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Best practice & Ethics
Briefs .....
A network of environmental, human rights and community groups, including
Friends of the Earth has called on
Royal Dutch Shell to spend its money
repairing the $20bn worth of damage they claim the oil giant has done to the
environment and to communities. The
Shell Accountability
Campaign published a report, shortly before the company announced record
annual profits, detailing areas of the world such as Nigeria, Russia, South
Africa and Ireland where damage has been caused and estimates of the amount of
money that should be spent to solve the problems. Adverts were also placed in
the British newspaper, The Guardian and
Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant to get
people to support the campaign. Friends of the Earth wants directors of European
companies to have a legal duty to operate in a sustainable way.
The Global Reporting Initiative
(GRI) is inviting comments on its
electricity utilities sector supplement which aims to help companies
involved in electricity generation and distribution to better report on their
sustainability performance using the GRI reporting framework. All responses will
be analysed by GRI's electricity utility working group, and passed through its
technical advisory committee before an expected release of the pilot later this
year. The deadline for comments is 9 April.
The Big Four accountancy firms-
Deloitte,
Ernst & Young, KPMG and
PricewaterhouseCoopers - have agreed to work alongside the
World Economic Forum
Partnering Against Corruption Initiative on the
development of a framework for independent reviews of businesses’ anti-bribery
systems.
February, 2007 |
