Corporate Social Responsibility and The Environment

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Corporate Social Responsibility and The
Environment
Created by Diana Tamics-Bahadoor Education
Against Climate Change Program of the Middlesex
University 2009
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Corporate Social Responsibility

• Understanding your business impact on the wider
  world
• Considering how you can use this impact in a
  positive way
• It means taking a responsible attitude
• Going beyond the minimum legal requirements

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Corporate Social Responsibility

• A business doesn't exist in isolation nor is
  it simply a way of making money
• The employees are depending on the business

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Corporate Social Responsibility

• Customers
• Suppliers
• Local community

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Supplying products

• The products, and the way they have been made
  have an impact on the environment
• Fairtrade improves the position of its producing
  members

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Supplier relationship

• Improving labour standards
• Material issues
• Chemicals
• Sustainable timber

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Packaging

• Efficient packaging
• Recycled materials
• Reduce plastic packaging
• Jude bags instead of plastic carrier bags
• Divert waste from landfills!

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Business and the Climate change

• Reducing carbon our footprint
• Energy use and alternative energy

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Business and the Climate change

• Reducing water consumption
• Rainwater harvesting

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Business and the Climate change
Transport

• Central distribution
• Alternative transportation
• Use of local businesses
• Choosing lower emission vehicles
• Alternative transportation by employees

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Local area Brent Cross

• Tesco
• Marks Spencer
• John Lewis
• Future regeneration of Brent Cross
• A state of-the-art waste handling and recycling
  facility
• Power plant to provide electricity and heating

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References

• businesslink.gov.uk 05/11/09 14.00 pm
• http//www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/home?r
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• Free rain 05/11/09 15.30pm
• http//www.freerain.co.uk/
• Frairtrade foundation 05/11/09 15.20pm
• http//www.fairtrade.org.uk/
• My Brent Cross 05/11/09 17.00pm
• http//www.brentcross.co.uk/