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 Special focus on encouraging the contribution of business to the environment
To many people, international investment by multinational enterprises is what globalisation is all about. Promoting appropriate business conduct among such companies is a growing challenge since their operations often straddle dozens of countries and hundreds of cultural, legal and regulatory environments.
The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises aim to help businesses, labour unions and NGOs meet this challenge by providing a global framework for responsible business conduct. While observance of the Guidelines is voluntary for businesses, adhering governments are committed to promoting them and to making them influential among companies operating in or from their territories.
This Annual Report on the Guidelines, the fourth in a series, describes what governments have done to live up to this commitment over the period June 2003-June 2004. It also provides an overview of how the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises can help to promote the positive contribution of business to the environment.
Further information and extracts from the publication can be consulted on the following pages:
The full publication can be purchased via the Online Bookshop.
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