Are the CERES Principles sufficiently clear and precise to be relevant to specific companies?
The CERES Principles are intended to serve as a broad, aspirational code of conduct for any company in any industry. Companies that publicly endorse the CERES Principles are invited to expand upon the goals of these Principles in their own internal codes of environmental conduct, and are expected to develop over time the programs that best carry out the letter and spirit of these goals. Endorsing companies complete the CERES Report in the manner most appropriate for them, while adhering as closely as possible to the objective of standardization. Are the CERES Principles subject to continuously changing interpretations and standards? Scientific, ethical and economic understandings of environmental issues continue to evolve. The scope and nature of the CERES program may change as necessary to reflect this evolution, just as will government standards, public expectations and business practices. To date, CERES has modified the Principles only once, and in response to input from participati
