China CSR Map is a initiative which aims to promote CSR in China through the sharing and open exchange of information. The initiative was spurred by the realization that although there is considerable discussion and activities around CSR in China, it is often difficult to find concrete information on which organizations are undertaking what activities.
China CSR Map is a collaboration between Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), SynTao, and China Credit Information Service (CCIS), with CSR Asia acting as media partner.

CERES is a network of 80 NGOs, investors, analysts and interested members of the public who engage in an innovative forum with corporations to discuss environmental and social practice. More than 70 companies of all sizes have signed up to the CERES principles, which consist of a 10-point code of environmental conduct.

Common Code for the Coffee Community is a joint project of the coffee trade & industry, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), producers, trade unions and NGOs.

EBI is an industry and NGO partnership convened by Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business. It aims to develop tools and guidelines for integrating biodiversity into oil and gas development. The initiative seeks to be a positive force for biodiversity conservation by bringing together four major energy companies and five leading conservation organisations to share experiences and build on intellectual capital to create value and influence key audiences. These participants consult with other stakeholders from industry, academia and the environmental community to produce outputs with broad dissemination.
The initiative is structured into four working groups: the Business Case group promotes the rationale for integrating biodiversity conservation; the Biodiversity Conservation Practices working group works on identifying and implementing best practices and conservation techniques; the Metrics group is developing performance indicators for measuring impacts on biodiversity caused by oil and gas operations; and the Site Selection group is developing criteria for deciding whether to operate in biologically sensitive environments.

The ETI is an alliance of companies, NGOs, and trade union organisations committed to working together to identify and promote ethical trade - good practice in the implementation of a code of conduct for good labour standards, including the monitoring and independent verification of the observance of ethics code provisions, as standards for ethical sourcing.
Members, including multinational or transnational companies are committed to business ethics and corporate responsibility, promotion of worker rights and human rights in general. In employment, ethical business includes working towards the ending of child labour, forced labour, and sweatshops, looking at health and safety, labour conditions and labour rights.

The EITI aims to ensure that the revenues from extractive industries contribute to sustainable development and poverty reduction. The UK Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, September 2002. The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has spearheaded the initiative since then.
State-owned companies and small, private companies, as well as the multinationals, will need to be involved. International groups can give important political momentum to the initiative, for example, African partners in the NEPAD (New Partnership for African Development). The World Bank Group and IMF are playing an important role, using their experience of government reporting processes, and developing expertise, alongside bilateral donors. The UN and OECD are also important partners. NGOs have a critical role to play in continuing to research the issues and to raise awareness of the importance of this initiative for sustainable development and poverty reduction. The role of civil society will be critically important in terms of using the data disclosed to hold governments accountable for its expenditure.

The Flower Label Program sets standards of human rights and environmental protection for flower farms to follow in the areas, viz:
- Freedom of association (the freedom for workers to form trade unions)
- Prohibition of child labour and forced labour
- Proper employment contracts and above-average social and working conditions
- Health safeguards and a secure working environment
- Responsible attitude towards natural resources and the environment
- Non-use of toxic pesticides and chemicals
FLP member farms must also comply with internationally accepted workers' rights as laid out by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

In response to a wide acceptance that forest resources should be managed sustainably, and a growing public awareness and consumer preference for ecolabelled products, wood product certification schemes have proliferated. The FSC is an international body which accredits certification organisations in order to guarantee the authenticity of their claims. The goal of FSC is "to promote environmentally responsible, socially beneficial and economically viable management of the world's forests, by establishing a worldwide standard".

In January 1999, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan called for a "Global Compact" between the UN and the business community. In that compact, he challenged business leaders to embrace and enact nine core principles derived from UN agreements on labor standards, human rights and environmental protection. In exchange, he promised, the UN will support free trade and open markets.

The GMI is a coalition of ten multinational mining companies with the aim of promoting the development of corporate social responsibility in the mining sector and assessing mining's contribution to global sustainable development. The initiative's wide remit includes stewardship of natural resources and biodiversity. The GMI created the two-year Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project.

The GRI is an international, multi-stakeholder effort to form a consensus for voluntary reporting of the economic, environmental and social impacts of industry. Its mission is "to elevate the comparability and credibility of sustainability reporting practices worldwide". The GRI incorporates the active participation of businesses, accountancy, human rights, environmental, labour and governmental organisations. The most advanced of the GRI schemes is environmental indicators, and four specific biodiversity indicators are in use: the amount of land used by a business and the type of ecosystem contained thereon; habitat changes due to operations; impacts on protected areas; and programmes for restoration of native ecosystems and species.

ISO, founded in 1947, is an umbrella organisation for national standards bodies from some 140 countries. Its mission is "to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing co-operation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity" .
Focus on biodiversity: the ISO 14000 series provides an environmental management tool for businesses; it does not set absolute norms, rather it provides a means for businesses to continually improve their environmental performance. Biodiversity aspects can be directly integrated into a company's ISO 14001 standards.

MAC is an international, not-for-profit organisation that brings together stakeholder groups with a common interest in the future of the marine aquarium industry and the biodiversity that it is reliant upon. Thus, collectors, importers and retailers meet with aquarium keepers, conservation organisations and government agencies to discuss all aspects of the reef to retail supply chain. Its mission is "to conserve coral reefs and other marine ecosystems by creating standards and certification for those engaged in the collection and care of ornamental marine life from reef to aquarium".

The MSC was brought into being through a partnership between WWF and the multinational Unilever, and has since developed an environmental standard for sustainable and well-managed fisheries. It uses a product label to reward environmentally responsible fishery management and practices. Consumers concerned about overfishing and its environmental and social consequences will increasingly be able to choose seafood products which have been independently assessed against the MSC standard and labelled to prove it, giving an assurance that the product has come from a sustainable fishery. An increasing number of restaurants, supermarkets and fishmongers are sourcing fish bearing the MSC logo.

On April 27th 2006 UN Secretary General launched the Principles for Responsible Investment. They were developed by an international group of institutional investors reflecting the increasing relevance of environmental, social and corporate governance issues to investment practices.
In signing the Principles, the investors publicly commit to adopt and implement them, where consistent with our fiduciary responsibilities. We also commit to evaluate the effectiveness and improve the content of the Principles over time. We believe this will improve our ability to meet commitments to beneficiaries as well as better align our investment activities with the broader interests of society.

Social Accountability International (SAI) works to improve workplaces and combat sweatshops through the expansion and further development of the international workplace standard, SA8000, and the associated SA8000 verification system.
SAI is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development, implementation and oversight of voluntary verifiable social accountability standards. SAI is committed to ensuring that standards and the systems for verifying compliance with such standards are highly reputable and publicly accessible. To accomplish this, SAI convenes key stakeholders to develop consensus-based voluntary standards; accredits qualified organizations to verify compliance and promotes understanding and encourages implementation of such standards worldwide

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