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ECCR quarterly Bulletin, no. 58

September 2005

• The Carbon Disclosure Project (pdf)
• A greener shade of White Paper (pdf)
• EIRIS seminar – companies and risk management
• A climate for change - trustees guide to climate risk (pdf)
• FTSE4Good acts on climate change
• Wind farms on the cover
• Co-op Group CSR report
• BHP Billiton update­

ECCR quarterly Bulletin, 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

ECCR quarterly Bulletin, 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

ECCR publishes BHP Billiton: The End of the Pipe – Policies into Practice?

January 2005

This 91-page report examines the policies and practice of BHP Billiton, one of the world’s largest mining and resource companies, drawing on the Bench Marks analytic framework. The report questions the extent to which several of the company’s corporate responsibility policies are being successfully implemented.

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ECCR quarterly Bulletin, no. 55

December 2004

• What does sustainable development require of business? - report of ECCR’s open debate at the Said Business School, Oxford, chaired by Sir Crispin Tickell, with speakers Stewart Wallis (NEF), Caroline Lucas MEP and Richard Aylard (Thames Water)
• 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

ECCR publishes GSK: Getting Better?

April 2004

This report uses the Bench Marks 2003 edition to look at GlaxoSmithKline’s policy and performance in a range of areas including environmental management, community relations, lobbying, advertising and the pricing of drugs in developing countries.

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ECCR quarterly Bulletin, no. 52

March 2004

• The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative – questions for company AGM
• The Agribusiness Accountability Initiative
• Testing the banking sector’s Equator Principles
• Corporate law and structures – exposing the roots of the problem