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BITC: European Employee Volunteering Awards set off
Business in the Community's International Team has today launched the European Employee Volunteering Awards to reward companies of all sizes across Europe that have developed employee volunteering schemes, which are helping people facing barriers to work increase their employability skills. One of the first Europe-wide Awards of its kind, the European Employee Volunteering Awards is co-funded by the European Commission and the programme of activities will be closely aligned to the European Year of Volunteering 2011… Read more
17 August 2010
SAP releases sustainability update including carbon for the second quarter
SAP AG released its quarterly sustainability update with a preliminary, unaudited CO2 emissions report for the second quarter ending June 30, 2010. The company's worldwide CO2 emissions slightly decreased to 115 kilotonnes from 120 kilotonnes in the previous quarter. Despite a surge in business travel prompted by the economic recovery, SAP was able to lower its overall carbon footprint in the second quarter from the levels of the first quarter by reducing its energy consumption and increasing the purchase of renewable electricity… Read more
11 August 2010
ArcelorMittal supporting awareness on business and human rights practices in Liberia
The Corporate Responsibility Forum of Liberia recently held a workshop on Business and Human Rights in Monrovia. This workshop was the first of a series of five capacity building and knowledge transfer workshops under the Forum's Capacity Building for Better Business in Liberia (C3B) project. Hailed as the first of its kind in Liberia, the workshop highlighted the significance of human rights to business operations and provided guidance on the implementation of standards and practices for a stable and productive business environment… Read more
11 August 2010
Volkswagen presents worldwide research alliance on electric mobility
Volkswagen Group invests over five billion euros a year in research and development; 23,000 employees are active in this area worldwide. In terms of research, e-mobility has a key function for the automobile of tomorrow. Group Research at the headquarters in Wolfsburg is responsible for all the brands of Volkswagen AG. Research assignments and results are coordinated there. Group Research conducts international trend and technology scouting with their own research satellites for the purpose of strategic alignment in the primary global markets… Read more
11 August 2010
Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion named WHAT CAR? Green Car of the Year
On 15 July 2010 Volkswagen's BlueMotion range of vehicles has added a further three awards - including overall Green Car of the Year - to its list of accolades, this time at the What Car? Green Awards 2010 which were presented at a ceremony at Twickenham Stadium in London. The Golf BlueMotion was named best Green Small Family Car, and also beat eight other category winners to claim the overall Green Car of the Year title. The Passat BlueMotion won the Green Family Car award. Read more (Source: Volkswagen)
11 August 2010
The Montepaschi Group handling its environmental impact through Green IT savings
The Green Information Technology, ie. ecologically sustainable IT involving the gradual implementation of IT technologies and solutions with low environmental impact, has been a significant contribution to the Group's performance. The more recent initiatives coordinated by the Operating Consortium, the Group's IT company, include the replacement of servers in the data processing center in Siena with 352 new machines equipped with highly-efficient INTEL processors. This solution has led to a reduction in energy consumption by over 1… Read more
10 August 2010
Pirelli involved with the European Agency for Health and Safety at Work on safe maintenance
Pirelli has joined the "Safe and Healthy Working Environment" campaign of the European Agency for Health and Safety at Work (EU-OSHA). The new 2010-2011 campaign, launched recently by the European Commissioner for Work, Social Policies and Integration László Andor, focuses on Safe Maintenance. Among the activities that Pirelli will promote is the organisation of an HSE Pirelli International meeting at one of the premises at which an EU-OSHA delegation will participate, and the external diffusion of good maintenance practices… Read more
10 August 2010
4th Intel-AIM Corporate Responsibility Awards - Call for nominations
Nominations are now being accepted for the Intel - AIM Corporate Responsibility Awards (IACRA), an integral component of the Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility (AFCSR) to be held on October 21 and 22 in Kuala Lumpur. IACRA honors specific companies and organizations in Asia for CSR projects in one or more of the following areas: education, community involvement, environmental stewardship, and poverty alleviation. The award is for an organization (in some cases through its corporate foundation, or in rare cases, an individual) that has best made CSR in one or more of these areas an integral part of the way they do business and has implemented interesting, innovative and impactful CSR projects or programs in a sustainable manner… Read more
10 August 2010
Responsible Business Forum organizing CSR MarketPlace to be held on October 20th in Warsaw, Poland
CSR MarketPlace is a unique opportunity to present company's engagement in CSR activities. The event will feature several initiatives that companies implement in the domain of workplace, marketplace, community, and natural environment. It is a place to share experience and discuss with stakeholders. The objective of the MarketPlace is to disseminate the idea of corporate social responsibility among employers, employees and local communities. This event is directed at anyone interested in CSR or sustainability issues… Read more
10 August 2010
Measuring the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility: Does CSR matter?
Öko-Institut and EABIS together with a consortium of fourteen leading European research institutions launched on August 23 the project website for a unique research project that measures the impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): www.csr-impact.eu. It will generate evidence and new insights if and how CSR impacts on sustainability and competitiveness in the EU 27. It will develop a conceptual framework and test existing and new tools for impact measurement. A large-scale transdisciplinary empirical investigation into CSR impacts will be carried out, combining qualitative and quantitative methods… Read more
10 August 2010
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