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RSSAction Plan for Corporate Social Responsibility
On 14 May 2008, the Danish Government presented its Action Plan for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at a press conference led by the Danish Minister of Economic and Business Affairs, Bendt Bendtsen.
The action plan aims at promoting CSR and helping Danish businesses reap more benefits from being at the global vanguard of CSR. At the same time, the plan aims at strengthening the efforts to ensure that Denmark and Danish businesses are generally associated with responsible growth.
The Government has a focus on business-driven CSR and internationally recognised principles - the UN Global Compact and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
The action plan contains a total of 30 initiatives in four key areas:
1. Propagating business-driven social responsibility
The Danish Government wants to strengthen the reporting on CSR by large businesses and provide knowledge and tools for working with business-driven CSR based on internationally recognised principles (UN Global Compact and PRI)
2. Promoting businesses' social responsibility through government activities
The Danish Government intends to heighten focus on social responsibility in connection with state purchasing, investments and state-owned public limited companies
3. Corporate sector's climate responsibility
The Danish Government wants to underpin businesses' active role in meeting global climate challenges by reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in their own and suppliers businesses, while also contributing to develop and disseminate global climate solutions
4. Marketing Denmark for responsible growth
The Danish Government wants to initiate targeted international marketing of Denmark for responsible growth. These activities aims at helping Danish businesses reap greater benefits from their CSR-work
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