General news

ECCR quarterly Bulletin, no. 69

June 2008 

Positive Alternatives for Investment

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• Investing positively - a range of options
• Oikocredit and fair provision for the needs of all (pdf)
• ECCR's Oxford Group – the story so far (pdf)
• The launch of ECCR’s South-West Group
• Will Canada regulate its mining companies internationally? (pdf)­

New ECCR report finds mixed response from food and drinks companies on water sustainability

May 2008

Many food and drinks processing companies have much to do before they can claim to be operating sustainably in terms of water consumption, concludes a new report published by ECCR. The report analyses the water use policies and performance of fifteen leading British and Irish food and drinks businesses, including their agricultural supply chains and overseas operations. Three companies - Diageo, SAB Miller and Unilever - show greatest evidence of addressing the need to monitor, report on and reduce their water footprint. Others, on the other hand, have been slow to respond to the challenge...

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ECCR presents investor statement on Alberta tar sands at BP AGM

April 2008

Eleven long-term US and UK investors went on record at BP’s AGM in London on 17 April to raise their concerns about the company’s entry into the Canadian oil sands. Prior to BP’s announcement in December 2007, it had been understood that the company would not pursue tar sands development due to the heavy carbon footprint of both the operations and the end-product...

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ECCR quarterly Bulletin, no. 68

March 2008 

Tackling climate change­

• 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

ECCR welcomes members of CEIG on merger

February 2008 

The Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR) has opened its doors to members of the Christian Ethical Investment Group (CEIG), which voted in January 2008 to dissolve itself as an independent organisation and transfer its activities and assets to ECCR...

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ECCR quarterly Bulletin, no. 67

December 2007 

Water sustainability: the challenge to business – open debate report

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• 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
  

ECCR quarterly Bulletin, no. 66

September 2007 

The Church and her Money: the JustShare debate

• 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

ECCR quarterly Bulletin, no. 65

June 2007

Water - stewardship and social justice

• ­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

Shell's Corrib natural gas project, Ireland: ECCR visit report summary

May 2007­

In March 2007 two ECCR representatives made a fact-finding visit to Shell’s troubled Corrib natural gas project in County Mayo, Ireland, to meet a wide range of stakeholders...

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ECCR quarterly Bulletin, no. 64

March 2007

­Corporate responsibility in Central and  Eastern Europe  ­

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• 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?

ECCR open debate: 'Water sustainability: the challenge to business'

September 2007  ­­

Held at Methodist Church House, London. Chair: Claire Foster (National Policy Adviser, Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England). Speakers: Dr Tom Le Quesne (WWF-UK), Jacob Tompkins (Waterwise), David Gardner (The Co-operative Farms), Nicole Lander (Dairy Crest).

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Debate chair Claire F­oster (standing) and panel members (l-to-r) Tom Le Quesne, Nicole Lander, Jacob Tompkins, David Gardner.

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Juliet Peck

January 20­07

ECCR was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Juliet Peck, a member of the ECCR Board...

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'Prospecting for solutions': CIDSE appeal on impacts of extractive industries on development

January 2007

ECCR participated in preparation of an appeal on the impacts on human development of oil, mining and logging by CIDSE and its partners from five continents issued in January 2007 at the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya …

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Mining in the Philippines report launch

January 2006

The fact-finding mission report Mining in the Philippines: Concerns and Conflicts was launched in London after co-author ECCR Board member Fr Frank Nally was banned from re-entering the Philippines...

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[Actions to take]

ECCR quarterly Bulletin, no. 63

December 2006

­'Fly­ing in the face of climate change?' - report on the open debate  ­

• ­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?