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July 20, 2007: Responsible Round-Up

Corporate Social Responsibility

• “Fake cardboard bun news tarnishes media image,” China Daily, 7/20/07

BEIJING — China’s journalist association has condemned the act of fabricating news following the revelation that the report on dumplings stuffed with cardboard aired on Chinese television was proved fake.

The All-China Journalists’ Association (ACJA) on Thursday night released a statement criticizing journalists involved in the fabricated report, saying it “severely violated journalistic ethics and severely tarnished the image and social credibility of Chinese media”.

• “SOEs ahead in social responsibility report,” China Daily, 7/17/07

By June 22 of this year, 34 Chinese enterprises had published their corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports, with 80 percent being State-owned enterprises (SOEs), the China Business News reported Tuesday.

Environment

• “Thinking about our footprints,” China Dialogue, 7/20/07

“Wow! My carbon footprint is over 20 tonnes a year,” exclaims Ren Yafen, vice president of BP China. Ren is calculating her carbon expenditure online, and in a time when more and more people across the world are concerned about climate change, she thinks hers is disproportionately large. The current average annual carbon footprint of a Chinese urban dweller is 2.7 tonnes.

Offices in Beijing and Shanghai see increasing numbers of white-collar workers measuring their lifestyles with similar computer programmes, which calculate their personal annual greenhouse-gas emissions. The software is a simple way for them to work out how much carbon dioxide is released into the air through their choices of living arrangements, their travel and shopping habits.

• “China to address lake pollution,” Edie, 7/20/07

China is to bring in tough legislation to try and halt worsening pollution of the country’s lakes, which is effecting domestic water supply.

And launching the new legislation, the Government’s head of environment has attacked “bumpkin policies” that encourage local officals to turn a blind eye to environmental hazards, reports the state-owned Xinhua news agency.

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