Umwelt
Personnel and environment – strong advantages
International concern for carbon dioxide emissions and their effect on the climate puts pressure on companies to adapt their operations to upcoming emission restrictions and customers’ demand for sustainability. At the same time a number of serious social problems in different countries have been spotlighted. This has contributed to why companies must motivate their presence and show that they follow certain basic humane rules, a Code of Conduct. This growing community interest concerning sustainable development puts greater demands on Elanders.
Elanders affects society in both equality and environmental issues and our employees and others are interested in knowing more about the company’s ambitions in these areas. Elanders has for many years worked actively and intensively to reduce environmental impact. Certification of forest products and working for positive environmental effects through lower transportation are a few examples.
An increasingly important question is how Elanders plans to progressively adapt the company to future, more stringent emission regulations and higher ethical standards. Another aspect is how this process can be advantageous from a competitive perspective for a graphic company that was certified early on.
Investors have been showing a growing interest in this question lately because the stock market sees a clearer parallel between how a company handles sustainability matters and its long-term financial results. There is a risk of being dragged through the mud, if for example a subcontractor runs into bad will problems, to the point of having to move production to another country and the enormous expense that entails. Therefore investors need guidance from the companies they invest in as to the most likely risks and the monetary effects of them.
In other words the need for Elanders to specify the sustainable goals established by the company and which processes and policies Elanders plans to use to achieve these goals is much greater than before.
Zuletzt aktualisiert:
01.04.2009
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