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Searching with a thematic focus on CR frameworks, Corporate Social Responsibility

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  Beyond good deeds: case studies and a new policy agenda for corporate accountability

  Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, 2002

  This paper questions whether corporations should be entrusted to self-regulate and enforce responsible practice in a global context that lacks accountability. The authors explore what role government should play in defining norms and providing incentives for better corporate performance, both at home and abroad.
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  CSR and global business principles

  MHC International, 2002

  This paper briefly reviews the hundreds of CSR codes of conduct and principles around the world. It concludes that these codes are proliferating but rarely, if ever, situate themselves within what has happened before and why the new code is different or advances on previous ones.Few, if any, have a theoretical basis for their codes and many simply cover just one or at most two stakeholders.
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  Market failure: the case for mandatory social and environmental reporting

  New Economics Foundation, 2002

  The evidence to date shows that the market does not provide sufficient incentives for companies to report on their social and environmental impacts on a voluntary basis.Voluntary reporting overlooks the fact that governments have a distinct responsibility to provide an adequate framework not only to protect citizens' rights, but to ensure that basic needs are met.
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  Eskom: corporate powerhouse or green company?

  Corporate Watch, 2002

  Eskom will be South Africa's number one Corporate Environmentalism Exhibit, during the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, despite having contravened two of the Global Compact principles.The author details the negative behaviour of Eskom.
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  Greenwash + 10: The UN's Global Compact, corporate accountability and the Johannesburg Earth Summit

  Corporate Watch, 2002

  Looks at the relationship between the UN and corporations in the context of the forthcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). In particular the authors focus on the Global Compact, a high profile UN initiative building corporate partnerships based on adherence to key UN principles, and the activities of the BASD, a corporate lobby group.
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  Corporate environmental responsibility in Singapore and Malaysia: the potential and limits of voluntary initiatives

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2001

  Assesses the influences that encourage voluntary environmental initiatives, the types of action taken and the extent to which these may substitute for other forms of environmental regulation. It begins with a review of the motivations thought to encourage voluntary initiatives over other ways of promoting environmental improvement.
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  Corporate codes of conduct: self-regulation in a global economy

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2001

  This paper sets out to explain in more detail the changes that have taken place in corporate regulation, and to assess the significance of these changes. It explores the drivers that account for the growth of corporate codes of conduct, and the different stakeholders and interest groups involved.
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  Environmental financial accounting and reporting at the corporate level

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 1998

  Interim statement of best practice guidance for accounting and reporting for environmental costs and liabilities. It is synthesized from a background paper, "Accounting and reporting for environmental liabilities and costs within the existing financial reporting framework", which reviews positions taken by numerous national standard-setting and other organizations.
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  Corporate environmental reporting and the UNEP/SustainAbility Benchmarking Tool

  1998

  The UNEP/SustainAbility benchmarking tool for corporate environmental reports (CERs) has been seen as a possible method for achieving comparability of environmental performance data and reporting.
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  Engaging Stakeholders: The 1997 UNEP/SustainAbility Benchmark Survey [summary]

  SustainAbility, 1998

  Ranks 100 of the latest corporate environmental reports. The survey was published in December 1998 and forms part of the ongoing United Nations Environment Programme 'Engaging Stakeholders' initiative. It is carried out by SustainAbility and financially supported by 18 international companies.

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