Corporate responsibility 1: The environment CHECK YOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR LAW

CHECK YOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR LAW

Corporate responsibility 1: The environment

Corporate responsibility can broadly be defined as the responsibility a company or other organisation and its directors have to the people they employ, to their customers, to the people who live in and around their areas of operation and to the local, national and international environment. While many aspects of corporate responsibility are not laws in themselves, they may be part of, or become involved in, a legal process.  Complete this text about corporate responsibility and the environment with words from the box. abused affected alternative assets benefit climate codes communities compensation conflict consultation degradation ecological ecosystems effect exploit extracts fossil genetically human rights impact implementing indigenous indirectly minimise non-renewable non-sustainable pollution precautions protocols reduce regulations regulatory renewable resources solar sustainable sustaining transparent voluntarily A company should ensure that its actions do not damage local and global__________. It needs to __________ its use of natural __________ such as oil, gas and other __________ fuels, and regulate its __________ on aspects such as __________ change, and air, sea and noise __________ . It needs to be aware of the dangers it might pose in terms of __________ __________, and must follow local, national and international __________, rules, __________ and __________ designed to __________ damage. Where possible, it should __________ the availability of __________ power sources such as __________ and tidal power. If the company is involved in the agricultural sector, it should support and encourage __________ agriculture and forest use. If a company wishes to develop __________ modified products, it should do so only if it is safe, and only after public __________, and it should take all necessary __________. It should also have the approval of local people who might be __________. If accidents occur or __________ breaches are made, the company must be honest and __________ in its dealings with those who are affected, and assist them in __________ procedures to reduce its __________. A company that __________ and exploits natural __________ resources such as coal, oil or gas, or __________ resources such as hydro-electric power, should ensure that it avoids __________ with local people, and that the __________ of those people are not __________ through its actions, either directly or __________. It needs to be aware of its role in __________ the environment, and helping to preserve the survival of local and national __________ (including __________ people who might be less able to represent or defend themselves). A company should avoid working in or around vulnerable and __________ communities unless its actions directly __________ those communities Where people are asked to move in order for a company to exploit local resources, they should do so __________, and should be offered adequate __________ for their land and __________ (the resource being exploited should be considered as one of these).

 

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