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What does Corporate Social Responsibility Really Mean?

Logistics Bureau

3) Better trade relations: Companies up and down the supply chain will relate more to other partner firms that have adopted the same or similar CSR values as themselves. Lego says it will strive to eliminate its landfill waste by 2025 and to produce all its building bricks from sustainable resources (renewable or recycled) by 2030.

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Enter RCEP: The World’s Largest Free Trade Agreement

Logistics Viewpoints

India: Missing in Action: Not surprisingly, with RCEP comprising a diverse group of members, ranging from advanced countries like Australia, Japan and Korea down to the still very much developing nations of Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar, the road to the 20 chapter, 14,000 page agreement was long and sometimes arduous.

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China’s Historic Silk Road is Resurrected from the Rubble

Elementum

In 2013, President Xi Jin Ping introduced an initiative to construct a modern-day equivalent of the Silk Road as part of the country’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. More than 2,000 years after its creation, the road that changed the face of Chinese commerce is being revived. Sustainability and Interconnected Economic Growth.

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