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Closing soon: Public Consultation on Circular Economy
Before the end of 2015, the European Commission will present a new and more ambitious Circular Economy Package. In order to collect views on the main policy options and measures explored for this initiative, the Commission opened a public consultation on 25 May (and organised a Conference on 25...
Closing soon: Public Consultation on the Handbook for Sustainability Impact Assessment of EU trade negotiations
The European Commission is updating its 2006 Handbook on Sustainability Impact Assessments (SIA). Before publishing a revised version later this year, the Commission is consulting stakeholders on its draft revised Handbook.
SIAs are a trade-specific tool developed for supporting trade...
CSR Europe pledges under European Alliance for Apprenticeships
CSR Europe pledged under the European Alliance for Apprenticeships, which got a new boost on 22 June 2015 in Riga. The European Alliance for Apprenticeships (EAfA) brings together public authorities, businesses, social partners, chambers, vocational education and training (VET) providers, youth...
Coca-Cola Enterprises publishes 10th annual Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) Report
Yesterday, Coca-Cola Enterprises published its 10th Annual Corporate Reponsibility and Sustainability report. The report includes ambitious sustainability targets, including a commitment to halve the carbon footprint of core business operations by 2020. The targets were developed following a...
Novartis releases 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report
Novartis has just published its Corporate Responsibility (CR) Performance Report for 2014.
The organisation, which has a strong history of CR activities, offers additional historical data, context and consolidation on the company's CR data in the report. The new report is structured in...
Novartis is updating its Materiality Assessment
This year, Novartis is updating its Corporate Responsibility Materiality Assessment, which was conducted in 2013. The company is seeking input and perspectives from stakeholders.
If you are interested in contributing, please follow this link to complete an online survey, in which you can...
Coca-Cola HBC publishes third integrated report
The report is the first to contain information on all aspects of business, which include financial, governance and sustainability performance.
Some of the impacts and outputs detailed in the report include:
European Commission releases analysis of companies' reference to CSR guidelines
The European Commission has released the results of its study into the extent to which companies make reference to specified and internationally accepted CSR guidelines in their own CSR strategy. The EC examined the frequency of references to five particular instruments which make up "an...