Organizations Promoting Corporate
Ethical, Social & Environmental Responsibility
Suggested websites are denoted with an asterisk (*).
*Accountability-Central (U.S.A.)
"In A-C the editors focus on news, commentary, research, trends, and
actions of key players shaping "accountability" and the impact on
individuals, business organizations, public agencies and social
institutions."
Avanzi (Italy)
Avanzi assists organizations in economic,
environmental and social sustainability.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (U.K. & U.S.A.)
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre tracks the
positive and negative impacts of over 4,000 companies
worldwide. It claims to be the world's leading
independent resource on the subject.
*Business
for Social Responsibility (U.S.A.)
"Business for Social Responsibility is a global organization that helps member companies achieve success
in ways that respect ethical values, people, communities and the
environment."
Business in the
Community (U.K.)
"Business in the Community mobilises business for good. We work with
business to build a sustainable future for people and planet."
*Canadian Business for Social
Responsibility (Can.)
The Canadian Business for Social Responsibility provides a leading voice for corporate
social responsibility.
Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate
Responsibility (Can.)
Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility is dedicated to promoting an ethical
orientation and culture in Canadian companies.
*CBERN (Can.)
"The Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN) was developed
through a
SSHRC project funded in 2004... The team aims to create a 'website
of websites' to link existing cross-sectoral Canadian resources in
business ethics."
Center for
Corporate Policy (U.S.A.)
"Center for Corporate Policy... working to curb cororate abuses and make corporations publicly
accountable."
Centre for
Excellence in CSR (Can.)
"The Centre for Excellence on Corporate Social Responsibility is
being developed by CIM as one of the four pillars of the Canadian
government's action plan on CSR. Over the coming year, this site will
become the hub of knowledge on CSR-related practices and approaches as
they apply to the extractive sector."
Centre
Info (Switzerland)
Centre Info offers advice and research into
corporate responsibility.
*CERES (U.S.A.)
CERES: The leading U.S.
coalition of environmental, investor and advocacy groups for a
sustainable future.
ChinaCSR.com (China)
"ChinaCSR.com offers news & views on Corporate Social Responsibility in China."
CorpGov.net
(U.S.A.)
"Since 1995 the Corporate Governance site at CorpGov.net facilitated
the ability of institutional and individual shareowners to better govern
corporations, enhancing both corporate accountability and the creation
of wealth."
CorporateResponsibility.net (U.K.)
Offers news related to corporate responsibility without the spin of a
normal press release.
Corporate Responsibility
Officer (CRO)
(U.S.A.)
"The Corporate Responsibility Officer... dedicated to increasing the professional capacity of the newest
corporate leadership role—the Corporate Responsibility Officer."
Corporate Watch (U.K.)
"Corporate Watch undertakes research on the social and environmental impact of large
corporations."
CSR Africa
(South Africa)
"Corporate Social Responsibility Africa Limited is in the business of
magazine and online publication and the offering of professional
consultancy and training in the field of corporate social
responsibility."
*CSRHUB
(U.S.A.)
"CSRHUB gives our users the information they need to evaluate
corporate social values and sustainability. Once armed with ratings
based on their own values, users can take action to both change their
behavior and to change the world."
CSR-Pedia
(U.S.A.)
"CSR-pedia is a fully searchable website that categorizes, catalogs,
and describes corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs developed
by companies to help solve social and environmental problems around the
world."
Executive Pay Watch
(U.S.A.)
US AFL-CIO supported website.
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
(EITI) (Norway)
"The EITI sets a global standard for transparency in oil, gas and
mining. It is...* An effort to make natural resources benefit all; * A
coalition of governments, companies and civil society; * A standard for
companies to publish what they pay and for governments to disclose what
they receive."
ELDIS (U.K.)
"ELDIS provides a corporate Social Responsibility Resource Guide."
Ethical Consumer
(U.K.)
"The Ethical Consumer... UK's only alternative consumer organisation looking at the social
and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names."
*EthicScan
Canada
(Can.)
EthicScan Canada is a consultancy,
research house and resource center for consumer and corporate ethics.
*EthicsWorld (U.S.A.)
EthicsWorld:
"This is the forum on the web for business
ethics, governance, and anti-corruption."
Ethisphere™
Magazine (U.S.A.)
"Ethisphere is the new ‘must-read’ publication for all things
ethics and compliance."
GMI
(U.S.A.)
"GMI is the leading independent provider of global corporate
governance, ESG and accounting risk ratings and research."
GoodCorporation
(U.K.)
GoodCorporation:
"Helps organisations to develop, manage and monitor their corporate
responsibilities."
Global Compact
Critics (Netherlands)
"Global Compact Critics is an informal network of organizations and
people with concerns about the UN Global Compact."
