UN Global Compact Leaders Summit: Nine of ten major companies say that their social responsibility is increasing
(Geneva, July 4th 2007): Companies' social responsibility is on the increase. This is asserted by nine out of ten major companies in the large-scale CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) survey covering Sweden's 500 largest companies, carried out by the Swedish business magazine Veckans Affärer and Save the Children, Sweden (see attachment). Consequently 68 percent of them intend to increase their investment in CSR.The most important issue is the climate (81 percent work with this), followed by being a good employer (78 percent) and gender equality (51 percent), in addition one in three