This article presents a vision for corporate sustainability and highlights how organisations can add value to not only their bottom line but also to the environment and society at large. With current examples of organisations putting their corporate sustainability strategy into action, this article provides a run down of who’s doing what and the skills and people required to initiate and maintain the drive to a low carbon economy.  Highlighting the increase in auditing and tighter…

IMPACT CSR Solutions and AlSadd Football Club on Sep 8th have jointly announcing a strategic cooperation agreement to set up Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects utilizing the popularity of football.

Such a step has been taken based on the unique position as the first and the only fully integrated CSR solutions' agency which dedicated to…

Continuing its tradition of giving and helping the community during Ramadan, HSBC has organised five initiatives, from iftar[1] to food packing, fundraising and charity collections, to help the poor and less fortunate celebrate Ramadan in the United Arab Emirates this year. HSBC staff will be volunteering about 1,000 hours this Ramadan to make these activities a success.

Abdulfattah Sharaf, Chief…

Dear all,



I hope you are all well. Firstly I would like to wish you all Ramadan Kareem and hope this month is a peaceful one for all. Second of all, I wanted to let you know that I have decided to take up a personal challenge which I hope you can help me with.



Seeing I have now been based in Dubai for nearly 3 years, I would like to give back to the community that has given me so much and have therefore signed up for the Gulf for Good (UAE registered charity)…

Edited by Stefan MacAskill, Jr. Sustainability Associate at KEO

This article, published in popular science magazine, illustrates a concept design for a green tower or ‘live in power plant’ for the Dubai skyline. The tower has the ability to produce up to 10MW of…

ISTANBUL / TURKEY : At the present day, it is expected from companies to reduce their negative social and environmental impact while having their operations and to take proactive role in sustainable development. Therefore, may be the most important task of the youth, who are the decision makers of the future,  , is to be interested with the sustainability  challenges in a  professional way.…

AMMAN / JORDAN Driven by its corporate social responsibility commitment and in collaboration with the Greater Amman Municipality, Grand Hyatt Amman has recently adopted one of the city’s public parks in Wadi Saqra.

Grand Hyatt Amman's…

Nuqul Group’s employees renovate its adopted schools in Al Koura in collaboration with INJAZ Organization

Amman – July 2011

With the closure of schools and beginning of the summer break, Nuqul Group’s employees organized a school maintenance drive in Al Koura district building on the Group’s partnership with INJAZ organization that aims at enhancing the educational environment in the area.

In collaboration with…

 I like to offer briefs on my own efforts to promote motivations in the young to work for innovations more for Social Enterprising than making self or other rich richer. Their unselfish efforts can allow affordable micro-generators for majorities of homes and small businesses. Our target must allow more and more of the end-users100% freedom from depending on Thermoelectric that are generated by burning of deadly fossil or nuclear fuels.

Shortage of very large quantity of…

Elia Nuqul Foundation (ENF) organizes an Internship and Employment Awareness Workshop for its scholars

Amman - June 2011

Building on its previous workshops, and aiming at creating awareness, educating, motivating, providing various skills to improve employability opportunities for its scholars, the Elia Nuqul Foundation (ENF) held an internship and employment awareness workshop for its scholars and graduates at Nuqul Group’s premises.

The…

ArtMedium Projects, a division under ArtMedium, an arts management company based in Jordan, is launching a campaign under the name Green Art Project (May – July 2011).

The campaign targets the general Jordanian public, aimed to raise awareness about environmental issues we face locally. The communications of this campaign revolve around using art as a…

Working in the field of CSR for many years we have realised that CSR is only part of the journey. To achieve all the positive impact desired along with long term results organizations should focus more on their sustainbility journey and not just their CSR. CSR is a great stepping stone to get them to where they want to be but there is always more room for improvement. . Come and join this discussion at the CGR Forum :)

We are running the popular 'Creating Value through Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Management - The Why, The What and The How' again in June. 

This is what some of our participants have said:

"The course has really clarified many of the grey areas and challenges I face on sustainability in general and reporting in particular. The trainer is impressive and has excellent knowledge of the subject." Wael Al Anezi, Marketing Specialist,National Water…

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