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Standards und Audits

Für Unternehmen ist es essentiell, über funktionierende Lieferanten zu verfügen, um auf dem internationalen Markt bestehen zu können. Auch wenn ein Unternehmen nicht die Fabriken besitzt, in denen die jeweiligen Produkte hergestellt werden, so hat es doch die Verantwortung, dass in der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette menschenwürdige Arbeitsbedingungen herrschen. Neben regulären Qualitätsüberprüfungen werden so genannte Sozialaudits immer wichtiger, um Transparenz im Bereich Arbeits- und Menschenrechte in der Lieferkette herzustellen. Audits müssen als Teil der Unternehmensstrategie angesehen werden und deren Durchführung vertraglich mit den Lieferanten geregelt sein. more[...]

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Introduction to Voluntary Sustainability Standards

Kristin Komives, ISEAL Alliance
ISEAL Alliance

Private, voluntary sustainability standards are an innovative, market-based approach to promoting sustainable production and business practices. Adoption of these sustainability standards is intended to be voluntary: The standards are not created, run, or required by governments or government regulation. Instead, the system for voluntary sustainability standards are nongovernment initiatives that seek to drive sustainable production and consumption by creating a market demand for sustainable products, and a supply to meet that demand. They help buyers (both consumers and businesses) identify sustainably-produced products, and they guide producers, forest managers, mine and tourism operators, and factory owners and others in their choice of sustainable practices. more[...]

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Stimulating Sustainable Biofuels

Nathalie Simmenauer, Air France
Inka Pieter, KLM
AIR FRANCE KLM

As an airline group with an extensive network, Air France - KLM connects people, economies, and cultures. It has the ambition to reduce its CO2 emissions by 20 percent through 2020 in comparison to 2011 (tons / km). To find alternatives to fossil oil, the group believes innovation and partnerships within its value chain will trigger new solutions. Using this approach, Air France and KLM are committed to developing a market for sustainable biofuels. more[...]

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Audits, certifications and training courses

Editorial Team

In order to reinforce data protection and data security in the Group, Deutsche Telekom regularly carries out relevant internal audits and certifications of corporate departments. more[...] login_required

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Audit Certificate Guidance Notes – 6th Framework Programme

Editorial Team

These guidance notes have been compiled to guide research contractors and certifying entities in the preparation of audit certificates under the European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme (FP6). more[...] login_required

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Corporate Social Responsibility Audit: From Theory to Practice

This work attempts to create a framework for social responsibility auditing compatible with an existing commercially successful environmental audit system. more[...] login_required

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Ackers, Barry

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Corporate Social Responsibility: An Internal Audit Perspective

The frst part placed in this edition of the adviser considers the defnitions and responsibility for corporate social responsibility and the role that the audit profession should play. The second part, to be published in the December Adviser provides an auditing framework. more[...] login_required

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Certification Brings Positive Impacts and Better Traceability to Business

Karin Kreider, ISEAL

Eco-labels and other sustainability marks on products are the way that most people experience certification. They are a window into production practices that might have taken place thousands of miles away – the connection between a forester in Brazil and a new piece of furniture; or a fishery in the North Atlantic and a meal of fish and chips; or a tea picker in Kenya and a morning beverage. But it is not only consumers who depend on labels to make informed decisions, it is also retailers and many other participants in the supply chain who are looking to improve their performance. more[...]

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AAIB: The First Bank in Egypt to Measure Its Carbon Footprint

Perihan Abdel Ghaly, Arab African International Bank
Maha Hasebou, Arab African International Bank
Arab African International Bank

Despite the fact that Egypt is not among the top carbon dioxide emitters in the world, the notion of “the earlier … the better” has always been a key driving force for Arab African International Bank (AAIB), which is creating awareness in the banking industry about tackling climate change by measuring its carbon footprint and publishing its first Carbon Footprint Report. From Kyoto to the Rio+20 Summit the interest in global warming and climate change has grown exponentially over the past 10 years. The Kyoto Protocol was introduced in 1997 in Japan and entered into force in 2005. The Protocol’s main goal was to reduce the carbon footprint of some countries compared to the level of emissions they had in 1990. more[...]

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Reducing Carbon Emissions in Everyday Life

Dr. Nicola Schuldt-Baumgart, ISOE - Institute for Social-Ecological Research
Dr. Immanuel Stieß, ISOE - Institute for Social-Ecological Research

When it comes to protecting the climate, the focus is usually on business and industry. Less well-known is the fact that more than half of the total annual carbon footprint per person (11 tons) is the direct or indirect product of private households. more[...]

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Aligning Flows of Capital with Tackling Climate Change

James Leaton, Carbon Tracker Initiative

The Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) was set up a few years ago to investigate what levels of future carbon emissions were being financed. By comparing the stocks of carbon in the form of coal, oil, and gas in the ground with carbon budgets that equate to degrees of warming, we have demonstrated the huge overhang of carbon in our energy system – what we refer to as “unburnable carbon.” more[...]

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Leaton, James

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Hasebou, Maha

Despite the fact that Egypt is not among the top carbon dioxide emitters in the world, the notion of “the earlier … the better” has always been a key driving force for Arab African International Bank (AAIB), which is creating awareness in the banking industry about tackling climate change by measuring its carbon footprint and publishing its first Carbon Footprint Report. From Kyoto to the Rio+20 Summit the interest in global warming and climate change has grown exponentially over the past 10 years. The Kyoto Protocol was introduced in 1997 in Japan and entered into force in 2005. The Protocol’s main goal was to reduce the carbon footprint of some countries compared to the level of emissions they had in 1990. more[...] login_required

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Top-flight Compensation Projects: The Climate, People, and Animals All Benefit

Thomas Compagno, COOP
Coop

Offsetting CO2 emissions is a good thing – but there is still a hint of a “sale of indulgences.” Coop has found a solution: The Swiss retailer only invests in development projects that are either developed by the WWF according to the Gold Standard or which are supported by the WWF. They stand for maximum quality. more[...]

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