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The Outlaw Ocean Project Exposes China’s Use Of Forced Uyghur Labour To Supply UK Seafood Industry

DeSmogBlog

At least a million Uyghurs have been forced into detention camps over the past six years, where they are subjected to beatings, torture, forced sterilisation and political re-education. ” Morrisons told DeSmog that it was “liaising with [its] suppliers to ensure that these concerns are fully investigated.”

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The Business Roundtable’s statement of purpose, one year on

GreenBiz

Moreover, under the laws of the state of Delaware, where 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies (and many smaller ones, including GreenBiz Group) are registered, corporate directors still have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of shareholders. At best the statement codified what hundreds of big companies are already doing.

Politics 365
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability: What’s the Difference?

Green Business Bureau

Both corporate sustainability and CSR help companies run in a way that allows them to be ethically profitable, but never at the expense of others. His book Social Responsibilities of the Businessman advocates the ethics and responsiveness of business to societal stakeholders. Farmer education programs. The benefits of CSR.

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Mortgage Loan Servicing Consultant at Sutherland

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How MBA courses can promote sustainability

Business Green

In 1970, Milton Friedman would notoriously argue that the most important responsibility of a corporate executive is "to make as much money as possible while conforming to the basic rules of society, both those embodied in law and those embodied in ethical custom". This is a mismatch that I want to correct.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

Bespectacled, tall, and barrel-chested, with blonde hair and a beard punctuated by gray, Cole stood confidently before a classroom of conference attendees at a University of Oregon environmental law symposium in 2008, less than a year before his death. Abascal gave Cole a desk and a phone, and Cole got to work. Early Influences.

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Estimator I/II

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