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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 [...]

Adam, Hayley, Roger, Tim and William would like to wish our clients, our partners, and the visitors to our website, a very happy new year.

We’d like to take this opportunity to use the CO3 blog to highlight this discussion piece written by Dai Powell of HCT Group.  HCT are a client of CO3 and we know the organisation well. It discusses, in a particularly erudite manner, how the UK trade union movement has failed to understand or embrace the [...]

The recent news that Nestlé plans to coat a proportion of their Kit Kats in Fair Trade chocolate, discussed a few days ago in the CO3 blog, has raised an interesting point. It is clear that opponents of the company, such as the Baby Milk Action campaign, feel that this decision is a PR ploy. [...]

How much do you know about your footwear? We would probably expect manufacturers to talk about their supply chains, their labour practices, in short, their corporate social responsibility. But, for some reason, there isn’t as much information out there as you might like.
Perhaps Britain’s best known shoe company is Clarks, or C&J Clark Ltd, to [...]

The news that Nestlé has decided to coat Kit Kat, which has been the UK’s favourite chocolate bar for as long as anyone can remember, in Fair Trade chocolate didn’t surprise us in CO3 world. In a refreshingly honest radio interview this morning, a representative of the company explained the bottom line. This decision is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]