­­­­

­­­Quarterly Bulletin­­

June 2013 sees the final issue of the ECCR bulletin. In future 3 briefing papers will be produced a year.

­Request a free copy of the Bulletin

­No 88: ECCR: New Direction

June 2013

  • Keeping Faith in Finance
  • Ethical Money Churches
  • Free Prior Informed Consent
  • Protecting Vulnerable Workers
  • G8: IF tax and transparency are tackled 

­­Read this issue (pdf)

No. 87: Supermarkets: power and responsibility­

­­March 2013­­

ECCR Bulletin 87 
  • ­­Successful campaign to give regulation teeth
  • Supermarkets and Israeli settlement goods
  • Supermarket pricing: the need for change­
  • Enough Food For Everyone IF
Read thi­s issue (pdf)­
­­

 ­ ­

 No. 86: The Economic Order: challenging the status quo

December 2012

ECCR Bulletin 86 
  • ­­The economic order: theological reflections
  • Time for ethics: moral framework for business
  • A right relationship with money: Church of Scotland report
  • It's time to close the gap
Read thi­s issue (pdf)­
­­

 ­No. 85: Hydrocarbons: concerns & challenges

July 2012

ECCR Bulletin 85 
  • New developments in the Niger Delta
  • Investor risk in Actic oil exploration
  • Safe fracking: do it right or don't operate
  • EROI: an important acronym
  • London Olympics: fighting human trafficking
Read this issue (pdf)
­

No. 84: Bribery & Corruption

March 2012

ECCR Bulletin 84 
  • Raising UK's game: the new Bribery Act
  • Corruption in extractive sectors
  • Trace the Tax
  • QPortfolios: Quaker-governanced investment
  • ECCR West Midlands: Banks and Society
Read this issue (pdf)

No. 83: Vulnerable workers debate

December 2011

ECCR Bulletin 83 
  • Vulnerable Workers: London 2012 debate
  • Human Trafficking: the links to business
  • Tax planning and corporate social responsibility
  • Spills and Spin: book review
Read this issue (pdf)

No. 82: Food prices and financial markets

September 2011
ECCR Bulletin 82 
  • Pension funds and global hunger
  • The ethics of speculating on food
  • The Economy of Communion
  • ICCR's Social Sustainability Guide
  • Biofuels: ethical and sustainable returns
Read this issue (pdf)

No. 81: Pornography & Sex Trafficking

June 2011
ECCR Bulletin 81 
  • Pornography in your investment portfolio?
  • Tourism industry can help stop trafficking
  • Protecting children from exploitation in tourism
  • Banking on trust
Read this issue (pdf)

No. 80: Oil Extraction – Risks to Health

March 2011
ECCR Bulletin 80 
  • Canada’s oil sands, health and human rights
  • Gas flaring and health in Niger Delta
  • New charity guidance: a defining moment for social investment?
  • The struggle to protect Bristol Bay, Alaska
Read this issue (pdf)

No. 79: Positive Impact Investment - debate report

December 2010
ECCR Bulletin 79 
  • Positive Impact Investment - debate report
  • The Food and Fairness Inquiry
  • Good business and accountability
  • Investing for a fairer world
Read this issue (pdf)

No. 78: Gender Perspectives on Business

September 2010
ECCR Bulletin 78 
  • Mining's impact on women
  • Women workers and the ETI
  • Make gender balance a priority
  • Financial mechanisms for community investing
  • Responsible banking options
Read this issue (pdf)

No. 77: Positive Impact Investment

June 2010
ECCR Bulletin 77 
  • Impact, leadership and faith
  • Money for mission
  • Triodos Renewables
  • Social enterprise investment
  • Banking on Justice conference report
Read this issue (pdf)

No. 76: World Council of Churches Statements on Finance, Economy, Eco-Justice and Debt

March 2010
ECCR Bulletin 76 
  • Just finance and the economy of life
  • Eco-justice and ecological debt
  • Bitter cotton harvest in Uzbekistan
Read this issue (pdf)

No. 75: The Future of Banking: Ethical and Sustainable?

December 2009
ECCR Bulletin 75 
  • The Future of Banking - debate report
  • Bankers' pay and the financial crisis
  • The UN Principles for Responsible Management Education
  • Response to a flawed SRI model
Read this issue (pdf)

No. 74: Global Supply Chains: Injustice Persists

September 2009
ECCR Bulletin 74 
  • Supply chain labour standards
  • The Ethical Trading Initiative
  • UK workers and gangmasters
  • ECCR West Midlands Group event
  • Tax reform and corporate responsibility
Read this issue (pdf)

No. 73: Companies, Communities and Religious Investors

June 2009
ECCR Bulletin 73 
  • Dublin conference report
  • Settlement products, a barrier to peace
  • BHP Billiton yet to respond to CAFOD
  • Aldersgate Group: Green foundations needed
Read this issue (pdf)

­No. 72: Multinationals and food security in Asia

March 2009
ECCR Bulletin 72­ ­
  • Stark choice facing the Philippines (pdf)
  • Thousands go without water in India, courtesy Coca-Cola
  • Time for a UK Commission on business and human rights
  • The Economic Crisis – conference report

