Researchers have identified six corporate actions that, combined with effective public policy and improved governmental regulations, could help large transnational corporations steer environmental stewardship efforts around the world, a new paper suggests.
Researchers have identified six corporate actions that, combined with effective public policy and improved governmental regulations, could help large transnational corporations steer environmental stewardship efforts around the world, a new paper suggests.
A handful of transnational corporations in key sectors such as agriculture, forestry, seafood, minerals and fossil energy have a significant environmental impact but also possess the ability to influence important industry changes to ensure long term sustainability, and these features of change underscore that, said James Watson, a co-author of the paper and an assistant professor who specializes in sustainability science at Oregon State University.
“The leaders of these companies should be at the table when we’re talking about issues of global sustainability,” said Watson, who is on the faculty of OSU’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. “In the past, you would not have imagined them at the table. But to create sustainability around the globe, we can’t act alone in one place. We have to act in concert.”
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