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Monthly Archives: November 2009

27 Nov 2009

The CO3 award goes to the wonderfully named Julie’s Bicycle .
We’re a fan of cross-industry CSR initiatives and have worked, in the past, with one of the best known ones. This, however, has a more formal name and is known as the International Council on Mining and Metals or ICMM to their friends.
We discovered Julie’s [...]

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23 Nov 2009

An interesting article appeared in a recent edition of the Times, citing current levels of coal storage at power stations up and down the country.  Apparently “Britain’s coal mountain has soared to its highest level in nearly 15 years”, as plant operators take advantage of recession-fuelled low prices.  The article appears, ironically, little more than [...]

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11 Nov 2009

One of the things we have always found a little depressing about the “CSR sector” in which we are bracketed is the failure of many practitioners within it to coherently articulate the importance of CSR concepts. The results of this state of affairs is more confusion, not less, about the what, why, and how [...]

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5 Nov 2009

The Accounting Standards Board (ASB) recently published ‘A Review of Narrative Reporting by UK Listed Companies in 2008/2009′. The ASB is an operating body of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). The FRC is the UK’s independent regulator responsible for promoting confidence in corporate reporting and governance.
Of the eight Companies Act requirements reviewed, one pertains specifically [...]

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