Norway
Norway
Mr. chairman, Norway wants to emphasize the positive role of corporate social and
environmental responsibility.
Industry is an essential part of society, and an essential part of the efforts to make
development sustainable. In the view of Norway, guidelines such as those agreed in OECD as
well as reports following GRI recommendations are good for society and good for business.
Customers, owners, employees and the broader public expect companies to create value,
ethical, social and environmental performance is part of the expectations. Like EU, Mexico
and others, we underline the need to enforce the ILO core labour standards. Industry can help
make this and other basic obligations effective.
This is in the interest of companies themselves.It is easy for a company to lose goodwill and
markets, difficult to regain trust. However, CSR is not just about avoiding negatives. In the
field of environment, Norways cooperation on cleaner production with Poland, Russia, UNEP
and UNIDO has shown that efforts on resource management and quality control makes for
better economic management and results.
In a months time, March 28th-30th, , the Norwegian government will arrange a conference on
CSR in Oslo. You are all welcome to participate, but we will also be bringing its conclusions
to the CSDs session in may.
Norway hopes that CSD-15 at least will recommend
? that more countries and firms adopt international corporate social responsibility and
accountability norms in keeping with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational
Enterprises,
? that corporate social responsibility and accountability be an integrated part of
national strategies for private-sector development
? using the reporting framework drawn up by the Global Reporting Initiative
With regard to more sustainable production and consumption, we are pleased that the
Marrakech process on sustainable production and consumption is making good progress.
In line with the views of the US we agree that it provides a forum for countries to learn,
replicate and scale up succesful projects. We would add that it also provides a forum for
improving policies. one example is the G77 proposal that one should build on local cultural
values to change consumer behaviour towards more sustainable lifestyles. Indeed, we look
forward to to the "Marrakech" review meeting in Sweden later this year..
Thank you, Mr. Chairman
Mr. chairman, Norway wants to emphasize the positive role of corporate social and
environmental responsibility.
Industry is an essential part of society, and an essential part of the efforts to make
development sustainable. In the view of Norway, guidelines such as those agreed in OECD as
well as reports following GRI recommendations are good for society and good for business.
Customers, owners, employees and the broader public expect companies to create value,
ethical, social and environmental performance is part of the expectations. Like EU, Mexico
and others, we underline the need to enforce the ILO core labour standards. Industry can help
make this and other basic obligations effective.
This is in the interest of companies themselves.It is easy for a company to lose goodwill and
markets, difficult to regain trust. However, CSR is not just about avoiding negatives. In the
field of environment, Norways cooperation on cleaner production with Poland, Russia, UNEP
and UNIDO has shown that efforts on resource management and quality control makes for
better economic management and results.
In a months time, March 28th-30th, , the Norwegian government will arrange a conference on
CSR in Oslo. You are all welcome to participate, but we will also be bringing its conclusions
to the CSDs session in may.
Norway hopes that CSD-15 at least will recommend
? that more countries and firms adopt international corporate social responsibility and
accountability norms in keeping with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational
Enterprises,
? that corporate social responsibility and accountability be an integrated part of
national strategies for private-sector development
? using the reporting framework drawn up by the Global Reporting Initiative
With regard to more sustainable production and consumption, we are pleased that the
Marrakech process on sustainable production and consumption is making good progress.
In line with the views of the US we agree that it provides a forum for countries to learn,
replicate and scale up succesful projects. We would add that it also provides a forum for
improving policies. one example is the G77 proposal that one should build on local cultural
values to change consumer behaviour towards more sustainable lifestyles. Indeed, we look
forward to to the "Marrakech" review meeting in Sweden later this year..
Thank you, Mr. Chairman
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