Sentence examples for ethical schemes from inspiring English sources

Add the fact that investing in social or ethical schemes can also pay you attractive returns and you have a powerful proposition.

Fairtrade, started in Britain 25 years ago by development and consumer groups including Oxfam and the Women's Institute, has grown into one of the world's most trusted ethical schemes, with 1.24 million farmers and workers around the world.

"Today we would not define as an ethical scheme a code of morality that could legitimate injustice  — racial or class," he wrote.

Until now, the Fairtrade mark could only be used on chocolate bars which source all possible ingredients, such as sugar, vanilla and cocoa, from farms certified under the ethical scheme.

Mr Parrott says most ethical stakeholder schemes should be available on a group or individual basis although there is sometimes less choice for individuals.

They are regulated by the same authorities that oversee banks and building societies; however, as they are run for the benefit of members, not shareholders, they can offer ethical saving schemes, competitive loans and other financial products not usually available to people excluded from traditional financial institutions.

The reliance on trust is perhaps most evident in "ethical" certification schemes due to the contested normative and affective nature of their environmental and social claims.

In 2014 sales of Fairtrade goods fell for the first time since the ethical trading scheme was founded 20 years ago as cash-strapped consumers tightened their belts.

The other big news is that the couple have signed up for an ethical volunteering scheme to build a school in Uganda later in the year.

8/10 Disappointingly, this is the only tea of the eight that is not Fairtrade or part of a competing ethical trading scheme.

Sales of Fairtrade goods have fallen for the first time since the ethical trading scheme was founded 20 years ago as cash-strapped consumers tighten their belts.