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Over the last decade global economic integration and fast-growing foreign trade have prompted China to pay close attention to CSR. Starting from 2004, China has taken firm action to promote sustainable development. Mr. Joshua Wickerham will discuss what the future holds for companies doing business in and/or with China in terms of CSR policies, and how they can remain competitive while maintaining integrity. Mr. Joshua Wickerham guides AccountAbility’s China strategy and opened AccountAbility’s Beijing office. He stewards the AccountAbility’s AA1000 group of standards in China (Accountability Principles Standard, Assurance Standard, and Stakeholder Engagement Standard); guides work with major corporations to improve their sustainability strategies, governance, management systems, stakeholder engagement, and collaborative governance approaches; and, works with government officials, civil society, and the private sector to research trends in sustainability indexes and metrics, voluntary standards and sustainable trade, and other means of shaping markets to reward sustainable development at the regional, national and international levels, largely under the banner of AccountAbility’s Responsible Competitiveness program. Joshua’s projects include Responsible Competitiveness in China 2009: Seizing the low carbon opportunity for green development, written under patronage of the Swedish EU presidency and the Sino-Swedish CSR Project (Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chinese Ministry of Commerce), which was launched at the EU-China Summit in November 2009.
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