Many federal program managers say their agencies are giving high priority to green issues, and even more take green steps at home, according to a recent survey. But actual implementation of green initiatives at the office is a different story.

38% of respondents say they are "many years away" from introducing changes to reduce their carbon footprint. A third say they will do so in the next one to two years.

This new reports says that corporate boards can and should influence their companies social and environmental performances.

Shareholder engagement prompted Ford to create a detailed plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its vehicle fleet by 30 percent by 2020.

Shareholder engagement prompted Ford to create a detailed plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its vehicle fleet by 30 percent by 2020.

Hosted by BSR, this one-hour teleconference featured the perspectives of business and NGO leaders from GE, The Coca-Cola Company (China).

John Hutton, business secretary, has urged Ofgem, the energy regulator, to address the "lack of transparency" in the accounts of Britain's big companies, which he claims damages the reputation of the industry and confuses the public.

He also believes the failure of some big integrated energy companies to record separately their profits in generation and retail means potential new entrants to the market do not have the data they need, holding back competition.

"The environment is not being taken very seriously in most of the emerging markets, because we haven't started feeling the pressure yet," Adan Mohamed, chief executive of Barclays Bank Kenya, said. "But it has got to be addressed and it is up to us corporates to lead that."

Taxpayers shouldn’t have to subsidize corporate tax dodgers or bloated CEO salaries.

A recent Government Accountability Office study found that two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005. These same companies reported trillions of dollars in earnings.

What’s the hustle? A U.S. corporation pretends to make all of its profits at a subsidiary based in a place like the Grand Cayman Islands that has no corporate income tax. Meanwhile, the U.S. branch of the company reports only losses. No U.S. profits, no taxes.

According to a new report by my organization, the Institute for Policy Studies, and United for a Fair Economy, average U.S. taxpayers subsidize executive compensation to the tune of more than $20 billion per year.