Vietnam’s sustainable businesses in 2019 honoured
27/11/19
The Vietnam Business Council for Sustainable
Development (VBCSD) under the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) held a ceremony on November 26 to honour 20
sustainable enterprises in Vietnam.
The honoured firms
included Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk),
Coca-Cola Beverage Vietnam, Heineken Vietnam, Unilever Vietnam,
Herbalife Vietnam, Prudential Vietnam, Joint Stock Commercial Bank for
Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV), Baoviet Holdings, Swiss Poss
Solutions Ltd., and Ho Chi Minh City Development Joint Stock
Commercial Bank (HDBank).
Addressing the
event, VCCI Vice President Vo Tan Thanh said that Corporate Sustainability
Index (CSI) has been used to evaluate businesses’ operations since 2019, which
will be applied in a broader scale in 2020.
The VCCI-developed
CSI 2019 has been simplified from 131 criteria to 98 criteria in socio-economic
and environmental aspects. As many as 90 percent of the criteria are about law
observation, he noted.
Through the CSI,
enterprises can systemize the information of their business management
including process, management method, production, efficiency, relevant laws and
regulations, thus improving and promoting their sustainable development
strategy, said Thanh.
On the occasion,
the VBCSD also honoured nine outstanding media works on sustainable business
development, which were chosen from 100 entries.
The VBCSD was set
up in 2010, aiming to strengthen the close collaboration and dialogue between
the business community, the Government and partners to promote sustainable
development.
The council is one
of the 69 partners of the global network of the World Business Council for
Sustainable Development, with four major activities of communications for
awareness improvement, training, research and international cooperation./.
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