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Topic 2 : Corporate responsibility : governance and financing of fair development

Workshop 2.1 : Social and environmental responsibility: ensuring that commitments take root

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Workshops Topic 2 :

At both a global and a local level, it has become increasingly important for private and public economic actors to factor in social and environmental issues when making their strategic choices.

This trend is part of the larger context of capitalism, undergoing major transformations, as evidenced in the growing demand by the various stakeholders – employees, but also consumers and investors – for economic actors to assume more responsibility. Furthermore, corporate commitments to social and environmental responsibility can only take on meaning in the long term.

This workshop will focus on questions about the conditions required to guarantee the longevity of socially and environmentally responsible practices:

How can social and environmental commitments be genuinely integrated in the practices of companies, administrations, local authorities, etc. in all of their activities, regardless of location?
What is needed to ensure that this commitment is made for the long term?
Is it possible to contractualize the process and what role should the various partners of businesses (trade unions, NGOs, suppliers...) play to ensure its continuity?
Faced with major changes in the ways in which business is organised, how can new social and environmental criteria be integrated in strategic decision-making processes?
Beyond the voluntary efforts of organisations, does the mainstreaming of responsible behaviour require the imposition of standards? If so, how can voluntary and mandatory actions be coordinated and at what level should regulation be decided (local, national, supranational) ?

This Workshop has been prepared in coordination with the French Study Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ORSE).

Speakers

Chair: Nicole Notat, President, Vigéo, France

Workshop Moderator: François Fatoux, Chief Representative, Observatory for Corporate Social Responsibility (ORSE), France

Case Study Presentors:

Jacques Kheliff, Director for Sustainable Development, Rhodia
Ramiro Moncayo, Unit Coordinator, Care-Ecuador, Ecuador
Susanne Stormer, Director, Accountability and TBL Leadership, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

Discussants:

Carla Coletti, Secretary, International Metalworkers Federation (IMF)
Oded Grajew, Chairman of the Board, Instituto ETHOS – Business and Social Responsibility, Brazil
Jean-Claude Javillier, Senior adviser, International Institute for Labour Studies, International Labour Organization (ILO)
Muriel Pénicaud, Deputy Director General, Organisation & HR, Dassault Systèmes
Christophe Scheire, Coordinator, Campaigns and Studies, Netwerk Vlaanderen vzw, Belgium

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