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Corporate Responsibility
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Our Corporate Responsibility commitments
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Our business is actively engaged in addressing a key environmental problem – climate change. And we recognise that in the execution of that business, we give rise to impacts on the environment as well as the communities and people in our supply chain, safety risks and, by the nature of the issues we are addressing, we have an influence on stakeholder positions and government policies on climate change.
We run our business in compliance with relevant national and regional regulatory requirements. But our aim is to do better, and to continuously improve our overall contribution in our spheres of influence.
Therefore, as part of our routine business process, we identify and manage those environmental, safety and corporate social responsibility issues which have a material impact on the biological and socio-economic systems upon which our business success is dependent. For issues over which we do not have direct control, we promote the adoption of appropriate management programmes by our commercial partners and customers.
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Our Corporate Responsibility programme
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Our corporate social responsibility programme to manage issues over which we have direct control covers five key areas which we have assessed as being material to the way we run our business, and where our achievements will make a difference to the wider socio-economic environment. Our management programme for these areas is summarised in the table below. |
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What we’ve done & are going to do in the year ending 30 June 2006
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Forward plans, Commitments & Targets for the year ending 30 June 2007
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Stakeholder engagement on climate change
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Developed, in consultation with key stakeholders, the proprietary CarbonNeutral protocol and standard.
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Contribute to the development of an independent, public standard for beyond-compliance action on climate change.
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Supporting the wider society in areas related to our business
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Provided financial support to Transparency International’s Forestry Integrity Network (FIN) to reduce uncontrolled destruction of natural forests from corrupt practices.
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Formalise support for staff interest in local and global community issues by providing time (1 day per year) and matched funding for involvement in a project or activity nominated by staff.
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Health, safety, and well-being of our staff
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Provide cash benefit to staff using public transport and cycles; conduct of staff-specific ergonomics assessments and remedial plans.
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Initiate a formal, annual staff satisfaction survey; provide subsidised access to health and fitness facilities in office locality; provide free bi-annual health checks.
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Resource usage and emissions from offices and operations
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Continued status as a CarbonNeutral company (operations and business travel). In office recycling scheme (no targets). Renewable energy tariff for offices.
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Continue CarbonNeutral status. (1.) Measure and set target for paper usage and recycling. Establish and implement a programme to select preferred suppliers in areas making up 60% of our purchases.
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Transparency and integrity of business transactions
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3rd year of independent external verification of compliance to the CarbonNeutral standard. Disclosure of material business information on website.
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Publish revised and strengthened CarbonNeutral protocol; 4th independent verification. Strengthen selection criteria of carbon offset partners with respect to internationally accepted standards for ethical trading. Publish self-standing financial and corporate responsibility report.
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(1.) Click here for 2006/2007 company carbon footprint
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This is the first time that we report at this level of detail, and from the year ending 30 June 2007 forward we will report on our progress against the stated commitments and targets. |
Management responsibility
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Accountability for our corporate responsibility policy and programme is vested with the Chief Executive Officer of The CarbonNeutral Company who is accountable to the Board of the Company for its development and implementation. |
Reporting and communicating our objectives and progress
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We communicate our progress on our corporate social responsibility programme annually.
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SIGNED: Jonathan Shopley
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TITLE: Executive Director – The CarbonNeutral Company
DATE: January 2006 |
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