I’m nearing the end of writing the second edition of the book ‘Corporate Responsibility: a critical introduction‘, and I’ve been reflecting on the changes since I started on the first edition in 2006. These have been years of excitement and disappointment for anyone interested in the role of business in taking on the social and [...]
So, the unthinkable happened and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (USA) has a Republican senator. Why is this so monumentous for the rest of the world? Poke a stick into the virtual world and you will find innumerable analyses of what happened – my source of info on Massachusetts (my one time home) is WBUR. But [...]
When Copenhagen winds up in a week’s time it seems pretty certain the limo we’d hoped would whisk us away to a low carbon world won’t have shown up. We may have a better idea of what a limo looks like, and we will probably know what limo companies to avoid in future. But the [...]
Up front, I am not jumping up and down about the Copenhagen Climate Summit or COP 15 as it’s called. It would be nice to have a genuine worldwide commitment on tackling climate change announced when the Summit ends on 18 December. But this has been a busy twelve months for the world’s politicians, and [...]