Legal Considerations of Corporate Responsibility for Sustainability: A Just Business

This chapter examines the role of corporations in the light of sustainable development and briefly provides for an understanding attached to the term corporate responsibility, this includes corporate social, environ- mental and technological responsibility. The chapter analyses the relevant existing legal principles, namely the United Nations Global Compact and UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Right and further deter- mines the legal and moral value of these instruments. It brings examples of judicial cases brought against tech, internet and communication, and oil corporations. These examples are further examined from a legal and environmental point of view. Finally, the last part suggests dynamic and systematic practices that might abet corporations to avoid environmental damages, human rights abuses through the implementation of due diligence and precautionary measures in order to foster the achievement of SDGs.