ABSTRACT
This chapter provides United Kingdom profiles which includes key information about the relevant corporate sustainability and responsibility (CSR) history, country-specific issues, trends, research, education and leading organizations. Priority issues for the UK include climate change and wider environmental concerns such as reducing use of non-renewable natural resources, biodiversity, pollution and waste reduction. Key community issues include business—education links, both to improve UK competitiveness and to reduce social exclusion and inequalities and local economic regeneration. There is also increasing attention to bribery, corruption and the protection of human rights—wherever UK businesses are doing business. Many might consider the UK to have an 'enabling environment' for Carbon Reduction (CR), with government encouragement, broad political consensus, network of business-friendly organisations to support, and widespread adoption of at least some aspects of CR. The UK was also one of the first countries in the world to customise the CR messages, language, agenda and examples for small firms.
