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“The planet cannot afford delays, excuses or more greenwashing”, said The Hon Catherine McKenna, chair of the United Nations High-level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities in the UN report “Integrity matters”. This latest statement from the UN adds to the growing pressure pushing businesses from voluntary initiatives to regulatory…
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A combination of forthcoming legislation, increasing investor demands and societal pressure means that a business’s value chain is coming under closer scrutiny. GoodCorporation’s latest Business Ethics Debate at the House of Lords sought to explore the approaches businesses are taking when conducting due diligence across their value chains. Hosted by Baroness Neville-Jones, the debate was…
What is a code of conduct and why is it important? A code of conduct is a publicly available, written document that sets out your organisation’s values, rules, standards and principles. Although mainly aimed at employees, an effective code of conduct should also guide your relations with suppliers, business partners, investors and contractors, embodying the…
Engineering is a profession that generally evokes high levels of trust – which is indeed borne out in the 2022 Ipsos Veracity Index in which engineers came second only to nurses in the rankings. However, with the sixth anniversary of the horrific Grenfell disaster last week, and high-profile fraud and corruption cases hitting the headlines…
Research from GoodCorporation revealed that there has been a fifty percent increase in the number of FTSE 100 companies updating their codes of conduct since the pandemic. Our latest 2023 House of Lords debate sought to investigate this rise, questioning why it has occurred, how changes have been implemented and whether other companies should be…
With the increase in emerging human rights legislation, notably the proposed EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDD) Directive which is likely to impact UK businesses with operations in Europe, the new Norwegian Transparency Act, the German Supply Chain Act and others, GoodCorporations’s first Business Ethics Debate of 2023 explored how companies should respond to emerging…
Bennett Freeman Associate Fellow of Chatham House shares his opening remarks at GoodCorporation’s Business Ethics Debate on ‘The changing pace of human rights legislation and what this means for business‘. It is an honor to be with Baroness Young of Hornsey, one of the great champions of social and racial justice in modern Britain as…
The start of 2023 has been overshadowed by significant economic fallout from the Ukraine war and the continuing impacts on supply-chains from China’s slow opening up, political concerns about China, the lingering impacts of Covid and, for us in the UK, Brexit. For ethics and compliance officers there is so much going on that it…
