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title: Offshoring
date: 2024-03-27T13:21:18Z
modified: 2025-09-08T12:35:35Z
permalink: "https://chancerylaneproject.org/glossary/offshoring/"
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## Definition

**Offshoring** means the relocation of \[_insert business activities throughout the value chain_\] to another country or the outsourcing of such activities to a third party in another country for the purpose of one or more of the following:

(a) reducing its net greenhouse gas emissions;

(b) avoiding \[[Environmental Performance](https://chancerylaneproject.org/glossary/environmental-performance/)\] targets in \[original country\] due to more lenient environmental regulation in \[the country of relocation\];

(c) using unreasonably low-cost labour;

(d) exploiting weaker labour laws and practices in \[the country of relocation\];

(e) carrying out practices in \[the country of relocation\] which would be illegal in \[original country\]; and/or

(f) carrying out practices in \[the country of relocation\] which could be reasonably considered to adversely affect achieving \[a just transition\] \[and\] \[the UN Sustainable Development Goals OR wider social and ecological goals\].