International thinktank the Ethisphere Institute has just revealed its annual rundown of the World’s Most Ethical Companies (WME), in which seven UK firms are included. The...
An online tool that enables businesses to better chart their sustainability journey and swiftly progress along it has entered its pilot stage. Responsible 100 is the product...
Sustainable investment specialists have rallied to defend ethical investing, after an article in The Telegraph yesterday questioned whether the strategy can be a profitable one. The...
With guides coming out from stalwarts of unsustainable investment, FT Adviser and New Model Adviser (part of Citywire), we have to ask if sustainable investment is gaining...
After the publication of R Edward Freeman’s Strategic management: a stakeholder approach in 1984, a divide was formed between those businesses that believed that long-term profits...
The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), a coalition of some of the world’s foremost values-driven banks, has released the Berlin declaration – a three-step...
Research by ethical bank Triodos suggests 16.5 million Britons have negative or indifferent feelings for their bank. According to Triodos, which is one Europe’s leading sustainable...
Supermarket chain Asda has announced it will start selling bananas from the Canary Islands instead of from the Caribbean and Central America, in an effort to...
The Observer Ethical Awards has launched its 2013 edition, looking for virtuous individuals or organisations that have excelled in the sustainability space over the past 12...
Sales of Fairtrade-certified goods grew by 19% to £1.57 billion in 2012, according to statistics released as part of Fairtrade Fortnight, which begins today. The figure...
It is a scandal that horsemeat has contaminated beef products across Europe. Indeed, it has completely replaced the beef in some cases. The responses from some...
After a year to forget in 2012, Barclays chief executive Antony Jenkins appears intent on restoring the bank’s Quaker principles of honesty, integrity and plain-dealing. Will...
Four high street banks are to be investigated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) over the mis-selling of interest rate hedging products (IRHPs) – financial instruments...
Barclays chief executive Antony Jenkins has sent a memo to the bank’s 140,000-strong global staff base, calling on employees to quit if they don’t agree with...
Hacked Off has published its own draft version of the Leveson bill in order to speed up implementation of Lord Justice Leveson’s press regulation recommendations. The...