Our focus will be Environmental Resources Management (ERM), the company that is currently being paid by BP to carry out deeply flawed and allegedly independent Environmental and Social Impact Assessment work for its planned Baku-Ceyhan pipeline. (There's plenty of info about the Baku Ceyhan Campaign to prevent public money being used to pay for this project at www.bakuceyhan.org.uk)

ERM is Gold Sponsor of the entire conference, which features speakers from ethical firebrands and environmental market leaders such as British American Tobacco, Shell, Rio Tinto, GlaxoSmithKline, Premier Oil and Bayer. ERM is also running a workshop on the Friday morning titled 'Managing stakeholder dialogue programmes', covering topics like 'when is it a bad idea to engage' and 'how do you decide what feedback to use and what not to?' We'll be there for at least a couple of hours to let them know that we're onto their highly remunerative scam of greenwashing enormously damaging projects like Baku-Ceyhan, thus allowing them to get the crucial public funding they require. We'll also be there to reject outright the concept of the 'ethical corporation', not to mention 'Corporate Social Responsibility'.

London Rising Tide (LRT), which isn't part of the Baku Ceyhan Campaign, has nonetheless been taking direct action to stop the pipeline for almost a year now, including an impact assessment-cum-occupation of ERM's London office last year. It's most ambitious and visual plan to date will be the Carnival Against Oil Wars and Climate Chaos outside BP's AGM at the Royal Festival Hall on April 24th (www.burningplanet.net)

Contact us at  london@risingtide.org.uk or write to
c/o 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES
More on the Rising Tide UK network: www.risingtide.org.uk
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More on the conference:

Places are selling out fast for the Ethical Corporation
Europe 2003 Conference, "Managing Corporate Responsibility"
which takes place on April 9,10,11 2003 in London.

This is your opportunity to question the leaders in corporate responsibility
on the key issues for practice, strategy and implementation

With 65 expert presenters and speakers from:

Shell Chemicals, MTV Networks International, Hermes Pensions Management,
WWF-UK, Anglo American, Rio Tinto, Standard and Poors, Telefonica, Norsk
Hydro, Innovest, FTSE, Coca-Cola Great Britain, Morley Fund Management,
Co-operative Insurance Society, Bayer AG, HSBC Investment Bank, Chiquita, BHP Billiton,
Dow Europe, British American Tobacco, Johnson & Johnson, National Grid
Transco, BAA, BNP Paribas Asset Management, Storebrand Investments, Skanska, Premier
Oil, British Telecommunications, Warwick Business School, Amnesty International,
PRWeek, United Nations Development Programme Nigeria, Overseas Development Institute
UK, The Body Shop, Henderson Global Investors, UK Department for International
Development, United Nations Volunteers Nigeria, The Ethical Trading Initiative, The
Environment Council, Forum for the Future, Corporate Culture, AccountAbility, Core Ratings

The format for the event will be of keynote presentations, interactive discussion panels,
breakout groups and workshops over 3 days with more than 15 hours of Q&A and
more than 12 hours of built in networking time, this is the place to meet and
discuss the key issues.

Discussed will be the key management issues in corporate responsibility:

- Stakeholder dialogue process and management.
- Measuring consumer perspectives.
- Internal communications in multinationals.
- Embedding an effective code of conduct across a multinational
- NGO partnerships. What you need to know about choosing NGOs
- Managing effective community relations in developing countries
- Advanced social and environmental reporting
- Discover what investors and regulators are now demanding
- Hear from those leading the way how you can best manage
- Learn how to measure and manage corporate reputation
- Get the message across - find out how you can most effectively

April 9 will be a day of training workshops from Warwick CCU,
AccountAbility and Good Business. April 10-11 will be the two
conference days featuring over 60 expert speakers! More details
on the April 9 workshops are at:

 http://www.ethicalcorp.com
/europeworkshops

Download the conference brochure for the event at:
 http://www.ethicalcorp.com/

View the conference programme and speakers at:
 http://www.ethic
alcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=302

Register before March 31 for $$$ savings - call us for details on:

+44 (0) 207 375 7561 Or email
 info@ethicalcorp.com
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