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Grundfos Reuses Wastewater

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In the future, water supplies will be even scarcer than is presently the case. Action must be taken in order to solve the problem. Climate change causes a number of different problems. As regards water resources, climate change affects the environment in a number of different ways. more[...] login_required

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Grundfos Reuses Wastewater

Grundfos

In the future, water supplies will be even scarcer than is presently the case. Action must be taken in order to solve the problem. Climate change causes a number of different problems. As regards water resources, climate change affects the environment in a number of different ways. more[...]

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Coop Naturaline – Fashion & Fairness

Emma Arvidsson, Coop
Simona Matt, Coop
Coop

In close partnership with Remei AG, Coop ensures organic cotton production, ecological processing and fair working conditions along the entire textile supply chain. This is guaranteed by strict independent controls. more[...] login_required

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Coop Naturaline – Fashion & Fairness

Emma Arvidsson, Coop
Simona Matt, Coop
Coop

Coop launched its Naturaline brand in 1993. Today, the company is one of the world’s largest retailers of Fairtrade organic cotton. Coop has worked with REMEI AG since 1994. Together, they have developed a set of social and ecological requirements for fashionwear. more[...]

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Efficient Household Appliances Are Good for the Environment and Your Wallet

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Energy efficient Home Appliances can make a considerable contribution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Studies completed by independent bodies have found that home appliances make a significant contribution to reducing energy consumption and global warming. A ten year old refrigerator consumes up to five times as much energy as a comparable new model. more[...] login_required

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Efficient Household Appliances Are Good for the Environment and Your Wallet

Fridolin Weindl, BSH

Accounting for almost 30 percent of consumption, private households are the second-largest source of energy use and, with 21 percent, the third-largest source of CO2 emissions worldwide. Electrical appliances, in turn, account for almost half of the entire electricity use in private households. more[...] login_required

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Green Technology: Solutions for Climate Change

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The Bosch Group is facing the challenge of the climate change. Considering the eminent importance and vast implications of the topic, as an individual or as a single company one might falter faced with such a challenge. At Bosch, however, we are convinced that innovative technology – already in place or yet to be developed – has considerable potential in creating and finding solutions. more[...]

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Green Technology: Solutions for Climate Change

Bosch Group

The Bosch Group is facing the challenge of the climate change. Considering the eminent importance and vast implications of the topic, as an individual or as a single company one might falter faced with such a challenge. At Bosch, however, we are convinced that innovative technology – already in place or yet to be developed – has considerable potential in creating and finding solutions. more[...]

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The Green Imperative

Steffen Frankenberg, Deutsche Post DHL
Deutsche Post DHL

Deutsche Post DHL became a signatory to the UN Global Compact in June 2006. At that time, we sought to align our internal environmental commitment and approach with key external international standards. Accepting our environmental responsibility continues to be a challenge and opportunity for us as we seek ways to adapt our business processes and culture to addressing the environmental challenges we face today. Our environmental strategy has three pillars: tackling climate change, improving our overall environmental performance, and minimizing our use of natural resources. more[...] login_required

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Frankenberg, Steffen

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The microfinance revolution has only just begun

Prof. Hanns Michael Hölz
Deutsche Bank AG

Microcredits have proven to be powerful instruments in the fight against poverty. However, they will reach their full impact only if they manage to limit their reliance on the charitable sector. “The genocide brought the destruction of my parents’ retail shop“, Nsengiyma Gilbert from Rwanda explains. “It ended in ruins and in the brutal killing of my father. After the war, I dropped out of school, crisscrossed Kigali in search for a job to no avail. Then the idea of selling milk to a nearby kindergarten school near my home came to me. However, the earnings from this business were not enough to buy me a refrigerator and enable me rent a bigger place to start a restaurant,” Gilbert says. more[...]

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Hölz, Hanns Michael

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Indigenously Produced Organic Fruit

Gerd Pfitzenmeier

“Without the cooperation with the indigenous people,” Xavier Richard knows, “our company would never have been able to thrive as it has.” Since its establishment in 1987, Amazon Caribbean Ltd. (Amcar) has relied on the efforts of thousands of indigenous people from the Arawack, Warrau and Carib tribes in Guyana. In the jungle of the Barima-Waini Basin, they collect the raw materials for Amcar’s products: hearts of palm and pineapple. “Our mission,” the company states accordingly, “is to generate, in partnership with the people in Guyana, economic value added from naturally growing products.” more[...]

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Investing in a Sustainable Future

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The Dansk Bank Group believes that a higher level of education and financial literacy is crucial in maintaining stable economic growth. In 2008, Danske Bank therefore established The Financial Literacy Programme (including initiatives for customers as well as non-customers from the age of 5 up to the age of 27) dedicated to improving the level of financial literacy education and therefore started with initiatives for children. more[...] login_required

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Bengt Petersen, Charlotte

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