Establishing environmentally responsible enterprises


  • Operating environmentally responsible enterprises
  • Strengthening environmentally responsible entrepreneurship
  • Evoking ecologically sustainable commercial activity

Context

Entrepreneurship is one of the most important driving forces for innovation, increasing market efficiency and responding to challenges and opportunities. Small and medium-sized enterprises, in particular, play a very important role in the social and economic development of a country. Often they are the major means for rural development, increasing off-farm employment and providing the transitional means for improving the livelihood of women. Responsible entrepreneurship can play a major role in improving the efficiency of resource use, reducing risks and hazards, minimizing wastes and safeguarding environmental qualities.

Small and medium sized-businesses are an important part of the UK economy. They are also responsible for one-third of the carbon dioxide emissions from business and a significant proportion of other waste. Smaller companies therefore have a significant role to play to help meet climate change targets. There can be significant benefits in improving environmental performance for companies of all sizes. On average a fifth of energy and a quarter of a company's waste can be avoided cost-effectively. Saving resources saves money and improves competitiveness – gain, not pain.

Implementation

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Narrower

  1. Utilizing locally grown products
  2. Using sustainable technologies
  3. Transferring environmentally sound technology to affiliates in developing countries
  4. Training in environmental aspects of enterprise management
  5. Supporting industry in building cleaner production into product design
  6. Sharing business experience on sustainable development
  7. Producing local consumer products
  8. Marketing locally produced goods
  9. Involving women entrepreneurs in national expertise groups for sustainability
  10. Increasing support for sustainable development programmes of small and medium enterprises
  11. Increasing support for improving environmentally sound technology and management
  12. Improving cooperation with industry on sustainable development strategies and programmes
  13. Funding environmentally sustainable business
  14. Expanding industry consultation with the public
  15. Establishing world-wide corporate policies for sustainable development
  16. Establishing partnerships for sustainable development with small and medium-sized enterprises
  17. Establishing national councils for sustainable development
  18. Developing local product resources
  19. Developing eco-tourism business strategies for biodiversity conservation
  20. Creating venture capital funds for sustainable development programmes
  21. Advancing industrial environmental management
  22. Adapting procedures in overseas affiliates to local ecological conditions

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