ARL Wins UN GC Award

The Attock Refinery Limited (ARL) won the "Living the United Nations Global Compact Responsible Business Award 2009" in the Large National Category. The award recognises Pakistani enterprises that best integrates the 10 principles of the United Nations Global Compact into their business philosophy and acknowledges organisations demonstrating adherence to these principles in action.

I have long been an advocate of the need to incentivise CSR in Pakistan and awards like this one and the ACCA-WWF Sustainability Awards of which I have been a part for long, help to promote the concepts related to corporate responsibility and the adoption and integration of the 10 UN Global Compact principles into the mainstream business planning and activities. So kudos to the organisers for providing another incentive to the corporate sector in Pakistan for CSR promotion and to ARL for winning the award.

Click here to read the related press release by ARL.