Continuing its commitment to provide more certification options for its customers, International Paper (NYSE: IP) today announced the expansion of its Forest Stewardship Council(R) (FSC(R)) Chain-of-Custody certification to include a majority of its U.S. pulp and paper mills and a number of converting facilities across its businesses. The increase establishes the company as having the [...]

The PepsiCo Foundation and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian agency which fights hunger worldwide, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at enhancing the ability of WFP to deliver food and relief to the most vulnerable communities around the globe. The PepsiCo Foundation has committed $2.2 million for a program that [...]

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the greenest of them all? Top manufacturers of personal computers in the U.S. — Hewlett-Packard Co, Dell Inc, and fourth-place Apple Inc. — are each claiming to have the “greenest” PCs on the market. The companies are crafting entire business plans around selling their “greenness” to consumers.John Spooner, [...]

Le PDG Bernard Arnault a confirmé jeudi matin que le groupe de luxe allait prendre très prochainement une participation dans Edun, la marque de vêtements équitable et bio créée par Bono, le chanteur de U2. Le commerce équitable et la mode sont deux univers compatibles. Voici ce qu’avaient voulu démontrer le chanteur du groupe U2 [...]

It is hard to capture the myriad of emotions expressed by the Ogoni and their supporters following last week’s agreement between Royal Dutch Shell and the families of some Ogoni leaders executed in 1995 by the military government of General Sani Abacha. There was exhilaration, caution, shock and disappointment. But, shocked disappointment appears to be [...]

Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceuticals group, defied the World Health Organisation and some of its corporate peers by ruling out a donation to the poor of vaccines to counter the latest flu pandemic, and saying developing nations or donor nations should cover the costs. Daniel Vasella, Novartis chief executive, told the Financial Times that he would [...]

Microsoft Corp. late Monday said a Chinese rule that personal computers sold in the country include Web filtering software raises issues of freedom of expression, privacy, and security that “need to be properly addressed.” The statement by the U.S. software giant came after a U.S. computer industry association denounced the Chinese move and the largest [...]

Shell today agreed to settle a court case in New York related to allegations in connection with the Nigerian military government’s execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and others in 1995, making a humanitarian gesture to set up a trust fund to benefit the Ogoni people. At the same time, the plaintiffs have dismissed all claims made [...]

Survival International today called on all oil companies operating in the Peruvian Amazon to suspend operations as the country comes to terms with the worst political violence since the Shining Path insurgency in the 1980s. The companies include Anglo-French Perenco (a major gas supplier to the UK), Argentina’s PlusPetrol, Canada’s Petrolifera, Spain’s Repsol, Brazil’s Petrobras [...]

Alcatel-Lucent has announced the operational launch of the first alternative energy laboratory and pilot site in the world dedicated to the telecoms sector. Located on its Bell Labs research site in Villarceaux, France, this station forms part of an Alternative Energy strategic programme launched by Alcatel-Lucent to respond to the growing demand from wireless operators [...]