Why go beyond compliance?Examples from Hungary
BEYOND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE: DELIVERING A SUSTAINABLE EUROPEOPEN DAYS, 12 October, 2011, Bruxelles
Corporate Social ResponsibilityWhat motivates businesses?
Based on the Alternate & Brandtrend study on perceptions of CSR in Hungary, 2010
Setting an example: Greening NDA headquarters
• Printing
• Recycling
• Energy saving lights
• Bicyle storage
• Solar panels on top of the office building
• Internet based calls for project applications
Pressure? Commitment?
Delivering the softies:making horizontal principles matter
• Strengthened project design & appraisal: checklists and additional points in project selection
• A horizontal prize used to highlight environmental benefits of EU-funded projects
Multiple benefits at sewage plants
• Sewage treatment plant for Budapest fully covered
• In addition, over 2600 trees and several thousand shrubs planted to recultivate the site
• The Zalaegerszeg sewage treatment plant uses sludge to produce biomethane to fuel its own fleet and municipal public transport
Committed: conservation education project rescues listed Pannon grassland
• Zoo project designed to demonstrate plant communities in rocky habitats
• Species collected from building sites where otherwise they would have been destroyed
Why go beyond compliance?Pressure – Performance - Principles
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