The Sustainability Learning Forum

Social Compliance As an Essential Component of Integrated Reporting

Kenan Tur, Business Keeper
Business Keeper AG

Corporate reporting is going through a fundamental change. It has been a common practice for responsible market participants to publish a sustainability report or corporate responsibility report in addition to the annual report in order to provide stakeholders with potentially relevant information. But trends from politics, economics, and society are currently leading to a changing in the reporting landscape. more[...]

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Breaking Barriers in Gender, Health, and the Environment Through Synergy

Manila Doctors Hospital

Manila Doctors Hospital (MDH) is the first and only private hospital in the Philippines to ever commit to and publicly declare a “social vision.” Since then, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become deeply embedded in the corporate culture of MDH. It is a conscious effort that we align our CSR programs with both the international and national commitments for human development. In combining applicability, sustainability, and replicability in CSR program implementation, MDH is now creating a path toward program sustainability, which thrives on synergy. more[...]

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Projects

Juan Ramón Silva Ferrada, Acciona
Acciona

The Social Impact Management methodology aims to integrate Social Impact Management into all levels of the process of identifying opportunities as well as bidding on and executing projects at ACCIONA, with a proactive focus on a commitment to the communities in which it operates. more[...]

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Anti Corruption for Human Security

This article introduces the frameworks of sustainable human security in relation to anticorruption. more[...] login_required

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Anti-Competitive Practices

Editorial Team

Unfair competition encapsulates conduct by businesses which amount to gaining an unfair advantage over their competitors, or unfairly preventing other businesses from trading successfully. more[...] login_required

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Competing fairly – An introduction to the laws on anti-competitive behaviour

Competing fairly is one of a series of quick guides designed to inform businesses about how the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) applies competition law in the UK. more[...] login_required

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Combating Anti-competitive Practices – A Guide for Developing Economy Exporters

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Study dealing with anti-competitive practices and the measures that can be taken to address them more[...] login_required

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Human Rights – SANOFI Approach

Sanofi
Tatiana Campos-Rocha, Sanofi

In line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, Sanofi has adopted an ambitious and holistic approach to ensure that human rights are soundly integrated throughout all the Group’s operations. For Sanofi, it is essential to ensure that respect for human rights is integrated into our business activities everywhere we operate, including in countries considered to be at risk for matters concerning human rights. more[...]

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Business Ethics

Business ethics - some also call it corporate ethics - deals with moral principles and social values. It is based on the assumption that as an individual as well as organization you should act ethically. According to Andrew Crane, "Business ethics is the study of business situations, activities, and decisions where issues of right and wrong are addressed." more[...]

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Sustainable Business Cases

The concept of a green economy has become the new buzz word in sustainability discourses, particularly in light of the Rio+20 Conference. Because of the current economic crisis and the perception that sustainability politics cannot be implemented efficiently, politicians have set their hopes on greening the economy. However, in everydays work it turns out that it isn´t that easy. What are good strategies, solutions, examples? more[...]

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Traceability models

Editorial Team

There are three main models in terms of how traceability schemes trace sustainability claims. These models offer different approaches to tracking a claim and confirming it at each point in the supply chain. The three models are Product Segregation, Mass Balance, and Book and Claim. They are differentiated by the extent to which certified and non-certified materials are permitted to mix, as well as by claims that can be attached to the final product. more[...] login_required

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World’s First Guide on Traceability Advances Supply Chain Sustainability

Elga Reyes, Eco Business

The United Nations Global Compact and BSR have released the first guide on traceability, which will help companies and consumers ensure that their materials and products are produced responsibly. more[...] login_required

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Global Trends Toward Mandatory CSR

Disclosure efforts by governments around the world more[...]

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Where does CSR begin? Where does it end?

Dr. Elmer Lenzen

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become firmly established in the business lexicon. Although some conversation partners still need to be reminded of what CSR really is and why it is important, most of them understand its value by now. Indeed, this leads to many different expectations for CSR, such that discussions around it today are shifting toward putting limits on the term and creating rules around it. Where does CSR begin? Where does it end? more[...]

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CSR around the world

CSR examples from Africa, Latin America, China and the Middle East more[...]

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