Ethics and corporate social responsibility issues

Chapter 2 : Ethics and corporate social responsibility issues

Ethics is related to the value of the company, it’s whats you want to fight for, example of ethical values :

being respectful of human right

Respectful of the earth, pollution

1 - Environmental ethics (pollution control, conservation of deplorable resources)

Depletable ressources = ressources épuisables

these problems includes :

global climate change

Worldwide loss of biodiversity

Forests and wetlands

Long-range transport of toxic substances

Decline of coastal ocean quality

Degradation of the world’s freshwater and ecological systems

Pollution - air pollution

These new threats raise critical new ethical questions fro the human race

1. Non governmental organization

Example of WWF - world wild life

«  Our mission is to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature »

For this :

they work to conserve and restore biodiversity

Reduce humanity’s environmental footprint

Ensure sustainable use of natural resources to support current and future generations

Link with business :

They need the scientific to work about the project

Document : business case about seafood sector

Why the seafood industry has a bad impact on environment ?

Bad impact for the environment and the people :

Overexploitation of fishing stock, sudden growth of production because there are more and more demand, fish is a exhaustive resources

Threats for specie, protect species

Water pollution

Destruction of marine ecosystem

But there is also a risk for the industry itself

Explain the link between environment and economic performance

If there are not enough production to sell, the industry is not going to sell anything.

You have to change the way you are doing business with the fish if we want to continue to have the industry in the future otherwise they would not have enough fish to feed everyone.

It can have a bad impact on their reputation because of the pollution they may accentuate in the oceans.

Could you explain other consequences of a non sustainable industry ?

reputational risk

Market risk

Regulatory risk

What are the solutions ?

implementing best practice

Full chain digital traceability

Long term contracts

Aggregation and integration

Collaborative industry platforms

Advocacy for good governance

Document : Greta Thunberg

How Greta Thunberg became a model for a whole generation ?

Because she began striking at 16 years old, at first she was alone and post something on the internet so then others people from high school start doing this all around the world

An activist from Greenpeace came

She said she will strike all Fridays until Sweden aligned with the Paris agreement

She didn’t became a model because she was young, but because it was the great time do do it as it was the time of the COP

Why did she decide to get involved in the fight against climate change ?

Because of her teacher who show her class a video about climate change

3) What do you think about this impact ? Who joined Greta Thunberg?

More and more people are aware of the situation, impact of the opinion of the population all around the world

Actually it’s important to impact the customers opinion in a company

Since cop21 ethereally decide to take decisions

4) Find some figures about the climate change

Impact on the business : change their way of working and more caring about the environment

Lots of companies follow the movement of greta, they realized their were not doing enough

They realize they have to do something because the customers want that, if they don’t take the turn of the environmental business they will lose clients and contracts

But also the politic realize the problems and integrate this changing

5) Who is mocking her ? Why ?

After she was mocking and some people try to « décrédibiliser » her

Lots of politicians

Document : United Nations development program

Different way of seing the problem depending on where people live

For small island, the climate emergency is very important whereas it’s less important in the least developed countries

Climate change is seen as an emergency for western Europe

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