{"id":13045,"date":"2007-06-05T20:51:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T03:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/06\/05\/in-china-coke-others-cultivate-profits-and-conscience-ap\/"},"modified":"2007-06-05T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T03:51:12","slug":"in-china-coke-others-cultivate-profits-and-conscience-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/06\/in-china-coke-others-cultivate-profits-and-conscience-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"In China, Coke, Others Cultivate Profits and Conscience &#8211; AP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn a sign that water is becoming the &#8220;new carbon,&#8221; Coca-Cola has agreed to change their bottling practices to conserve water while also contributing to efforts to clean up the Yangtze:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/cokex.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/cokex.jpg','popup','width=245,height=366,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/cokex-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"66\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Cokex\" \/><\/a>Coca-Cola (KO) will revamp bottling practices globally to save water and pay for conservation along the Yangtze River and other major waterways, highlighting a growing emphasis on social and environmental spending by multinational companies in China.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs China becomes an ever more important market and manufacturing base, many multinationals are under growing pressure in the Chinese media to show they&#8217;re doing in China than taking profits&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Projects paid for by multinationals in China run the gamut from &#8220;planting a few trees by the Great Wall&#8221; to significantly reducing carbon emissions, said Elizabeth Knup, who heads the corporate social responsibility committee for the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>She said the spending in China on corporate social responsibility is difficult to calculate. Some companies consider compliance with environment or labor standards a measure of their social responsibility while others tout charity, sponsorship programs or industrial training courses. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/environment\/2007-06-05-coke-water-china_N.htm?csp=34\" target=\"_blank\">[Full text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><br \/>\n<br \/><\/span>Read also <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/shows\/2007\/06\/05\/PM200706057.html\" target=\"_blank\">the text <\/a>of a Marketplace report on this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sign that water is becoming the &#8220;new carbon,&#8221; Coca-Cola has agreed to change their bottling practices to conserve water while also contributing to efforts to clean up the Yangtze: Coca-Cola (KO) will revamp bottling practices globally to save water and pay for conservation along the Yangtze River and other major waterways, highlighting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,132,1051],"tags":[4967,1517,982,174,6345],"class_list":["post-13045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-environmental-crisis","category-top-article","tag-coca-cola","tag-corporate-responsibility","tag-foreign-companies","tag-water","tag-yangtze-river","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In China, Coke, Others Cultivate Profits and Conscience - AP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/06\/in-china-coke-others-cultivate-profits-and-conscience-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In China, Coke, Others Cultivate Profits and Conscience - AP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a sign that water is becoming the &#8220;new carbon,&#8221; 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