Here’s a sneak preview of our new print issue, due out in a week. In November's edition we’re analysing moves by Pfizer, Google, Tesco, Starbucks, the Eco Mafia, the FSC, Tuna, Green & Blacks, General Electric and Coca-Cola. To name a few. Plus we're looking at climate change on trial, and how companies embed corporate responsibility in their businesses
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What's in the news analysis section of the November 2009 issue
Pfizer: A major fraud settlement
• There’s been a $2bn settlement with US regulators as Pfizer was promoting four drugs not licensed for use. What is the background to this story?
• How did it happen, what did the news coverage miss?
• Are there implications for other pharma companies?
• Anyone else likely to be prosecuted?
Google: World domination?
• Google’s new deal to make books available for download is another area where the company is heading for being the world leader.
• What are the ethical implications of Google’s seemingly unstoppable rise to controlling our lives (with brief background to their market dominance in web search and other online products)?
• What are the implications of this?
• Can Google and other web companies be controlled/regulated? Should they be?
Tesco: zero waste to landfill
• Tesco has met its pledge to keep all waste from UK operations from going to landfill.
• How has it managed this and what can others learn from the achievements? How has it worked, exactly?
• Are there any downsides to how this has been achieved?
Climate change on trial
• The US Chamber of Commerce is trying to force the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a public hearing on the evidence for human impact on climate.
• Why is the chamber trying to do this?
• What would be the implications of a judgement either way?
• How is big business responding to the Chamber?
Features section
UK coffee chains and fairtrade/sustainability marques
(includes a 500 word interview with UK head of Starbucks)
• Review and analysis of the UK high street coffee chains and their sustainable practices.
• Which brand is involved with which certification scheme and why? What are the pros and cons of the schemes?
• Can customers differentiate between the schemes (or do they even care?)
Banks and sustainability
• One year on from Lehman’s collapse, which banks are the leaders in sustainability and ethics?
• What difference has being publicly owned made?
• Have the banks that stayed in the private sector changed?
• Who’s who in banks and sustainability.
The Eco mafia
• Criminals are making millions from (eg) dumping waste illegally, over-fishing, fraudulently obtaining CDM credits
• How big are the organisations and what are they into?
• Can they be stopped and how? Is anyone doing something about it?
• Groups States Against Corruption and UN office against drugs and crime.
Forest Stewardship Council
• A year ago Friends of the Earth withdrew support for FSC certification.
• Background to how FSC works, its history, etc.
• Is FSC failing? What is the evidence?
• If so, what are the ramifications? Who depends on it?
• What is the best alternative, if there is one?
Strategy and management section
Sustainable and unsustainable Tuna
• What’s the future for the sandwich shop favourite?
• Are there sustainable tuna stocks? Skipjack?
• The Pret A Manger tuna ban – that wasn’t. What happened and why?
Lessons from embedding CR report
Climate change and biochar
Green & Black’s – the biochar debate. The latest trend in carbon capture, or is it a waste of renewable timber that could be used for biomass power/energy?
Review section
GE’s Corporate citizenship report
Coca-Cola sustainability report
Round up of the latest books on corporate responsibility
Academic news – new papers from the business schools
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