This paper has been written by Tom Bigg and Halina Ward of the International
Institute for Environment and Development at the invitation of the Swedish Ministry
for Foreign Affairs. It is intended to generate discussion on the potential for the
creation of an international multistakeholder process to address some of the key gaps
in the contemporary agenda on ‘corporate responsibility’ or ‘corporate social
responsibility’. It has not been possible to discuss any of the options outlined in the
paper with individuals or agencies whose activities we refer to and we therefore stress
that the views that we put forward in this paper are ours alone.