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Compiled by Dr. Joe Herbertson
June 2001
Sustainable Resource
Processing
Business
Leadership and Governance
•Increasingly there are demands for corporations
to accord
civil society much the same rights as democracies grant their citizens;
this is something new, but unlikely to diminish over
time
•These are the deeper issues that drive transparency,
accountability,
participation, corporate social responsibility and triple bottom line reporting
Quoted in ‘Tomorrow, Global
Sustainable Business’, No.2, Vol. 11, March-April 2001; sources include
Institute for Policy Studies, World Resources Institute
The minerals industry
is not alone in seeing the emergence of a small number of global
mega-players; the other side of the global economic leadership coin is governance
•The income ratio of the richest to the poorest 20% of the world’s population has risen between 1960 and 1994 from 30:1 to
86:1
•A majority [51] of the world’s 100 largest economic entities
are corporations,
49 are countries
•The world’s largest 200 corporations represent over
25% of global
economic activity
•Global eco-systems are generally deteriorating or vulnerable