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Article

17 Jun 2007

Author:
Andrew Murray-Watson, Independent [UK]

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart: Soul mining

...Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, the veteran chairman of Anglo American...is a signatory on a new report out tomorrow from Tomorrow's Company, a business think-tank, which challenges the role of big business...[other signatories include] Mervyn Davies, the chairman of Standard Chartered, and John Manzoni, chief executive of refining and marketing at BP...They say in the introduction: "We all believe that for companies to succeed into the future, they must play a greater role in contributing to solving the problems that society faces, including environmental degradation, poverty and the abuse of human rights...[The report] also admits there are major issues that the market and the political system have not resolved - particularly climate change, areas of persistent poverty and abuses of human rights. It is even expected to say that, more often than not, fiscal systems do not drive the market in sustainable directions. [also refers to AngloGold Ashanti, Shell]