Knowledge Base

Executive Management of Natural Resources

Coca-Cola Içecek Supply Chain - Turkey

2016 EFQM Excellence Award - Finalist

CCI Turkey SC is consistently working on optimising and reducing its environmental impact. Those activities have led to a consistent reduction in important environmental indicators to a best in class level compared with other organisations, e.g. water usage, waste water recycling, energy usage, waste recycling rate and CO2 emission. 

Sustainability Results

Robert Bosch, Rodez Plant

2015 EFQM Excellence Prize Winner in Sustaining Outstanding Results and Developing Organisational Capability  

RzP has a 20 year history of implementing CSR as a core strategy of its organisation. Linked with dedicated finance controllers for the different manufacturing sectors as well as facility management, maintenance, and purchasing, the combined achievement of cost and environmental targets have been achieved.  

Creating a Sustainable Future

WDH

2015 EFQM Excellence Award Winner

WDH demonstrated a constant focus on making real change through social outcomes and creating a sustainable future for itself and the Wakefield district. Business results and society results are one and the same for WDH, and are consistently achieved. 

Use of Internet Resources and Social Media

SUE "Vodokanal of St. Petersburg" - Russia

The history of Vodokanal St. Petersburg dates back to 1858. Today, Vodokanal provides potable water and sewerage services to nearly 5 Mio. inhabitants of the Russia's second largest city and to many thousands of companies using innovative technologies. Da-Voda.com is Vodokanal's social project. It is an Internet portal about water, the principal resource on the planet Earth, and about careful attitude to water resources.

Corporate Responsible Behaviour

Alcan Iceland Ltd

Alcan Iceland Ltd. (ISAL) is an aluminium producer and one of the largest companies in Iceland. Company's main goals are to increase production and productivity by investing in equipment and people. ISAL is convinced that the focus on health, safety and environment is a prerequisite for excellent performance.

Plan-it Green : EICC's Sustainable Events Programme

Edinburgh International Conference Centre - United Kingdom

The world-class Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) has been delivering outstanding events to the global events marketplace for sixteen years.  Plan-it green™ engages EICC stakeholders in a collaborative approach to delivering sustainable events. It targets reduced emissions, reduced cost and it offers a unique carbon sequestration option for the local environment.  The Good Practice in details...

Sustainable Portfolio Management

Solvay - Belgium

Solvay is an international industrial group active in chemistry, offering a broad range of products and solutions that contribute to improving the quality of life.  Solvay sees sustainability as a central aspect of its strategy in a changing world.  Since a strategic review in 2008 the company has made a number of steps to accelerate its implementation of processes to improve sustainability, including detailed analysis and reporting and business planning that explicitly considers environmental objectives within product portfolio planning.  The Good Practice in details...

Ricoh's Sustainability Optimisation Programme

Ricoh Europe

Ricoh has a long establish record for sustainability.  Ricoh is determined to keep up its efforts to realize its target of reducing its environment impact to one-eighth of the fiscal year 2000 levels by 2050 in absolute terms.  The company's philosophy is that it is important to generate profits and remain a going concern so that it could continue to contribute to reducing environmental impact and to help realize a sustainable society.

Corporate Responsibility System

Red Electrica de Espana - Spain

Red Eléctrica is part of the electricity sector. Their functional scope is: high voltage electric power transmission (400 and 220 kV) from generation plants to distribution substations and operation (power production equal to consumption plus associated management) of the national power system. One of the Key Strategies of Red Eléctrica de España (REE) is: “Excellence and Responsibility in the development of its activities”, it defines all the key processes to manage the principles of the Corporate Responsibility of Red Eléctrica.

Taking Responsibility for a Sustainable Future

Umicore Precious Metals Refining - Belgium

UPMR pays great attention to the concepts of corporate social responsibility and sustainability and has improved its approach to these concepts over years. Social responsibility towards the community and environment is embedded in the UPMR culture and widely shared by employees at all levels in the organization.

Ricoh's Sustainability Optimisation Programme

Ricoh Europe

Ricoh has found through a lifecycle analysis that the largest share of environmental impacts of a copier/printer is in the “In-use” phase, when a machine is being used by customers. It accounts for nearly 70% of the total carbon emissions of a copier/printer, coming from paper, electricity, supplies, spare parts, and service engineer travel. In Ricoh’s environmental philosophy, we have a shared responsibility with customers to reduce the environmental impact including the “In-use” phase.   The Good Practice at a glance...

Taking Responsibility for a Sustainable Future

Comarca Bilbao de Osakidetza - Spain

BiE is looking to be a role model for CSR for society as a whole and especially for the public service: they see CSR as a priority for public services to safeguard sustainable wellbeing in society. To achieve this, CSR is integrated in the values of the organisation and is clearly linked to strategic objectives, which are monitored systematically.

Taking Responsibility for a Sustainable Future

Red Electrica de Espana - Spain

Since several years a comprehensive set of perceptions, outcomes and indicators, addressing all stakeholders and being consistent with strategy and policies, is being used and covers technical, economical, people, societal, and environmental dimensions.

Plan It Green

Edinburgh International Conference Centre - United Kingdom

The world-class EICC has been delivering outstanding events to the global events marketplace for sixteen years. Plan-it green™ engages EICC's stakeholders in a collaborative approach to delivering sustainable events. It targets reduced emissions, reduced cost and it offers a unique carbon sequestration option for the local environment. The Good Practice at a glance...

Solvay's Sustainable Portolio Management

Solvay - Belgium

Solvay is an international industrial group active in Chemistry, offering a broad range of products and solutions that contribute to improving quality of life. Solvay has developed an internal methodology (Sustainable Portfolio Management ‐ SPM) to visualize, at strategic level, two potential impacts of Sustainable Development on its activities.  The Good Practice at a glance...

Development of Water Consumption culture

Vodokanal of St Petersburg - Russia

The State Unitary Enterprise "Vodokanal of St. Petersburg" (hereinafter – “Vodokanal”) provides water and wastewater services to the city of St. Petersburg. For twenty years “Vodokanal of St. Petersburg” has been carrying out an active work with customers in order to reduce (to be correct, optimize) city-specific water consumption.  The Good Practice at a glance...

CO2 free

Minerva - Italy

The company is now a leader in the design and delivery of facility management, which it has successfully applied to hospital services and also to the shipbuilding sector. Minerva CO2 Free is a development which has enabled the company to become self-sufficient for its energy needs with zero environmental impact, in addition to becoming a role model of sustainability in the region.