Monthly Archives: January 2010

A few weeks ago I was rather surprised to come across a project called Accounting for Sustainability which is associated with the Prince of Wales. Further investigation revealed it to be supported by the great and the good drawn from the UK’s accountancy world. It aims, apparently, to supply companies with a uniform set of [...]

UK politicians have had a sharp reminder this week, in case they weren’t already aware, of why it is important to take social media into account when designing a communications strategy. A campaign poster, featuring the Leader of the Opposition, has become the focus of a satirical website and online chatter which is lampooning it [...]

We tend to expect that companies and organisations that operate in sectors with significant social impact should be keen to communicate that they have robust policies and systems in place to manage related areas of risk and opportunity. This isn’t always the case. Recent activity in the UK’s health services arena has highlighted this.
Michael Parkinson, [...]

Today saw the publication of the annual Greenpeace survey into the green credentials of the electronics industry. It looks at the progress that the leading manufacturers have been making over the last year in managing their environmental impacts.
The scope of the survey has always been limited by the fact that it principally examines the materials [...]

An interesting discussion appeared in the Financial Times on 31 December which many people will have missed due to the date of publication. It suggested that the tactics employed by campaigning NGOs which are directed at large multinationals are becoming increasingly sophisticated and businesslike. The author was Hugh Williamson, the paper’s European News Editor. The [...]