Ethics and corporate social responsibility issues
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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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