Institute of Social and environmental issues, founded and headed by renowned Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun, a small nonprofit organization oversized mission. Beijing Group aims to be a catalyst in the "greening" of the production facilities in China. IPE Department of Community, an online database of air and water violations at factories in China, creating innovative "black list" polluters. By mid-2009, IPE has collected a database of more than 47,000 air and water quality violations. To exit the list, 22 multinational corporations have taken corrective action and accepted IPE-supervised environmental audits of their Chinese factories. Ma was a champion of access to environmental information, which he believed could bring public pressure on the company to operate more responsibly. Ma also was a respected voice on the environment in China and a leading advocate of public participation in environmental protection in China. But environmental entrepreneur looking for ways his organization could make a greater impact. Case is the contribution that NGOs can make to environmental changes. It focuses on the role of transparency and improved supply chain can play in reducing pollution. "Hide
by Hau Lee, Erica Plambeck, Maria Shao Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business 28 pages. Publication Date: July 30, 2009. Prod. #: SI115-PDF-ENG
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