Evaluate the body shop csr works by using The CSR literature (e.g. on the releva

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Evaluate the body shop csr works by using The CSR literature (e.g. on the relevant sector or company)

Reference to wider CSR initiatives

Media reports, and critiques from various stakeholders (including NGOs and unions).

For example, you might use Crane et al.’s ‘Core characteristics of CSR’; Carroll’s pyramid; stakeholder theory; and/or the GRI reporting criteria to help you evaluate what is good about the approach taken by the company, and what is missing or what it could do better.

Does the company’s CSR work appear to address its core social and environmental impacts, and its key stakeholders?

The body Shop CSR activities :

Does not test products on animals

Supports trade with communities

Celebrates diversity, empowerment, and, acceptance

Defends human rights

Considers protection of the planet, and, sustainable business

Sustainable packaging; 70 percent of the product packaging should not contain fossil fuels

Carbon balanced energy - find renewable solutions

Reduction in energy use of stores

In 2016, the organization announced 14 targets for its global CSR strategy. The three pillars are to enrich people; to enrich products, to enrich planet

Enrich people

Help 40000 people across the world access work

Invest 250000 hours of know-how & skills to enrich biodiversity of local communities

Engage men & women in the Bodyshop's enrich not exploit mission

Double the community trade program to 40 ingredients from 19 and enrich communities producing them

Enrich planet

Reduce energy usage by 10 percent each year

Power stores with carbon balanced or renewed energy

Use sustainable packaging innovations

Nearly 70 percent of product packaging does not use fossil fuels

Reduce the environmental footprint each time the stores are refurbished, and, redesigned

Help communities live sustainably; build bio-bridges; regenerate & protect 75 million square metres of habitat

Enrich products

Reduce envrionmental footprint of product categories

Have an innovation pipeline delivering cosmetic ingredients from biodiversity hotspots helping enrich these regions

Ensure 100 percent of ingredients are sustainable sourced, and, tradeable

Use ingredients from green chemistry, ingredients of natural origin; biodegradability & water footprint of products

Explanation / Answer

Evaluation is based on following points and aspects:-

What more improved Body Shop can do is, to bring more efficiency in CSR activities and incorporate it with entire company culture:-

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