Mandatory Reporting for Sustainability

This article from the Economics Observatory focusses on the potential impacts of mandatory corporate social responsibility reporting by businesses. It explores how such reporting, backed by carefully considered standards and enforcement, could deliver social, environmental, and financial benefits, as well as looking at the potential pitfalls.

The last section in particular is good to dissect as it has some useful features of economic evaluation, so this is a nice one to talk through in class, but I've also made a notes sheet below so you can set this for homework. I think I might set the notes for homework and then look at the langauge and techniques in the lesson afterwards to separate the content from the structure, but I haven't quite decided yet...

CSR notes.pdf

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