Debate: Sustainability and CSR

WF: There’s an increasing realisation that all business has to do more on CSR. It has to be real, practical hands-on CSR rather than a token gesture. The way society is moving companies that fall behind in this aspect will increasingly struggle. Increasingly it is counting within the scoring mechanisms for tenders and bids.

PP: Businesses that embrace this recognise that this is a wider issue; this isn’t a sustainability issue or an environmental issue. They want to be an employer of choice because they want to be seen to have corporate responsibility. AH: It’s a mind-set. The most successful businesses that have CSR and sustainability policies, the ones that make the decisions themselves, do it for all the right reasons.

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