Changing Course: A Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment is an interesting treatise on how corporations should be run for the benefit of sustainable development – by combining economic growth with environmental protection. The author’s recommendations are drawn from interviews with the leaders of multinational companies, with examples of current good practice. He explains how governments and companies must work together to make the “polluter pays” principle an accepted standard, factored into the cost of production, across the business community, rather than being a point of conflict between states and corporations, and pinpoints what it is that makes a company genuinely ‘green’, both in the developed and developing worlds.
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Changing Course: A Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment is an interesting treatise on how corporations should be run for the benefit of sustainable development – by combining economic growth with environmental protection. The author’s recommendations are drawn from interviews with the leaders of multinational companies, with examples of current good practice. He explains how governments and companies must work together to make the “polluter pays” principle an accepted standard, factored into the cost of production, across the business community, rather than being a point of conflict between states and corporations, and pinpoints what it is that makes a company genuinely ‘green’, both in the developed and developing worlds.