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Unilever commits to sustainably source 100% of paper and board packaging by 2020
As part of the company's commitment to promote sustainable forestry practices and help combat deforestation and climate change, Unilever has released its sustainable paper and board packaging sourcing policy that clearly defines the company's paper sourcing goals over the next decade. Unilever set a target goal to source 75 percent of its paper and board packaging from sustainably managed forests or from recycled material by 2015, reaching 100 percent by 2020. Currently, 62 percent of Unilever's paper and board was "sustainably sourced," reports Packaging News… Read more
12 July 2010
European Competition on 'Good practice in cities and municipalities in Europe for and with elderly migrants'
The European Commission is supporting a project on Active Ageing of Migrant Elders across Europe (AEMEE project) which is realised by the Ministry of Intergenerational Affairs, Family, Women and Integration of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The AAMEE project focuses on the promotion of active ageing and social, cultural and economic integration of migrant and minority ethnic elders. It emphases volunteer activities and the emergence of new culturally sensitive products and services in the fields of housing, care, education, leisure, culture and marketing… Read more
12 July 2010
Alcatel-Lucent Foundation supports Off Road Kids Foundation in Germany
The Alcatel-Lucent Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Alcatel-Lucent is supporting the street-worker initiative Off Road Kids in Germany this year with a donation of US$110,000. This is the largest charitable project carried out by the Foundation in Germany to date. Off Road Kids is dedicated to give new perspectives to street children in Germany. It is the only relief organization in this field which is operating country-wide. Existing entirely on donations, without any state subsidies, the organisation runs street-work stations in Berlin, Hamburg, Dortmund and Cologne… Read more
12 July 2010
Dow Water & Process Solutions unveiled new electrodeionization technology
Dow Water & Process Solutions, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Co. and its consolidated subsidiaries (Dow) and a global supplier of advanced technologies for purification and separation processes, announced at the beginning of July that the next generation of its electrodeionization (EDI) product for industrial water treatment is available globally. "Dow EDI modules optimize performance, maintain continuous product quality and can produce up to 18 megaohm-cm of water for high-purity and industrial water applications," said Lance Johnson, global commercial director for Dow Water & Process Solutions… Read more
12 July 2010
Orange backs India’s best brains to study in France
Orange Business Services, along with the Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs, has conferred Orange Scholarship Awards to 13 Indian students, who have been chosen to study in France's leading universities. Orange Business Services India awarded scholarship certificates to 13 young engineering graduates on July 8. The long-term objective for Orange is to encourage high quality young talent to acquire technological and multicultural expertise facilitating immediate industrial insertion through a wider Orange initiative, the Campus ITN… Read more
12 July 2010
Global Reporting Initiative and Carbon Disclosure Project release linkage document
Both GRI's Reporting Framework and CDP's Questionnaire invite reporting on GHG emissions and climate change. The GRI Guidelines, however, cover the broader elements of sustainability reporting, and ESG in particular. With over 1,300 organizations from 64 countries that published a GRI based sustainability report in 2009, and 2,500 organizations around the world that used CDP's questionnaire to report their climate change data, the two organizations have agreed to collaborate and feedback on each other's general and sector-specific guidelines and questionnaires. Read more (Source: GRI)
12 July 2010
L’Oréal made its 2009 Sustainable Development report public
Cosmetics company L'Oréal has published its 2009 Sustainable Development Report in the form of an integrated website. The report outlines 'The L'Oréal Spirit', which forms the framework for the company's policies on corporate governance, environmental stewardship, health and safety, social affairs and diversity, supplier relations, sustainable innovation, consumer responsibility and philanthropy. The company says: 'One should not confuse ethics with a "politically correct" collective posture, which is aligned with the specific moral criteria of its time… Read more
12 July 2010
UK government hopes to encourage more small-scale renewable generation
The government has launched on July 12 a consultation on a microgeneration strategy for household and business use of green technologies less than 50 kW in size, and heat generating technologies less than 300 kW in size. The plans are parts of a move to overturn a ban on councils selling green electricity into the national grid. Through microgeneration homes, schools and businesses can get cash payments through the 'feed-in tariff' for producing their own green electricity through solar panels or small wind turbines, as well as for selling it to the national grid… Read more
12 July 2010
Coca Cola Hellenic involved in cross-water co-operation
In the true spirit of international co-operation, hundreds of young volunteers from the Ukraine and neighbouring Romania have been working together to tackle pollution on both banks of the River Tisza which separates the two countries. For the last five years, Coca‑Cola Hellenic in partnership with The Coca‑Cola Company and the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River have supported, assisted and funded numerous key projects and strategies to safeguard the river and its tributaries from the further impacts of climate change and pollution… Read more
12 July 2010
Jardines de Cosecha Programme implemented in collaboration with Randstad’s operating company in Argentina
After a pilot experience developed last year, the Jardines de Cosecha Programme is being implemented more intensively reaching up to 7 day care centres in the province of Salta, Argentina. This programme was created due to a need expressly stated by the mothers' children who work in tobacco plantations. They said that they do not have anyone to care for their children while they are at work. The mentioned initiative includes children between 1 and 8 years old that live in the tobacco rural area. The programme has been developed with the support of SESA Select, one of Randstad's operating companies… Read more
12 July 2010
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