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Title: Environmental responsibility and business styles : ethical and theological perspectives
Other Titles: Business styles and sustainable development
Authors: Agius, Emmanuel
Keywords: Environmental responsibility
Environmental ethics
Responsibility
Corporations -- Moral and ethical aspects
Business mortality
Issue Date: 2008
Publisher: Fondazione Lanza
Citation: Agius, E. (2008). Environmental responsibility and business styles : ethical and theological perspectives. In L. Mariani, M. Mascia & D. Signorini (Eds), Business styles and sustainable development (pp. 19-43). Roma: Fondazione Lanza.
Abstract: Among the many important lessons learned between the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio and the Summit in Johannesburg is the recognition that efforts to correct socioeconomic systems that adversely affect our life-supporting environment will not work without meaningful inclusion of the business community. At the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the role of business in sustainable development was poorly understood. The 2002 Johannesburg Earth Summit marks a quantum leap in business thinking on environmental issues! It was also a historic opportunity to further the role of business in advancing sustainable development. In fact, this Summit was characterized by a widespread recognition that unless business joins in partnership and works together with other actors including the government and the civil society, there will be no lasting and effective solutions to environmental degradation. The corporate world was well prepared for Johannesburg. Hundreds of international firms sent their top management to participate in the various events - and offer their views and good faith to liberate economic growth from pollution and social decay. In fact, a statement issued by the leading members of the World Busiess Council for Sustainable Development - a group including the heads of Dupont, Dow, BP, Shell, Norsk Hydro, Ontario Power Generation, Toyota and others - reads as follows: "We feel a responsibility... to restate our vision of the relationships between responsible companies and the goal of sustainable human progress". [Excerpt]
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/95348
ISBN: 8877062290
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