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10 Years of HelpAlliance

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In September 1999, 13 Lufthansa employees (called Lufthanseat in Germany) from all divisions of the group founded HelpAlliance e.V. – Lufthanseat engagieren sich (Employees Lend a Helping Hand). In 2009, the employees’ politically independent and non-denominational organization celebrated its 10th anniversary. The organization is looking back on more than 60 successfully finished or still-running projects and numerous supporting operations. Emergency aid, such as for the 2004 tsunami disaster, is also part of HelpAlliance’s short history. more[...] login_required

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10 Years of HelpAlliance

Ralf Steuer, Lufhansa
Deutsche Lufthansa AG

In September 1999, 13 Lufthansa employees (called Lufthanseat in Germany) from all divisions of the group founded HelpAlliance e.V. – Lufthanseat engagieren sich (Employees Lend a Helping Hand). In 2009, the employees’ politically independent and non-denominational organization celebrated its 10th anniversary. The organization is looking back on more than 60 successfully finished or still-running projects and numerous supporting operations. Emergency aid, such as for the 2004 tsunami disaster, is also part of HelpAlliance’s short history. more[...]

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Betting On Environmental Sustainability and Balance

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ISA is the biggest energy transport company in Colombia and also present in Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and throughout Central America. Through its affiliates and subsidiaries, the company conducts a range of activities such as design, construction, administration, operation of lineal infrastructure systems in electricity, telecommunications connectivity, and highway construction with the project Autopistas de la Montaña. more[...] login_required

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Betting On Environmental Sustainability and Balance

Ana María Naranjo, ISA
Jimena Maria Toro, ISA

ISA is the biggest energy transport company in Colombia and also present in Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and throughout Central America. Through its affiliates and subsidiaries, the company conducts a range of activities such as design, construction, administration, operation of lineal infrastructure systems in electricity, telecommunications connectivity, and highway construction with the project Autopistas de la Montaña. more[...]

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Eagle Conservation Project

Francisco Parada, Redes Energéticas Nacionais - REN
REN

In keeping with its policy of supporting a precautionary approach to environmental challenges and promoting greater environmental responsibility, REN decided to co-sponsor the CEAI Bonelli’s eagle (Hieraaetus fasciatus) conservation project aimed at preserving this species and its habitats in Portugal. more[...] login_required

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Human Rights

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Master Plan for Mauritius

Gerd Pfitzenmeier
Medine

Established on the island of Mauritius in 1911, Medine originally grew and processed sugar cane. But since then, the importance of tourism and other service areas has steadily grown. The ‘Fondation Medine Horizons’(FMH), which the company established for this purpose, promotes optimism and entrepreneurial self-help, states the GC report “Africa leads”. more[...] login_required

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Being an Avatar for a Sustainable World

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Climate change has become by far the most important environmental issue and will take an increasingly prominent position within the policy discussions in Sweden, the European Union, and the rest of the world in the coming years and decades. In 2009 Folksam launched a project focusing on the energy industry to help lead the way toward a sustainable society. more[...] login_required

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Being an Avatar for a Sustainable World

Carina Lundberg Markow, Folksam
Folksam

Climate change has become by far the most important environmental issue and will take an increasingly prominent position within the policy discussions in Sweden, the European Union, and the rest of the world in the coming years and decades. more[...]

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Kampoeng Djamoe Organik Martha Tilaar

Nuning S. Barwa, Martha Tilaar Group
Martha Tilaar Group

Martha Tilaar Group is one of Indonesia’s foremost purveyors of innovative, high-quality beauty products and services. With its wide-ranging stable of sub-brands under the Martha Tilaar umbrella brand, the group offers an impressive array of beauty and well-being choices for women of all ages and income groups. While many of its products and treatments feature the ancient wisdom of traditional Indonesian herbal ingredients (jamu) and other natural plant extracts, Martha Tilaar also produces a wide variety of up-to-the-minute color cosmetics and skincare, body care and hair care products for the modern woman. more[...] login_required

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Kampoeng Djamoe Organik Martha Tilaar

Nuning S. Barwa, Martha Tilaar Group

From its humble beginnings as a beauty salon in the early 1970s, the company has grown into an integrated, world-class, total beauty provider which exports its products all over the world. The company’s key brands have won numerous prizes and consistently achieved the country’s highest ratings for brand awareness, reflecting Martha Tilaar’s strong focus on beauty products specifically designed for the Eastern woman. more[...]

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Collaborating to conserve ecosystems and biodiversity

Stefanie Koch, Holcim
Rashila Tong, Holcim
Lafarge Holcim

Conserving ecosystems and stopping biodiversity loss is one of the major issues of our time, in particular in situations where industrial activities and population growth put increasing pressure on natural habitats. Believing that this issue can only be addressed by working together, leading building materials company Holcim and IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, have joined forces to effectively manage biodiversity conservation and to create biodiversity-based sustainable livelihoods. more[...] login_required

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Climate Protection at Deutsche Bank

Prof. Hanns Michael Hölz

Companies need to act sustainably to maintain the trust of the societies in which they operate. Climate protection has an important role to play here. Deutsche Bank is active in the following areas: financial intermediary, environmental efficiency manager and climate ambassador. more[...]

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A Self-Assessment Tool to Accompany Our Suppliers in Their Sustainable Development Approach

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Since more than 15 years, Carrefour has shown its leadership through its commitments (1st French company to build a partnership with WWF to work on environmental issues in 1998, providing its own brand products suppliers with a sustainability self-assessment tool) and its product innovation (1st French retailer to propose a green energy offer at competitive price in 2009, organic healthcare range of own brand products in 2008). more[...] login_required

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A Self-Assessment Tool to Accompany Our Suppliers in Their Sustainable Development Approach

Hélène Jessua
Carrefour Group

Within the framework of its sustainable development approach and its commitment to the respect for the Global Compact Principles regarding the environment (Principles 7, 8, and 9), Carrefour has created a sustainable development self-assessment tool to encourage its suppliers to implement a sustainability approach. Adapted to SMEs, this tool covers all the areas of a company at the social and environmental levels. more[...]

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