Social responsibility – not just a Western phenomenon

Focus on CSR is far from just a Western welfare phenomenon, and luckily there are plenty of opportunities to exchange experiences and gain an overview of the many different practises across countries and cultures.

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A World of Sustainable Ideas

CSI can strengthen your business. Web 2.0 technologies are creating new opportunities for collaboration and development. Collaborative co-creation is a crucial cornerstone.

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When CSR became tangible, we got a common global language

If you do not weigh and measure your CSR work, you underestimate the value of decent behaviour – both in terms of the bottom line and your reputation.

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A new compass is born

Yet another compass is added to the series of web based tools with the purpose to make it easier for Danish companies to work with CSR and at the same time benefit the business.

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Corporate social responsibility 2.0

Involvement and interaction are keys to social responsibility 2.0. CSR must be part of the corporate DNA and not an add-on. To borrow Friedman’s well-known phrase: The business of business is business! And that is exactly the philosophy of MYC4.

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Don’t Waste A Good Crisis

Don’t waste a good crisis: it is a challenge, it is pain, and of course with many losers. But it should also be seen as an opportunity: to revitalize and even reinvent ourselves, to sharpen our fundamental values, to develop new priorities and opportunities, to build new coalitions.

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Requiring transparency from all our companies

The Global Reporting Initiative – provider of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework – welcomes the leadership Denmark is taking on sustainability reporting. GRI Deputy Chief Executive Teresa Fogelberg explains why.

Spring is here, and I look forward to the light May evenings on the shores of Copenhagen. On May 14, I will be at the national conference entitled Responsible growth – the answer in a time of crisis – hosted by Lene Espersen, the Danish Minister of Economic and Business Affairs.

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CSR in a time of crisis

Danish businesses are often praised as being among the best in the world at exercising social and environmental responsibility.

In my position as Minister for Economic and Business Affairs, it is also my clear impression that Danish businesses take social responsibility seriously and know how to use it actively to add value within their business and to society. This impression is backed up by studies showing that over half of Danish businesses work with corporate social responsibility (CSR).

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