CSR needs CPR: Corporate sustainability and politics
2018
markdownabstractCorporate sustainability has gone mainstream, and many companies have taken
meaningful steps to improve their own environmental performance. But while
corporate political actions such as lobbying can have a greater impact on environmental
quality, they are ignored in most current sustainability metrics. It is time for these
metrics to be expanded to critically assess firms based on the sustainability impacts
of their public policy positions. To enable such assessments, firms must become as
transparent about their corporate political responsibility (CPR) as their corporate social
responsibility (CSR). For their part, rating systems must demand such information
from firms and include evaluations of corporate political activity in their assessments
of corporate environmental responsibility.
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