What is the Lord Mayor’s ‘Restoring trust in the City’ initiative all about? Corporate governance adviser Richard Sermon, who was Chairman of the Advisory Board of the previous Lord Mayor of London’s initiative, spells out a seven-point plan.

Senior Indian and Japanese business executives discussed the balance between economic growth and human responsibility, when they met at the sixth annual conference of Caux Initiatives for Business (CIB), Asia Pacific regional group. The conference, on ‘Making growth sustainable’, took place at Asia Plateau, the Initiatives of Change conference centre in Panchgani, Maharashtra, from 19 to 23 November.

Yahaya Ahmed from Nigeria has pioneered a cooking stove to fight the encroachment of the desert and climate change. It is also helps to combat communal tensions. He told his story to Michael Smith at a recent conference on 'trust and integrity in the global economy' in Caux, Switzerland.

Can businesses thrive by doing the right thing? Swiss business woman Jane Royston gives an emphatic yes. She talked to Michael Smith at the recent conference on 'Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy', held in Caux, Switzerland, 2 to 8 August.

Creating a sustainable future is the leadership challenge of our time, for Göran Carstedt, the Chairman of the Natural Step International. With the experience of senior positions in IKEA and Volvo, he is one of Europe’s most prominent business leaders and a leading advocate of sustainability. He was giving a ‘Caux Lecture’ at the ‘Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy’ conference in the Initiatives of Change centre in Caux, Switzerland, this evening. ‘A sustainable future has to be seen as desirable,’ the good news is that all the necessary ingredients to succeed are within our grasp, the Swedish business leader suggested.

‘Vested interests and the power of the financial lobby seem to have won the day, and nothing seems to have really changed,’ said Paul Moore, the former head of group regulatory risk at Halifax Bank of Scotland HBOS, internationally known as ‘the HBOS whistle-blower’. He was speaking at the opening of the ‘Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy’ conference in the Initiatives of Change centre in Caux, Switzerland, this evening. A far-reaching reform agenda of the financial system needed to be backed by an ‘Arab Spring’ of public opinion, he said.

Against the backdrop of the economic crisis in Greece and its impact on the EU economies and the US debt ceiling debacle, the conference, entitled, ‘Trust and integrity in the global economy’ will explore ways to help create a just and equitable global economy.

Get the culture right and trust in journalism will be restored argues Michael Smith, executive director of the media ethics think-tank The International Communications Forum.

Women leaders, from the business and not-for-profit sectors in Scotland, will meet at the Hub, Royal Mile, Edinburgh on 15th June 2011. The intention is to co-create a long-term programme to support and inspire women leaders to play a more proactive part in transforming the leadership landscape in Scotland and beyond.

Bob Doherty, head of the business school at Liverpool Hope University, told how social enterprises are transforming the lives of farmers in developing countries, when he addressed a Greencoat Forum on ‘the role of social entrepreneurship in tackling poverty’ on 17 May. He was speaking in IofC’s London centre alongside Gavin McGillivray, head of the Private Sector Department at the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), and Tania Ellis, a specialist in social business trends and author of The New Pioneers.