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Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 24 August 2020
Progress on several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has slowed, or even regressed, due to the COVID-19 crisis. SDGs on health, hunger, decent work, and poverty are among those most affected by the pandemic. In hopes of reversing this trend, the UN calls for collaboration and international...
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 17 August 2020
630 international NGOs have expressed their fear for countries that adopted strict confinement measures and halted certain economic activities to slow the spread of COVID-19. Such countries could soon be targeted by many companies that feel wronged by these actions. In the United Kingdom, airlines...
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 29 May 2020
The current health crisis should serve as a "wake-up call" to build a fairer economy. This was the statement made by Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, the first American investment bank and most powerful bank in global finance. According to JP Morgan, far too many people live on the brink of...
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 12 May 2020
Following BP and Shell, Total recently announced its 2050 carbon neutrality commitment. Their plan will focus on the oil giant’s production activities and the energy products used by its customers. Convinced that this strategy is a prerequisite for company sustainability, Total has aligned itself...
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 03 March 2020
Major German companies are far from meeting the Paris Agreement objectives. According to the German start-up "Right. based on science", the climate trajectories of DAX 30 companies, equivalent to the FTSE 100 in England, is set to reach nearly 5°C by 2050. RWE , HeidelbergCement and E.On, even hover...
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 26 February 2020
Reporting by European companies on the environmental and social dimensions of their activities is not meeting stakeholder expectations and the climate emergency. The Alliance for Corporate Transparency coalition made this stark observation in its February 17th publication in Brussels. This makes the...
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 19 November 2019
For shareholders in support of the ecological transition, BHP – one of the world’s largest mining companies – must end ties with fossil fuel lobbyist groups. Almost one-third of shareholders voted for such a resolution, but according to the CEO of BHP, leaving these associations will not lead the...
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 13 November 2019
Exxon has lied to its investors and underestimated, or rather neglected to consider, the costs associated with climate change regulations. This mistake has had a significant impact on the profitability of the oil giant’s business operations and became the focus of a climate change trial that began...
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 08 October 2019
Four years after their adoption, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become the focus of a first-ever summit at the UN. While certain targets seem increasingly unattainable, it may only be a matter of remobilizing the public and private actors needed to achieve results by 2030.
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 07 April 2019
Google's ambition was to develop an artificial intelligence program with the US military. But faced with the outcry raised by its own employees, the company has since changed course and set up an ethics committee on this new technology. Impacted by a poor casting of board members, the plan has...
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 05 April 2019
22 March is World Water Day. This basic resource is increasingly abused due to demographic pressure as well as growing industrial and agricultural needs. Despite increased awareness of the risks associated with water scarcity and water degradation, large global companies are only adding to this...
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 04 April 2019
A $5.800 trillion opportunity. This is what greater workplace gender equality could provide the economy, and in doing so, increase global GDP by 3.9%. While equality should not be subject to economic performance, several studies show that inequalities are stalling growth. In some developing...
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 25 March 2019
It's time for agribusiness actors to take the plant-based path. Driven by an activist fund, Nestlé has just separated from the Herta delicatessen division to move towards more plant-based options. McDonald's will soon offer a vegetarian burger, and Danone wants to compete with French organic brand,...
In the future, business accounting will have to integrate the degradation of human and natural capital caused by company activities. In any case, this is what many experts are trying to push with a new method of accounting soon to be tested in France.
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 10 March 2019
To maintain a 2°C trajectory, it is a known fact that two-thirds of all fossil reserves have to be kept underground. However, the majority of oil and gas companies screened by Carbon Tracker continue to base executive compensation on the growth of hydrocarbon production and the increase in their...
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 23 February 2019
It's a world’s first pilot, a British biomass plant has managed to capture the CO2 it emits. This is an important step forward in the fight against climate change. The IPCC estimates that this technology could remove about fifteen million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year by 2030.
Glencore is not withdrawing from coal. However, the group’s recent announcement is almost the same thing for the stunned public, after expressing their desire to cap coal production. Pressured by investors to align their strategy with the Paris Agreement, Glencore will focus its business on premium...
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 22 February 2019
An Australian court just reached a potentially far-reaching decision for the mining industry. In order to reject a coal mining project, the court invoked climate change and the Paris Agreement.
Corporate Social Responsibility - Published on 11 February 2019
The recent bankruptcy of energy giant Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) is a very concrete illustration of climate risk. Suspected of being at the origin of the fires that devastated California last November, the company alone is paying a heavy price for its poor consideration of climatic...
Global temperatures are rising, and biodiversity is degrading. Some experts are even predicting the collapse of our civilisation in the near future. Yet, the WWF along with the Banque de France have identified how renewable energy development, agricultural transformation and corporate engagement are...
