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Siemens goes green for good causes
Siemens plc has launched its inaugural 'Sustainability Month' across the company in the UK, with all energy savings made converted to donations for local
Romania will begin to sell its surplus of carbon dioxide emission certificates to the interested states following a relevant resolution approved Wednesday by the government, announced Economy Minister Adriean Videanu. According to the official, the resolution sets the legal and institutional framework for the development of the green investment schemes, aimed at the efficient use of the CO2 emissions surplus. The certificates total 300 million tons of CO2 emissions to be sold by one million ton packages, added the minister. A governmental working group is to be set up to start the talks with the states interested in the Romanian permits, the group including officials
Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company announced today that a coalition of global investors from 13 countries has commended the Company for its leadership in reporting on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) activities. The coalition of investors also praised the Group for producing a "high quality sustainability report deemed useful for investors" in 2009.
The investment group members, who manage more than
US$2.1 trillion of assets, are all signatories to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment Initiative (PRI) which supports the sustainable development goals of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). In assessing the 2009 reporting performances of publicly listed UNGC companies, the global investors
Unilevers subsidiaries in Kenya and Tanzania have attracted the most attention for having run the most innovative corporate social responsibility campaigns. The company has been nominated six times as a finalist in the four categories to be awarded in the inaugural East African CSR Awards to be held as a side event on May 6 during the World Economic Forum in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Other Kenyan firms that have been nominated as finalists include Safaricom Foundation, Mabati Rolling Mills, EABL Foundation, KCB, Eastern Produce Kenya, KenCall and Microsoft. These firms will be competing for recognition for having developed innovative programmes in four categories; Best work place practices, excellence in environmental management, ethical business pract
Deutsche Post DHL says it has improved its Carbon Efficiency Index by three points, handled some 1,300 tonnes of relief supplies in earthquake-stricken areas, launched an initiative that helps schools located in socially troubled neighbourhoods, and managed to increase the number of GoGreen shipments from 145 to 700 million. Chief executive Frank Appel said: "We can be successful only if we focus on sustainable development. This means doing business in a sustainable and successful manner and assuming our social responsibility. In its Corporate Responsibility Report 2009/2010, Deutsche Post DHL set out its three programmes: GoGreen: Reducing CO2 emissions helps the company reach its overarching goal: By 2020, it intends to improve CO2 efficiency throu
L&Qs Vale Street development in Lambeth has won the top award in the Most Eco Aware category of the First Time Buyer Readers Awards 2010. Vale Street is L&Qs landmark sustainable development. It includes 60 homes for a mixture of affordable rent and part buy, part rent. It was the first in London to be completed to level four of the Code for Sustainable Homes. The awards were held on the 22nd April and presented by TV property expert Phil Spencer. First Time Buyer publisher Linda Riley lauded all the nominees for their sterling efforts in assisting thousands of first time buyers on to the property ladder against a difficult background for the market in general. Robin Feeley, L&Qs Head of Sustainable Development, said: This is real tes
The Lemelson-MIT Program today announced BP Agrawal as the recipient of the 2010 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability in recognition of his creation of a community-driven rainwater harvesting system that alleviates shortages in rural India. The system "rents rooftops from homeowners and channels the rooftop rainwater through gutters and pipes to a network of underground storage reservoirs," the program said in a press release. "This network of reservoirs is designed to provide 10 - 12 liters of water daily to every person in an entire village for a year." Agrawal will accept the award and present his innovations to the public at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the Lemelson-MIT Program's fourth-annual EurekaFest, a multi-day celebratio
The Australian government has ditched its controversial plans for a national carbon trading scheme in the face of mounting political and public opposition to the proposals. According to reports in the
Australian newspaper, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has finally dropped plans for an emissions trading scheme, confirming that the proposals will not be revisited until 2013 at the earliest. "That [delay] will provide the Australian government at the time with a better position to assess the level of global action on climate change," he said. Rudd who has attempted to pass the legislation that would enable an emissions trading scheme on two Microsoft Corporation today pledged to reduce its carbon emmission by approximately 10% over the next year, with the aim of reducing total group emmission to 45% by 2020, in line with goals outlined in its sustainability report earlier in the year.Romania to sell Carbon credits
Microsoft CSR reporting
Coca-Cola Hellenic Recognised as a Leader in CSR Reporting
Unilever shines in African CSR awards
CSR can boost employee engagement
Some 40% of the 1,000 employees questioned said they think their organisation is genuinely committed to CSR.
Anne Herman, research consultant at the Kenexa Research Institute, said: "Our research clearly indicates that organisations operating with a strong corporate responsibility climate
Deutsche Post DHL announces CSR achievements
LQ wins Most Eco Aware award for landmark development
BP wins Lemelson award
Austrailia drops carbon trade plan
Microsoft pledges to reduce carbon
