy and have top management plug the efforts to boost authenticity, says a Business of Social Responsibility article by Guy Morgan. Morgan is director of ... Read more »

CSR a ‘Business Requirement, Not Option’

May 23, 2013May 23, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Global consumers have clear and specific expectations for the role companies should play in addressing social and environmental issues with 93 percent wanting to see more of the products and services they use support corporate social responsibility efforts, according to a survey released this week. Companies that disregard these demands ... Read more »

Employees Take Corporate Sustainability Efforts Home, Study Says

April 4, 2013 by Leon Walker

Employees who participate in workplace sustainability programs are likely to promote sustainable practices at home, and encourage others to participate. And three out of four will make purchasing decisions based on a company’s environmentally-conscious practices, a new study finds. According to 2013 Gibbs & Soell, Sense & Sustainability Study, Perspectives ... Read more »

Tom’s of Maine Sustainability Report: Zero-Waste-to-Landfill Aim for 2020

March 18, 2013 by Leon Walker

Tom’s of Maine is aiming to send zero waste to landfill per ton of product made at its Maine manufacturing site by 2020, according to its newly launched “Goodness Report” web site. The site, a de facto sustainability report, features details on the toiletry company’s 2011 benchmarking along with 2015 ... Read more »

GRI ‘Among Top CSR’ Instruments

March 15, 2013 by Leon Walker

The Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines now rank among the most widely recognized corporate social responsibility instruments among large European companies, according to new research published by the European Commission. In a survey of the public CSR statements of 200 randomly selected large companies, the GRI Guidelines were referred to by ... Read more »

Nestlé Sustainability Report: 35% Direct GHG Emissions Reduction Targeted

March 14, 2013January 9, 2018 by Leon Walker

Nestlé has announced a goal of reducing its direct greenhouse gas emissions per metric ton of product by 35 percent compared to 2005 levels by 2015 amid a raft of targets in its latest sustainability report. But figures from earlier reports suggest that the company may already be on the ... Read more »

SAP to Launch Sustainability Report

March 14, 2013March 15, 2013 by Leon Walker

German software corporation SAP is to host a webinar to launch and introduce its first Integrated Annual Report, which combines the company’s sustainability and financial performance results. The webinar will take place on March 25, 2013, at 11.00am ET and will feature speakers including SAP chief sustainability officer Peter Graf, CSRwire’s editorial ... Read more »

Henkel Sustainability Report: Water Consumption Cut 2.5%

March 13, 2013March 13, 2013 by Leon Walker

Chemical manufacturing company Henkel reduced its water consumption by almost 2.5 percent and cut its wastewater production by over 3.75 percent year-on-year, according to the company’s latest sustainability report. In 2011, Henkel used 7.9 million m3 of water and produced 3.6 million m3 of wastewater. These metrics dropped to 7.7 ... Read more »

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