Category Archives: Corporate Governance

Speech: The launch of the BBC’s internal sustainability action plan – ‘The Difference’

Posted on November 1, 2010 by tomburke

TweetShareI spoke at the launch of the BBC’s sustainability strategy and action plan The Difference, which was held in November 2010. Follow this link to watch my talk.

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Tom Burke’s political commentary: The risks that mining can’t dig its way out of

Posted on October 26, 2010 by tomburke

TweetShareENDS Report 429, p. 52, October 2010. With its big environmental impacts and need for huge upfront investments, the global mining industry needs political and policy stability more than ever before. I was in Western Australia in early October. I … Continue reading →

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Tom Burke’s political commentary: corporate culture, risk and responsibility: navigating the abyss

Posted on September 28, 2010 by tomburke

TweetShareENDS Report 428, p. 54, September 2010. BP’s analysis of what caused the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico sounds uncomfortable echoes of the US military’s reaction to events at Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq war. Corporate and … Continue reading →

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Mining in the twenty first century

Posted on February 28, 2008 by tomburke

TweetSharePublished in Rio Tinto’s Review magazine, in February 2008. Mining coastal dunes for mineral sands is one of the most environmentally controversial of all forms of mining as the public furores over Saint Lucia and Madagascar make clear.  Yet, as can … Continue reading →

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Climate Risk

Posted on May 26, 2006 by tomburke

TweetShareWritten for publication in May 2006. Climate change will be the dominant issue of the 21st Century. There is now consensus within the scientific community that not only is the problem caused by human activities but that it is more … Continue reading →

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Performance and value

Posted on October 1, 2005 by tomburke

TweetSharePublished in Environmental Finance, in October 2005. A constellation of factors have led to environmental and social performance becoming an increasingly important factor in shaping a company’s value. This places the issue of how to assess that performance much higher … Continue reading →

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Corporate Social Responsibility debate with Joel Bakan

Posted on March 1, 2005 by tomburke

TweetShareThe Ecologist published my debate with Joel Bakan in March 2005, discussing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). My four contributions to the debate can be downloaded (pdf) by following this link, and the whole debate can be accessed by logging into the online … Continue reading →

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Corporate responsibility and accountability

Posted on April 11, 2003 by tomburke

TweetSharePublished in The Observer, in April 2003. Vultures are ugly birds. A powerful evolutionary logic seems to have ensured that form followed function with an uncanny precision. The sight of a large number of British and American companies squabbling over … Continue reading →

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