Global
Reporting Initiative (Netherlands)
"Global Reporting Initiative's mission is to develop and disseminate globally applicable
Sustainability Reporting Guidelines."
Governance & Accountability Institute
(U.S.A.)
"Helping leaders and organizations recognize, understand and address
critical ESG Factors to build more Sustainable enterprises in the
corporate, social and public sectors."
International Business Ethics Institute
(U.S.A. & U.K.)
"International Business Ethics Institute promote(s) equitable economic development, resource sustainability,
and just forms of government."
*International
Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC). (U.K.)
"The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project
(A4S) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
announced on Monday 2nd August 2010 the formation of the
International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC)...
The IIRC's remit is to create a globally accepted
framework for accounting for sustainability: a framework
which brings together financial, environmental, social
and governance information in a clear, concise,
consistent and comparable format - put briefly, in an
“integrated” format. The intention is to help with the
development of more comprehensive and comprehensible
information about an organization’s total performance,
prospective as well as retrospective, to meet the needs
of the emerging, more sustainable, global economic
model."
Knowmore.org (U.S.A.)
"... a vast database of easily searchable corporate and
political info designed to aid responsible citizens,
progressive thinkers and activists."
Lifeworth Annual Review (U.K./Australia)
Conducts annual surveys and reviews the status of global
corporate actions pertinent to social and environmental
sustainability.
Maplecroft (U.K.)
"Maplecroft specialises in the calculation, analysis
and visualisation of global risks. Our comprehensive
portfolio of data sets and interactive maps provide
clients with innovative and easy to access tools for
understanding, measuring and monitoring both inherent
risk exposures and risk management competences."
Make Trade Fair (Multinational)
Make Fair Trade Fair is sponsored by Oxfam
International. Promotes fair trading practices to
help the world's poor.
Olive Arbor (U.S.A.)
"Olive Arbor is an aggregator of the myriad of information that is out
there on how responsibly corporations are behaving. Our role is to make
this information easily accessible for people so they can be their own
judge how ethically businesses are behaving."
Pensions &
Investment Research Consultants Ltd. (PIRC)
(UK)
"PIRC is the UKs' leading independent research and advisory consultancy
providing services to institutional investors on corporate governance
and corporate social responsibility."
ProxyMonitor.org
(U.S.A.)
"ProxyMonitor.org—shedding light on shareholder proposals submitted
to publicly traded corporations via the annual proxy process. This site
is sponsored by the Center for Legal Policy, part of the non-partisan
and non-profit Manhattan Institute for Policy Research."
Republic of Mining
(Can.)
"This blog aims to build awareness among the media, the general
public and political decision makers about the economic and social
benefits of sustainable mining practices in the 21st Century. These
benefits include poverty alleviation, employment and enormous wealth
creation for governments and shareholders."
Reputex
(Hong Kong)
"RepuTex is a leading research and advisory firm, specialising in
carbon risk analytics for global companies and investment
professionals..."
Sethi International
Center for Corporate Accountability, Inc. (SICCA) (U.S.A.)
"SICCA is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to making
the impact of global business as positive as it can be for shareholders
and stakeholders at international, national and local levels. Based at
the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College of The City University of
New York."
Singapore Compact for CSR
(Singapore)
"The Singapore Compact is a not-for-profit multi-stakeholder and
membership-based organisation. The comparatively low annual subscription
fee aims to promote CSR in Singapore by encouraging wider
participation."
Stewardship Action Council
(U.S.A.)
"A national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving social and
environmental performance. Our members include representatives from the
academic, state government, non-governmental, investment and industrial
and services sectors."
SustainAbility (U.S.A.
& U.K.)
“SustainAbility is a sustainable development business
consultancy.”
SustainableBusiness (U.S.A.)
SustainableBusiness.com "... provide[s] global news and networking
services to help green business grow."
Sustainable Development International (U.K.)
"Sustainable Development International provides unique publishing services for business to raise awareness
about CSR in practice to influence effective sustainable development policy."
Sustainable
Investments Institute
(U.S.A.)
"The Sustainable Investment Institute (Si2), a non-profit
organization based in Washington, D.C., conducts impartial research and
publishes reports on organized efforts to influence corporate behavior
on social and environmental issues."
*The Natural
Step (U.S.A.)
The Natural Step successfully helps companies implement
sustainability.
UK Government's
Corporate Social Responsibility website (U.K.)
UK Government's Corporate Social Responsibility website:
"We have an ambitious vision for UK businesses to consider the economic,
social and environmental impacts of their activities, wherever they
operate in the world."
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
(Switz.)
"World Business Council for Sustainable Development is a coalition of 170 international companies united by a shared
commitment to sustainable development." |
