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"International Chamber of Commerce: Business Charter for Sustainable Development, 1991" [2005] ELECD 303; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 80

Section Title: International Chamber of Commerce: Business Charter for Sustainable Development, 1991

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

80. International Chamber of Commerce:
Business Charter for Sustainable
Development, 1991

Commentary: The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC, www.iccwbo.org)
first published the Business Charter in 1987 with a view to assisting business follow-
ing the release of the Brundtland Commission Report. See also, ICC (1974),
`Environmental Guidelines for World Industry', Publication No 435, Paris.
Commencing in 1989, numerous companies and business organisations contributed
input over a two-year period to the ICC Working Party for Sustainable Development.
A revised Charter was adopted by the ICC Executive Board in 1990 and formally
launched in 1991 as a Declaration on Environmental Management at the Second
World Industry Conference on Environmental Management in Rotterdam just prior
to UNCED. The Charter is promoted as a set of good practices from which compa-
nies may formulate their own environmental management system (EMS) and contin-
uously improve environmental performance. The ICC does not attempt to `enforce'
compliance but features corporate endorsers in a `Company Showcase' and regularly
publishes Charter bulletins. See further, ICC (1985), `MNEs: Their Contribution to
Economic Growth and Development', Paris; ICC (2000), `Responsible Business
Conduct: An ICC Approach', Paris. See also the Bundesverband der Deutschen
Industrie eV (1992), `Perspectives 2000', Berlin.




Introduction
Sustainable development involves meeting the needs of the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Economic growth provides the conditions
in which protection of the environment can best be achieved, and environmental protection, in
balance with other human goals, is necessary to achieve ...