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Ethical Corporation Podcast
CSR-related podcasts
- Extended podcast: Petrobras on award winning sustainability reporting, ISO 26000, biofuels and business strategy
Ethical Corporation's Toby Webb interviews Ana Carvalho, co-ordinator of social and environmental strategy at Petrobras, and asks senior Petrobras executive Antonio Santana about biofuels strategy at the company. - Podcast series on shipping, sustainability, piracy and globalisation (Part 6)
Day 6 - Arrival at Mailiao Port, Taiwan - Paul and Sam wrap up with some final impressions of their voyage, life at sea and the future of international shipping. - Podcast series on shipping, sustainability, piracy and globalisation (Part 5)
Day 5 - Into the Taiwan Straits - Paul and Sam discuss the seeming improvements in the relationship between Taiwan and Mainland China, Taiwan's oil dependency and the future for the long troubled cross-Straits relationship. - Podcast series on shipping, sustainability, piracy and globalisation (Part 4)
Day 4 - Off the coast of Luzon Island (Philippines) - Paul and Sam discuss the current issue of the criminalisation of ship crews, the security arrangements at Basra Port that criminalise crews and the problems with arriving at American ports and how ship owners and crews live with the effects of the War on Terror at sea. - Podcast series on shipping, sustainability, piracy and globalisation (Part 3)
Day 3 - Vietnam to the Southern Philippines - Paul and Sam ponder just how crowded the international sea lanes are in East Asia, fresh water shortages and direct pollution into the oceans. - Podcast series on shipping, sustainability, piracy and globalisation (Part 2)
Day 2 - Along the Vietnam Coast - Paul and Sam make their way up the long Vietnamese coast discussing issues affecting seafarers such as wages and the shortage of crews at the moment as well as health and safety aboard an oil tanker. - Podcast series on shipping, sustainability, piracy and globalisation (Part 1)
Day 1 - Singapore to the Riau Islands (Indonesia) - Paul and Sam sail close to the Riau Islands, a major cluster of pirates, and discuss the issue of piracy on the High Seas and pollution issues related to oil tankers. - Retail in China - Tesco leads while Carrefour drags its heels
Ethical Corporation's China editor Paul French talks about the gaps opening up in Chinese retailing when it comes to sustainability - Whatever happened to the Dongtan eco-city?
Ethical Corporation editors Toby Webb and Paul French discuss one of their favourite topics: the non-event that is the development of the Dongtan eco city near Shanghai - Doing business in Zimbabwe, China post-Olympics, and UK Climate change rules
Ethical Corporation's editors discuss some of the big ethical business issues discussed in the forthcoming September edition of the magazine, due out in late August. - Greenpeace podcast: Mandatory corporate climate change reporting 'on the way'
Gerd Leipold, boss of Greenpeace International, explains why increased environmental reporting regulation is simply inevitable for larger companies. - Podcast: Shell on the new sustainability report
Roxanne Decyk, Corporate Affairs Director of Royal Dutch / Shell Petroleum Company, talks about Shell's reporting, investments in renewables and Canada's oil sands and the potential of algae for tackling climate change. - Podcast Brazil: Balancing Natura with nature
Alessandro Carlucci, CEO of Brazilian cosmetics giant Natura, talks about his company's challenges with forestry and Natura's inescapable need for petrochemicals. - The state of corporate social responsibility in Central Europe and Russia
Ethical Corporation editors John Russell and Toby Webb discuss the state of responsible business in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. - The potential of low carbon coffee to help small farmers
Chris Wille, head of sustainable agriculture for the Rainforest alliance, believes social and environmental issues are colliding with better management practices to offer significant returns for both buyers of ethics related products and farmers themselves. - What is social business?
John Russell and Toby Webb, editors of Ethical Corporation magazine, discuss the meaning of social business and ask - does it reallly matter that much? This podcast is about eleven minutes long. - Disaster relief in Africa: All about creating local jobs
David Dickie, CEO of AdvanceAid, an UK NGO, discusses how setting up sustainable disaster response mechanisms in Africa is closely linked with doing what business does best: creating jobs. He also outlines how large companies can contribute themselves to tackling the problem. - Corporate social responsibility in Ukraine: Accelerating after a slow start
System Capital Management (SCM) is Ukraine's largest company, representing some 8% of national gross domestic product. The firm is the widely acknowledged leader in considering responsible business in modern Ukraine. Jock Mendoza-Wilson, director of international and investor relations at the company, speaks with EC's Toby Webb about how thinking around corporate responsibility is improving in the country and within SCM's business units. - Should oil companies be signing deals in Iraq?
Natural resource expert and author Daniel Litvin discusses the investments in Iraqi oil by smaller extractive firms, and suggests the rush to do deals could contribute to de-stabilising Iraq. - The state of CSR and climate change reporting in Asia
Glenn Frommer, head of sustainable development at MTR Corporation, the Asian railway company and leading sustainabilty reporter, offers some insight into trends in sustainable development and climate change reporting in Asia. - 2012 Olympics and Sustainability Progress
George Kazantzopoulos, a member of the support and environment commission of the International Olympic Committee, discusses the 2012 Olympics and sustainability progress. - Why Total should stay in Burma
Standfirst: Former British Ambassador to Thailand Derek Tonkin argues that oil and gas companies Total and Unocal should remain in Burma, known to some as Myanmar