It will minimise adverse environmental impacts, with an eye to maintaining, or replacing, environmental goods and sustaining biodiversity. In short it will be a good neighbour and a constructive local citizen, positively engaged in the stability and well-being of the local community. To reach such standards it cannot be enough to rely on minimum compliance with host government requirements, necessary as these are. Partnership is the key. Such partnerships are not easy.
Different players have different cultures and agendas.
Clear objectives have to be hammered out and shared, confidence has to be built and local leadership is necessary. But the gearing from success makes it well worthwhile solving the problems. So, in conclusion, I do not say every company has got it right. Even the best are not as good as they should be. But given the scale of the social problems we have been considering at this Summit, I have no doubt that business is already making a substantial contribution to their solution and, with encouragement and partnerships, could do even more.