UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

Environmental responsibility under CSR expects companies to go beyond legal compliance and proactively reduce their ecological footprint. This can include improving energy and resource efficiency, controlling emissions, managing waste responsibly and participating in restoration of degraded ecosystems around their operations. Such actions align business goals with community and environmental well-being, strengthening social licence to operate.

Option A:
Option A is incorrect because omitting environmental information from reports hides important impacts and does not reflect transparent or responsible corporate behaviour.

Option B:
Option B is correct since it lists concrete steps that lower environmental harm and support local ecological recovery, which are central to CSR’s environmental dimension.

Option C:
Option C is incorrect as ignoring environmental consequences for profit contradicts both CSR principles and many modern regulatory expectations.

Option D:
Option D is incorrect because shifting polluting units to lax regions amounts to "pollution havens" and does not reduce overall environmental damage; it undermines global sustainability.