Posts Tagged ‘Green CSR’
Sustainability or Social Responsibility — What’s in a Name?
By Robert Pojasek*
So, what’s in a name? There seems to be an endless battle over whether sustainability is merely a component of (corporate) social responsibility or whether social responsibility is simply one of the so-called bottom lines in sustainability’s triple bottom line (TBL).
It is not really a battle since neither side will even recognize the [...]
An Overview on Profit Maximizing with CSR
By Santika Ratayalaksmi
“Our biggest challenge this century is to take an idea that seems abstract—sustainable development—and turn it into a reality for all the world’s peoples.” Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General
One of humankind’s greatest challenges this century will be to ensure sustainable, just and balanced development.
The needs of current and future generations cannot be [...]
Corporate Social Responsibility: More Talk, Less Action?
By Richard Welford*
Our friends at IBM recently completed their hugely useful second annual survey of senior executives around the world asking them how they are handling environmental and sustainability issues as part of the business strategies.
The results are encouraging in some respects, but they show how a lack of timely information limits businesses’ ability to [...]
Ecobank Plans Major Carbon Financing Roll-out in Africa
The pan-African banking group, Ecobank, is putting together synergy in exploring opportunities in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects evaluation and carbon financing structure with plans for a major roll-out in Africa aimed at ensuring a low carbon economy.
Group CEO Anold Ekpe in a message to attendees of a CDM workshop in the Ghanaian capital, [...]
South African Minister Puts Tabs On Trimming CSR Budgets
The business sector in South Africa has been urged to ensure that expenditure on social responsibility does not become the first and easiest budget item to cut when adapting to the current economic slowdown.
Minister for women, children and persons with disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya, said CSR was no longer just a gesture of goodwill viable only [...]