­

No. 71: Migrant workers: rights and responsibilities

December 2008­
ECCR Bulletin 71 ­

­

No. 70: Business and Human Rights

September 2008­
ECCR Bulletin 70 ­

­

No. 69: Positive Alternatives for Investment

June 2008

No. 68: Tackling climate change 

March 2008

  • Carbon disclosure: the need for mandatory standards
  • Alberta's tar sands
  • Carbon credits – ducking responsibility to reduce emissions?
  • Stern Review a year on – now for a carbon council
  • Nestlé's Brazilian water – corporate irresponsibility?
  • Fair trade begins at home

  

No. 67: Water sustainability: the challenge to business – open debate report 

December 2007 

  • Water sustainability: the challenge to business - open debate report
  • Corporate social responsibility and social improvement in the UK
  • FairPensions: campaigning for investor responsibility
  • The challenge of economic co-operation between the faiths

  

No. 66: The Church and her money: the JustShare debate

September 2007

  • The Church as ethical investor
  • Virtuous investment
  • Caste discrimination and the private sector in India
  • Pharmaceutical companies – ethical issues
  • The ETI assesses its impact
  • New Bench Marks Foundation Report on platinum mining

  

No. 65: Water - stewardship and social justice

June 2007

  • Juliet Peck
  • The need for effective water stewardship
  • Water and privatisation
  • 'Made in Eastern Europe' - the other face of fashion
  • Investing - alternatives to global capitalism
  • Taking stock of business and human rights
  • The first step in faith

 

No. 64: Corporate responsibility in Central and Eastern Europe

March 2007

  • Corporate social responsibility in post-Communist EU countries
  • Tesco in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Nigeria - cleaning up the tarnished jewel
  • Executive pay
  • Voluntary or mandatory corporate responsibility and sustainability reporting?

 

No. 63: `Flying in the face of climate change?’ - report on the open debate

December 2006

  • ECCR open debate: 'Flying in the face of climate change?'
  • Shell's deepening impasse at Corrib
  • Prague workshop: commitment to work together
  • Biofuels: green gain or greenwash?
  • CSR in Latin America - legally enforced or voluntary?

 

No. 62: Justice, stewardship and shareholder democracy

September 2006

  • Shell resolution: unfinished business?
  • New Companies Bill enfranchises nominee shareholders
  • Mining and indigenous peoples in the Philippines
  • Dialogue with Rio Tinto
  • Counting the cost of gold: new report from CAFOD
  • Making global food chains more equitable: book review

 

No. 61: Responsibility, dialogue and risk

June 2006

  • Shareholder responsibility and the role of business
  • Effective dialogue with companies
  • Measuring corporate social, environmental and ethical risk
  • Unanswered questions: British Aerospace's AGM
  • Breaking ground: new book on responsible investment
  • Stewardship challenge to the churches

 

No. 60: Corporate responsibility - workers’ perspectives

March 2006

  • Companies and child labour in India
  • Electronics industry labour standards
  • The corporate responsibility paradox
  • Made in China
  • Trade unions and corporate responsibility

 

No. 59

December 2005

  • Report of ECCR open debate: 'The ethical supply chain'
  • The ethical supply chain – perspective from Ethical Consumer
  • Argentina's carbon fund

 

No. 58

September 2005

  • The Carbon Disclosure Project
  • A greener shade of White Paper
  • EIRIS seminar on companies’ risk management
  • A climate for change
  • FTSE4Good acts on climate change
  • Wind farms on the cover
  • Co-op Group CSR report
  • BHP Billiton update

 

No. 57

June 2005

  • Israel, human rights and corporate responsibility
  • Engagement versus disinvestment
  • Imerys – English China Clay
  • Tax avoidance
  • Rio Tinto - meeting global needs for minerals and metals
  • Mining in developing countries – a conflict of interest?
  • BP – issues to watch

 

No. 56

March 2005

  • Sharp Corp. environmental report
  • Socially responsible investment in Korea
  • 'The world's local bank' - HSBC
  • Shareholder engagement for charitable foundations
  • French religious investors consider investment in energy
  • Pills and pay levels – Novartis
  • Pfizer Inc. – 'biggest drug company ever'
  • The vital ingredient -  palm oil

 

No. 55

December 2004

  • What does sustainable development require of business? - report of ECCR open debate
  • The goat in the flow station – report from CSCR Port Harcourt on Shell in Nigeria
  • The Corrib gas field – questions to the Shell Board
  • Mining and BHP Billiton
­ ­
  
Latest news  
Publish What You Pay Letter to the Times
­ECCR supports the Publish What You Pay (PWYP... more...

No 88. Final ECCR Bulletin
­­­­­­June 2013ECCR: New Direction Keeping Fa... more...

Join ECCR
ECCR welcomes new corporate and individual members, and invites you to join.


Donate
Your support will help ECCR achieve more...


Stay in touch
Sign up to our e-newsletter:
  Sign up

Print page Print Page