A recent report on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Communications (PDF link) has some interesting findings. When asked to select the three most important activities for a socially responsible company to engage in, survey respondents for the report listed “ensuring that products meet accepted environmental/social standards” at number two. Only “fair treatment of employees” came in higher.

Meeting environmental standards is certainly important, but which ones? And where do they come from? Are they reliable? Do they cover the most important environmental attributes?

It becomes clearer and clearer to me that greater regulation or at least transparency is needed in the setting and promotion of environmental standards.

Information on the report via Buyer Analytics and Environmental Leader. Click thumbnail right for larger picture.

Posted by Mari in Environmental standards, Green business