Procter&Gamble in China:
Procter & Gamble is the largest donor of Hope primary schools among multinational companies in China. Since 1999, its funding for education has reached 3.2 million yuan, and 188 Hope primary schools have been built successively. P&g donation hope primary school has established a mature model. Many of P&G's business partners are also working with P&G to establish Hope primary schools. For example, Pokphand lotus and P&G have cooperated to establish LOTUS Hope Primary School. Wang Chengcang, manager of p&G (China) company's External Affairs Department believes that this opens up a stage for our business cooperation from another mode.
Pepsi in China:
PepsiCo has invested nearly 200 million yuan, all over China to develop potato planting project, established the planting base in Inner Mongolia, make the desert oasis, and promotion in other regions. The relevant person in charge of PepsiCo in TaiXiangMei, says ms Pepsi from the perspective of business achieved their basic purpose, is to return, want to do business, not purely transform desert, but also to transform desert into fertile land.
C.p group in China:
In China's relatively poor northwest and other regions, zhengda group provide the good seedlings, seeds to farmers, and provide excellent management model to farmers. According to incomplete statistics, zhengda group to put the number of livestock farmers per year on average about 210 million. Zhengda feed of a year contract with 150000 tons, the existing scale of chicken feed profession of 20000 households, 260000 people are directly involved in the cultivation of people, provide organic fertilizer for a total of 400000 tons per year.And to help farmers in accordance with the standards of zhengda construction henhouse and piggery. Through continuous technical training for farmers, farmers become breeding experts, thus promoting the Chinese whole animal husbandry breeding level. 4, wantong real estate index system of building China's first green community standardsOn March 28, 2004, wantong real estate group Thanksgiving Day activities held in Beijing. Activity for the first time shows the vantone since entrepreneurship is more than ten years of public welfare activities. It held a grand ceremony and famous environmental protection organization "global village" good strategic cooperation alliance, to is committed to building China's first "green community standard index system", to sublimate wantong real estate enterprise value and social responsibility.At present, the social responsibility become constitute important elements of enterprise competitiveness. Through this action, to fully demonstrate the wantong company's social responsibility and enthusiasm in public welfare activities, it promoted wantong real estate brand competitiveness in the invisible.
CSR in Canada:
The Canadian government has issued a new CSR Strategy for Canada's mining and oil and gas industries, which sets out the consequences and dispute resolution procedures for companies that refuse to adhere to accepted CSR best practices. Readers will learn about the impact of this strategy on Canadian mining companies operating globally.
On November 14, 2014, Canada's Minister of International Trade, Ed Fast, announced a new action plan, "Doing Business The Canadian Way: Strengthening Canada's Socially Responsible Strategy for Extractive Industries around the world."
The strategy is the revision and improvement of the Corporate social responsibility strategy issued in Canada in 2009. Part of the old strategy included setting up an Office of the Extractive Sector CSR Counsellor. It has no judicial powers and is mainly responsible for mediating international disputes between local communities and Canadian extractive companies.
The consultant's office has been criticized. Non-governmental organizations criticized it as not strong enough, the mining community said it was ineffective, and some mining companies refused to join the voluntary mediation process proposed by the agency. The new strategy has been expected since the office's first appointed adviser resigned a year ago.
The new strategy retains the CSR advisory role and aims to promote CSR best practice standards in the mining and oil and gas industries.
The new strategy represents three key improvements over the 2009 version.
One is to clarify the consequences of not participating in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) advisory process.
The most striking aspect of the new strategy is that there are consequences for companies that refuse to participate in the CSR advisory process. The Canadian government says it expects companies to adhere to industry-accepted standards of corporate social responsibility, in line with the economic diplomacy that Canada values.
The new strategy states that companies that do not participate in the dialogue mediation process organized by Canada's CSR Advisers and the OECD-Canada National Liaison Office may face the withdrawal of the Trade Commissioner's services and other Canadian government support for business development overseas. These could include the withdrawal of government services, such as letters of support, advocacy in foreign markets and participation in trade missions with their own governments. Canadian businesses that do not fully embrace CSR best practices or refuse to participate in the dispute resolution process set out in CSR strategies no longer benefit from Canada's economic foreign policy. However, the new strategy also does not specify how and by whom non-acceptance and non-participation will be defined. More needs to be done.
Companies found not to be in compliance with the CSR strategy face restrictions on CSR assessments and due diligence by Export Development Canada when seeking financing or other assistance. Of course, international financial institutions that follow the Equator principles, including five Chartered banks in Canada, also check these backgrounds when making financial decisions.
Second, the new CSR standards recognized by the industry have been clarified.
The new CSR strategy endorses the benchmarks required by the Canadian government for Canadian companies operating overseas. The Strategy states that the Canadian government expects Canadian companies to comply with higher and stricter laws when the laws of the target countries differ from the international standards listed below.
International best practice Standards endorsed by The Strategy include The 2012 International Finance Corporation Performance Standards on Social and Environmental Sustainability Environmental & Social Sustainability, IFC Performance Standards, The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, UNGP), The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, OECD Guidelines, OECD Due Diligence Guidance on Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals in Conflict and High Risk Areas From Conflict-Affected and High-risk Areas), the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VP), and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The old strategy, introduced in 2009, endorsed the IfC Social and Environmental Sustainability Policies and Performance Standards, introduced in 2006, the OECD Guidelines on Transnational Corporations, the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, and the Global Reporting Initiative; The new strategy endorses the 2012 version of the OECD Guidelines on Responsible Supply Chain Due Diligence for Minerals in Conflict and High-risk Zones.
In terms of reference to international standards, the NEW CSR strategy released this year also gives UNGP recognition. UNGP has established an international human rights framework and expects companies to take human rights implications seriously and conduct due diligence on them. The FRAMEWORK was endorsed by the UN Human Rights Committee in 2012, and both the UK and the US have published action plans for its implementation.
Third, the CSR Consultant in Canada has formed a cooperative relationship with the National liaison office of OECD Canada.
Another notable improvement in the new strategy is the recognition that the Canadian OECD National Liaison Office (NCP) can act as a dispute mediation agency. In this way, companies with disputes can get more formal mediation. The NCP recognises the responsible business practices of the OECD Guidelines on Transnational Corporations and is in force in 46 countries around the world. Under the new strategy, CSR advisers will refer disputes to the NCP if parties benefit from formal mediation. This was not available in the old strategic advisory program.
While the new strategy is not fundamentally different from the old one, it demonstrates the Canadian government's determination to require Canadian extractive companies to pay attention to and comply with the role of CSR consultancy and international best practices. For mining and energy companies, it is important to respect and comply with international standards as well as national legal systems.
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