OSLO – Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has sold its $850-million stake in mining group Rio Tinto, blaming it for environmental damage in Indonesia, the government said yesterday. The finance ministry excluded the company from Norway’s $375-billion fund, selling in the first half of 2008 slightly more than one-half-per-cent stake in Rio Tinto that was [...]

Le moteur de recherche sur internet Google, la première banque européenne HSBC et le câblo-opérateur Liberty Global se sont associés dans un projet destiné à fournir un accès internet haut débit à faible coût à trois milliards de personnes vivant en Afrique et dans d’autres pays émergents. Le projet, baptisé O3b Networks, vise la [...]

Increased attention on product human risk and smaller media coverage of drug donations have challenged Pharmaceuticals’ ethical reputation last year, states a report published today by Geneva-based research firm Covalence – Covalence Pharmaceutical Industry Report 2008. The pharmaceutical industry dropped from the first to the third rank of Covalence all-time EthicalQuote ranking across 10 industries. [...]

Most consumers probably associate eBay Inc. more with vintage lunch boxes and low-priced electronics than with laptop bags made from recycled plastic by women in New Delhi. The online auction operator is trying to change that perception with WorldofGood.com, a Web site due to launch Wednesday to sell goods produced with social and environmental [...]

DYERSVILLE, Iowa – A former McDonald’s employee filed a complaint with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission alleging he was unlawfully fired because he’s a gay man with HIV. Daniel Carver, 46, alleges that what began as a lack of promotions and fewer hours escalated to derogatory names, violence and death threats. Carver alleged [...]

Pour l’année 2008, dans le domaine du développement durable, AIR FRANCE KLM a été nommé « Super Sector Leader », soit leader du secteur élargi « Voyages et loisirs », et pour la quatrième année consécutive, leader de son secteur par les deux indices Dow Jones Sustainability – DJSI World et DJSI STOXX. Image source: [...]

Saisie par un salarié d’un supermarché Wal-Mart au Mexique, la Cour suprême de ce pays a dénoncé, jeudi 4 septembre, les pratiques de la chaîne américaine. La plus haute juridiction mexicaine a annulé une convention établie au sein de Wal-Mart qui prévoyait le paiement d’une partie des salaires des employés en bons d’achat utilisables seulement [...]

Our goal was to elevate our company’s commitment to transparency, accountability and stakeholder dialogue on our social, environmental and economic performance in the communities around the world where we have mining operations and development projects. This report has been compiled using the Global Reporting Initiative (G3) guidelines. The report was too large to send, but [...]

Microsoft’s “green” initiatives have generated quite a bit of buzz lately. What does this mean for Microsoft employees? Francois Ajenstat, Director of Environmental Sustainability here at Microsoft, stopped by JobsBlog to answer a few of my questions. Who are the Greenies? And what’s with those new compostable forks and green cups in the [...]

SCHAUMBURG, Ill., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — For the sixth consecutive year, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT – News) has achieved a 100 percent score in the 2009 Corporate Equality Index (CEI). The Corporate Equality Index 2009, which was released today, rated 260 major U.S. companies from a wide range of industries on how they treat their [...]