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Contents
“High Cost of Low Price”
Corporate Social Responsibility
Non-Governmental Organization
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Best Practice & Sustainable Development
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Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility
• CSR, also called corporate conscience, corporate citizenship,
social performance, or sustainable responsible business is a
form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business
model. The goal is to embrace responsibility for the
company's actions and encourage a positive impact through
its activities on the environment, consumers, employees,
communities, stakeholders and all other members of the
public sphere.
- Wikipedia
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• "Profit" is the economic value created.
• "People” pertains to fair and beneficial business
practices toward labour and the community and region in
which a corporation conducts its business.
• "Planet" refers to sustainable environmental practices.
Benefiting the natural order as much as possible or at the
least do no harm and curtail environmental impact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line#Definition
Triple Bottom Line
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“High Cost of Low Price”
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Behind the Fame - Human Trafficking
Behind the Growth – Global Warming &
Pollution Crisis
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This boy is working with his parents at a small jeans workshop in Dadun
Village in Xintang. He earns 0.15 yuan for snipping loose thread ends off
one pair of jeans; in one day he can do about 200 pairs.
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http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/stories/toxics/2010/textile-pollution-xintang-gurao/
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Workers at a jeans factory must search through wastewater every
morning to scoop out the stones, which are washed with the fabric in
industrial washing machines to make stonewash denim.
http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/news/stories/toxics/2010/textile-pollution-xintang-gurao/
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Video
VIDEO CASE
Dirty Secrets Behind Jeans
Jeans Waste Pollution in Arica
“The jeans are fashionable and worn by almost everybody, but very few
people are aware of what goes into making a pair of blue jeans. The
environmental impacts on China’s Pearl River Delta are severe, as blue
dye from factories and manufacturers gets pumped into the nearby river.”
http://www.chrisd.ca/blog/23143/blue-jeans-water-dye-china-manufacturing-industry-pearl-river-delta-pollution-video/
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• “Sustainable development is a pattern of resources use, that
aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment
so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but
also for generations to come.”
- Brundtland Commission ,1987
• “Development that meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
own needs.“
-World Commission on Environment & Development
Concept of Sustainable Development
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• ISO SR26000 – Launched on November 1,2010 - A voluntary
guidance standard focused on seven principles of social
responsibility : Accountability, Transparency, Ethical
behaviour, Stakeholder interests, Rule of law, International
norms of behaviour, Human rights.
• The Government of Canada strongly encourages Canadian
companies and other organizations to align their operations
and practices with the guidance provided in it.
ISO New Standards on CSR
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• Non-governmental organization, or NGO,
defined by the World Bank as "private
organizations that pursue activities to relieve
suffering, promote the interests of the poor,
protect the environment, provide basic social
services, or undertake community development"
• Internationally operating NGOs is estimated at
40,000.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization
NGO Definition
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Social ills needed to be addressed other than by the
state
NGOs emerge to deliver the programs and processes
• To respond to new emerging public policy issues.
E.g. Climate changes, GMOs
• To offer a public way of engaging in dialogue with
powerful stakeholders
• To act as a channel of public opinion
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Why NGO
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Financing - Foundations
Over 100,000 US private foundations generate more than $US
60 billion per year spread over a large array of environmental
and social initiatives.
Foundations are a major funding source of forest initiatives in
Canada
There is increasing inter-foundation collaboration as
environmental and social problems become global
Relationship between governments and foundations are
complex and increasingly important
Foundations have identified climate change has a major
environmental concern
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“Conserving is not about BC, it is
about the planet… The fact that
we have a lot of resources should
motivate us to conserve them,
and to be an example for others.”
-Steve Nash
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Readings posted on Moodle:
• The 2010 Global Thought Leader survey on Sustainability
• Starbucks™ Shared Planet™ - Global Responsibility
Report 2009
More Videos:
• Export Pollution
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/12/21/world/asia/choki
ng_on_growth_9.html#story3
• China Blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVWZSZJBkMc
Human race is at risk from the danger of climate changeEconomic growth will soon come up against the limits of resource availability.
The business for the whole humanbeing.
since the early 1990s, Nike has faced scrutiny for its labour practices. It was blamed of making its products in developing countries which have very cheap labor and lack of human rights appeal . In doing this it has made greater margins on the cost of mere cents to its workers.
They’re fashionable and worn by almost everybody, but very few people are aware of what goes into making a pair of blue jeans. The environmental impacts on China’s Pearl River Delta are severe, as blue dye from factories and manufacturers gets pumped into the nearby river.
Xintang Guangdong China
They’re fashionable and worn by almost everybody, but very few people are aware of what goes into making a pair of blue jeans. The environmental impacts on China’s Pearl River Delta are severe, as blue dye from factories and manufacturers gets pumped into the nearby river.
sustainable development is development that takes the impact on the environment into account and tries to minimize environmental damage.
Http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/csr-rse.nsf/eng/rs00583.htmlInternational Organization of standardizationISO 9000 quality management systemsISO 26000 Guidance on social responsibility
One of the earliest mentions of the term "NGO" was in 1945 when the UN was created. The UN introduced the term "NGO" to distinguish between the participation of international private organizations and intergovernmental specialized agencies.
(CEGN) is a membership group of private, community, public and corporate foundations, and government and corporate funding programs that give grants in support of the Canadian environment.