Responsibilities of Mncs

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What do you think are the responsibilities of MNCs toward the environment? Give an example of a MNC that has seriously harmed (or repaired) the environment of a host country? What is your reaction to what happened? To protect the environment in which we all live is not a moral, ethical or cultural issue. It’s a survival issue. Modern humans have forgotten the basic principle of survival; respect the environment in which you live. It is obvious if you think about it. For the MNCs, because of their impact on the environment, they have an obligation to try to mitigate the effects of their activities in an effort to protect the land and water resources. MNCs not only have a long history, strong financial background, but also have the experience of leading technology and pollution prevention. MNCs have a good reputation in environmental protection; environmental protection has even become one of the competitive advantages of those enterprises. For example, a Japanese company, which factories in Japan has achieved zero emissions, but has not reached even the most basic emission standards in China. Some of them, however, did not comply with its own commitment to the environment. They enter China soon "Romans", lower environmental standards. Specifically, there is a very famous event in China. The spill from the oil field, which the United States' ConocoPhillips operates with China's state-run oil giant CNOOC, has polluted a total area of almost 4,250 square kilometers (1,650 square miles), government figures showed. The figures, which were announced on the State Oceanic Administration website earlier this week but only reported on Friday, were almost five times the size of the 840-square-kilometre area previously reported. The administration says that area remains worst affected by the spill, but that another 3,400 square kilometers have also been contaminated to

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