As investors, campaign groups and consumers continue to pile pressure on companies to accelerate progress towards ambitious climate goals, some of the stalwarts of sustainability reporting are beginning to look beyond traditional methods of disclosure to drive stakeholder engagement with their CSR reports.
Data on CSR spend for financial year 2014-15 shows that more than half of the India Inc firms have failed to meet their targets for the period.
To build inclusive, sustainable and productive corporate social responsibility initiatives. Industry body Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) pitched for public private collaboration to build inclusive, sustainable and productive corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives.
The government has turned to state run companies to contribute to an account that has been created to finance the Prime Minister’s pet Swachh Bharat programme. The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has sent out an advisory, asking public sector undertakings to deposit the money that they could not spend on Corporate Social Responsibility programmes …
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Corporate social responsibility spending of 33 firms listed on the NSE rose 22% year-on-year to Rs2,167 crore in fiscal 2016, according to an analysis. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) expenditure in India is rising, although it’s nowhere near prescribed levels yet, reveals a preliminary analysis of reported data culled from a third of the top 100 …
