WBCSD: "Are companies lobbying for sustainable development?"

27 Jun 2007 – SA in the News

WBCSD president, Björn Stigson, references findings from SustainAbility’s report Coming in from the Cold: Public affairs and corporate responsibility and asks, “Are companies lobbying for sustainable development?”

From the article:
[The report] argues essentially that as companies work more through networks and less through hierarchies in an ever more transparent world, it becomes ever harder to hide the ways in which companies are trying to influence legislators, regulators and other stakeholders.

And it argues that whereas the public and NGOs used to be concerned mainly with a company’s direct impacts, it is “shifting to focus as much on the influence companies wield over different stakeholders.”

Read more at WBCSD.com.