The Norwegian Forum for Environment and Developement has the plesure of inviting you to attend our international conference: Corporate Social Responsibility: Moral responsibility and legal liability. The conference will be held in Oslo 12 February and is an expert consultation that will explore the issue of CSR as a moral responsibility as well as a legal liability. We will look at the various instruments that can or should prevent unacceptable corporate activities. There is, as you know, an ongoing discourse on the norms underpinning CSR and how to measure corporate performance, as well as various policy discussions on the nature of sanctions mechanisms, whether global or national, legally binding or voluntary, minimum standards or common norms. Experience has demonstrated that these are not necessarily opposites but help shape an emerging normative and legal regulatory framework for corporate activities, framing the policy arena for states, NGOs, the UN and the corporate sector. There is a need to clarify the roles and expectations of these actors and to critically assess whether current responses are adequate to deal with present realities, and to suggest others.

The objective of the conference is to help to move these discussions forward, based on the evidence from real-world examples of corporate behaviour and analysis of available policy responses and sanctions options.  Please see attached program.