The World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has released a report indicating cement manufacturers had stepped up efforts to reducing their carbon emissions.
Under the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI), representing the collective effort of 18 leading cement companies from around the world, the report “Cement Industry Energy and CO2 Performance: ‘Getting the Numbers Right’” documents emissons and energy [...]

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By Jimmy Kiberu*
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has of late become popular among firms and has benefited many communities and individuals.
However, it has also become one of the most misused terms in contemporary corporate nomenclature.
Not only has it become a misnomer, it has also become a ‘silver-bullet’ for some organizations to white-wash their shortcomings through unsustainable [...]

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By Robert Pojasek*
Organizations with a formal sustainability management system have to deal with corrective and preventive actions — often referred to as CAPAs.
Most management systems aficionados are well aware of the need to engage in corrective actions as a means of dealing with nonconformities in the system. However, the preventive actions are often relegated to [...]

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GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, has released its Corporate Responsibility Report for 2008.
In the report, GSK reiterated its commitment to running its business responsibly and transparently. GSK provided an update on how it will work to improve access to medicines in the developing world and further details [...]

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The popularity of sustainability reports among larger companies has increased rapidly in recent years.
Back in the 1980’s, only chemical companies issued “sustainability reports.” Those reports were really just environmental impact reports.
Today, over 50% of the Global Fortune 100 and more than 2000 companies worldwide from every imaginable industry issue sustainability reports that focus not only [...]

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