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Vol.5 Week 26 02/07/2009
The end of the glossy report? The future for CSR reporting
by Richard Welford rwelford@csr-asia.com
I have read a number of CSR reports recently and quite a number have bored me. I am finding that I am actually less inclined to read reports that cover the same old ground, only tell you the ‘good news’ stories and are written in a way that ought to cure insomnia. This is, of course, part of a bigger problem associated with who actually reads these reports. How many of the hundreds of CSR reports out there have you read? ... (More)
Corruption: Consumers offer a premium on clean companies
by Erin Lyon elyon@csr-asia.com
Transparency International’s 2009 Global Corruption Barometer (TI Barometer) is the sixth annual report of the findings of a public opinion survey that explores the general public’s views of corruption, as well as documenting experiences of bribery around the world. The report assesses the extent to which key institutions and public services are perceived to be corrupt, measures citizens’ views on government efforts ... (More)
New CSR rule in Taiwan
by Stephen Frost sfrost@csr-asia.com
Last year, the Taiwan Financial Supervisory Commission released a CSR disclosure rule. It is still only available in Chinese, but in the interest of greater awareness CSR Asia offers this English translation. It is interesting to see Taiwan amending regulations that require greater company disclosure and transparency. This move confirms something CSR Asia has been arguing for several years; governments in Asia are tending towards ... (More)
Building capacity in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
by Helen Roeth hroeth@csr-asia.com
The Second Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GFDRR) was convened two weeks ago and it seems little attention was paid to the role of business in disaster risk reduction (DRR). The aim of the platform, which brought together a wide cross-section of the global DRR community, was to set the disaster reduction agenda for the coming two years and beyond. It was considered as a pivotal event by the United Nations in ... (More)
Southeast Asia View
by Rafidah A. Razak rafidah@csr-asia.com
Banten blames Japan Foundation for mudflowsOfficials in Banten Province have blamed the mudflows and gas emissions from two wells in Walikukun Village, in Serang Regency since last week on Japanese NGO, the Japan Foundation. Head of the Mining Office of Banten Province, Cepi Suwardi said in an inter institutional meeting the provincial administration had concluded that “as the party that funded the project the Japan Foundation ... (More)
Japan View
by Japan for Sustainability Newsletter info@japanfs.org
Elephants and sweet potatoes to feed Osaka's closed-Loop project to mitigate heat island effectsThe mayor of Osaka, Kunio Hiramatsu, announced on February 18, 2009, that the city will carry out a closed-loop project using sweet potatoes and elephants in fiscal 2009. To mitigate the urban heat island effect in summer, the city aims to green the rooftop of City Hall with sweet potato plants and use the plant vines and leaves that are ... (More)
China View
by Yoshi Ko yko@csr-asia.com
Young women drug addicts on rise in Beijing More young women were found in taking new types of drugs in Beijing as narcotics became increasingly popular in mass binges and were considered effective to help lose weight. More than half of 310 new drug takers seized by Beijing police last month were women, mostly under the age of 30, Yi Yang, deputy director of the anti-drug department of Beijing municipal public security bureau, was ... (More)