The Government's Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment (ACBE) has issued draft guidelines urging industry to talk to external stakeholders before making environmentally sensitive decisions.1 Their publication came a week after Shell's top executive acknowledged that the company had made a series of misjudgements about the Brent Spar and other recent environmental and ethical issues after failing to understand the changing social and cultural context in which it operates.
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Further information:
- 1 Integrating the environment into business decisions: The consensus approach, from ACBE Secretariat, Department of Trade and Industry, Room 4/97, 151 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9SS.
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