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Unilever and World Heart Federation announce new initiative
Unilever and the World Heart Federation announce a joint initiative to promote awareness of Heart Age - a new, personally motivating way of expressing an individual’s risk of developing heart disease and stroke. At the launch of the initiative, cardiovascular disease (CVD) experts - including Professor Pekka Puska (President, World Heart Federation) and Professor Rod Jackson (Head of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Auckland) - pledged their support for the new concept, which they believe could help in the global effort to reduce CVD, the leading cause of premature death worldwide… Read more
12 June 2009
1000 Accor hotels to join the Plant for the Planet programme
The hotel group Accor has announced that by April 2010 some 1,000 Accor hotels will be actively involved in Plant for the Planet: the Billion Tree Campaign, an initiative launched last year in association with the United Nations Environment Program. This global reforestation programme is designed to finance seven tree-planting projects around the world. Accor has pledged to donate 50% of the savings on laundry costs resulting from the responsible behaviour of hotel operators and their customers. An awareness-building campaign has been organized in participating hotels, asking customers to keep their bath towels for more than one night… Read more
10 June 2009
Enel publishes 2008 Sustainability Report
For the consecutive seventh year Enel has published its Sustainability Report. The report follows the GRI-G3 guidelines as well as some of the new GRI EUSS (Electric Utilities Sector Supplement) indicators, which Enel, has been helping to develop with GRI over the past three years.The report says that with the creation of Enel Green Power, dedicated to the development and management of energy generation from renewable sources at the international level, Enel will now be able 'to play a leading role in a market segment with an extremely high potential for growth even in periods, like the current one, when the economy slows down'… Read more
09 June 2009
BITC publishes 2009 CR Index
The results of the UK's leading voluntary benchmark of corporate responsibility were announced on 10 June at the Business in the Community conference ‘A New Era of Responsibility‘. This year 141 businesses participated in Business in the Community's (BITC) Corporate Responsibility Index (CR Index), with seven companies achieving the new Platinum Plus level. Highlights from the index submissions this year were:This year we have seen more movement than ever with 22% new entrants, 31 companies have moved up a band and 11 have improved by 10 points or more… Read more
09 June 2009
Alcatel-Lucent celebrates “International Days of Caring” in India
Alcatel-Lucent celebrated the International Days of Caring (IDOC) in India on 8 June 2009. Sponsored by the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation, IDOC is an employee volunteer initiative that takes place around the world to address key community needs and issues.As part of this global initiative, Alcatel-Lucent in India organized volunteer activities in Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Chennai in association with leading non- governmental organisations (NGOs).Among the activities Alcatel-Lucent employees in India have engaged in are, for example, life skills training for homeless elders and children from the slums with NGOs ARUWE and GoodLife in Chennai and a day of competitions and cultural events for disadvantaged people from three NGOs in Bangalore… Read more
09 June 2009
Business & Society Belgium conference on proactive stakeholder engagement
Business & Society Belgium, CSR Europe's Belgian national partner organisation, will host a conference on Proactive Stakeholder Engagement on 2 July 2009 in Brussels.The conference covers topics such as identification and prioritisation of stakeholder groups, tools and methods for stakeholder engagement, risks and opportunities involved, as well as practical examples. The conference will present the practical guide « Proactive Stakeholder Engagement » developed by ORSE, CSR Europe's French national partner, in the framework of their CSR Laboratory on Proactive Stakeholder Engagement… Read more
08 June 2009
SAP publishes 2008 Sustainability Report
SAP has published the SAP 2008 Sustainability Report which reflects its dual responsibility to contribute to sustainability through direct corporate performance and the development of solutions to better enable its customers to meet the sustainability challenge. The interactive report also includes access to the SAP Sustainability Forum where stakeholders may freely offer comment online, join the debate and/or participate in an open stakeholder survey.The report is available from http://www.reportalert.info/ra/profiles/SAP/2009/?ID=26160
08 June 2009
Toyota's Eco-Schools Programme presented at 5th World Environmental Education Congress
The Eco-Schools Programme, supported by the Toyota Fund for Europe (TFfE), recently participated in the 5th World Environmental Education Congress in Montréal, Canada from 10 to 14 May 2009. The International Coordinator of the programme, Estela G. Pereira, presented the programme which enables children to improve the environment by planning and implementing their own creative ideas. Eco-Schools has now been implemented around the world, and the number of countries participating grows by three or four each year… Read more
08 June 2009
Alcatel-Lucent Foundation sponsors US study trip to Cercle Passeport Télécoms students
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that 22 college students will be traveling to America after having successfully participated in the Cercle Passeport Télécoms (Telecoms Passport Circle) “We Made It!” competition. The students will be in the New York area from June 12 to 18, with the trip sponsored by the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Alcatel-Lucent. The Cercle Passeport Télécoms programme consists of seven telecom companies (Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson France, Gemalto, Nokia France, Nokia Siemens Networks, Orange, SFR) that have joined forces with the French public institutions to support young people from disadvantaged areas in France throughout their studies and into the world of work… Read more
08 June 2009
L'Oréal celebrates 100 years and reaffirms commitment to corporate responsibility
In conjunction with the celebration of its centenary, L’Oréal has announced the roll-out of 100 citizen projects designed to assist and support the most vulnerable communities on a local level through concrete initiatives. The 100 projects, initiated and supported by the group’s affiliates around the world, are based on the three central axes of the group’s corporate philanthropy activities: education, encouraging self-esteem, and the promotion of scientific research… Read more
05 June 2009
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