Initiative will Focus on Resource Efficiency Measures to Achieve Sustainable Urban Development INDIACSR News Network Rio de Janeiro: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners have unveiled a new initiative that aims to reduce pollution levels, improve resource efficiency and reduce infrastructure costs in cities across the world. Launched today at the Rio+20 summit [...]
INDIACSR News Network MUMBAI: India’s first Independent Public Relations firm Good Relations India has added two new verticals, CSR Advisory and CSR Auditing, with which it hopes to redefine the way clients approach the function. The announcement comes at a time when the parliamentary panel has recommended having a clause in the Companies Bill [...]
INDIACSR News Network RIO de Janeiro: The world’s fixation on economic growth ignores a rapid and largely irreversible depletion of natural resources that will seriously harm future generations, according to a report which today unveiled a new indicator aimed at encouraging sustainability – the Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI). The IWI, which looks beyond the traditional [...]
Seminar on “CSR of Mining & Power” Venue : Hotel Shreshtha, Raigarh (Chhattisgarh) Date: July 20, 2012 (9 am to 6:00 pm) For brochure please send a request to rusenk@indiacsr.in (99810 99555). Visit us www.seminar.indiacsr.in NEW DELHI: The new Companies Bill that rewrites the 56-year old law incorporating social responsibility obligations on corporates [...]
CSE’s Green Rating Project had warned Vizag Steel to shore up its safety measures INDIACSR NEWS Network NEW DELHI: The recent tragedy at Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (Vizag Steel), where 16 people died in the worst ever accident in a steel plant in India, was waiting to happen, says Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). In [...]
WASHINGTON: A federal jury on Friday (15 June 2012) convicted Rajat Gupta, the Indian-American business icon who strode the US corporate world and moved with the country’s high and mighty, of insider trading in a case that illustrated greed, guts, and glory in America’s most successful immigrant community. Gupta, 63, a former director of Goldman [...]
“Corporate responsibility and governance need to be principle-based, rather than based on rules and frameworks that become a tick-box exercise and may invite evasion” Chandrajit Banerjee Director General, Confederation of India Industry (CII) The ministry of corporate affairs had released the National Voluntary Guidelines on Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibilities of Business in July last [...]
The guidelines can ensure sustainable corporate commitment to society but insisting on compulsory compliance is tricky Rijit Sengupta Director, Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) International “The guidelines urge firms to integrate responsible business conduct within its core business model, rather than treating the issue peripherally, as a mere PR function” Notwithstanding the Satyam scandal, [...]
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: It has reported that a major portion of the work on a national policy on corporate governance is over, according to Mr Nesar Ahmed, president, the Institute for Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). “I would say 60 to 70 per cent of the work is over,” Mr Ahmed, who was here on a visit, [...]
Rio+20 Opportunity to Deliver Transformational Policies to Fast Track Sustainability Across Corporate Sector INDIACSR News Network RIO de Geneiro: Businesses making the transition towards the green economy are already reaping rewards worth hundreds of millions of dollars in savings and high return on investment, while benefiting consumers, communities and the environment, says a new report [...]
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