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CSR EUROPE 活动消息

一个有关多元化商业案例的研讨会将在欧洲举行

欧洲企业社会责任协会和Focus咨询服务公司邀请欧洲企业社会责任的会员参加6月26日在布鲁塞尔举行的“2008年有关多元化和创新的商业案例研讨和一项在欧洲发起的多元化创新的运动”。Focus是一家欧洲的多元化管理机构（EIMD）。

CSR EUROPE会员新闻

TNT配备超过100辆新型混合动力卡车形成一支绿色舰队

TNT在碳减排方面付出了双倍的努力，为英国、中国和澳大利亚市场配备了超过100辆新型的混合动力卡车。

IBM世界社区网“超级计算机”帮助解决粮食危机

出于对全球出现饥饿危机的关注，IBM和来自华盛顿大学的研究者发起了一项新的研究，旨在增强稻谷的品质，从而提高粮食的产量和营养含量。

Intertek在中国中心关注提升供应商的能力和绩效

Intertek建立了劳工和环境中国中心，这个中心致力于提供一个能力发展的平台以帮助中国的供应商提高可持续生产的能力和实践。

爱普生宣布“2050年环境规划”

日本精工爱普生公司日前公布了公司的环境远景规划，该规划包含了公司对截至2050年全球面临的环境压力的关注，以及公司如何在接下来的10年中应对这些问题。

惠普宣布帮助消费者减少打印机使用对环境影响的解决方案

惠普宣布了一项新的解决方案来帮助消费者减少在成像和印刷过程中的环境影响。这项计划包括为客户提供打印评估服务、二氧化碳排放计算器、一项全球可持续造纸业政策以及惠普生态重点标签，以次来帮助消费者确定使用惠普提供产品和服务所产生的环境影响。

可口可乐将配置10万无氟冷却

GreenBiz报道，可口可乐公司计划于2010年在全球配置10万无氟冰箱和自动贩卖机。根据Cox通讯社报道，可口可乐首席执行官Neville Isdell在5月绿色和平组织在北京举办的一场研讨会上宣布了这一计划。

安赛乐米塔尔在西班牙种植3万棵树木

安赛乐米塔尔Olaberria公司在巴斯克城种植了29820棵当地的树木，达17公顷，这些树木是工业用途。与公司的可持续发展原则相一致，安赛乐米塔尔Olaberria在追加投资以扩大生产的同时，在公司周围恢复种植17公顷树木。

欧盟观察（来自欧盟的最新动态）

欧盟推动“新社会议程”

EurActiv报道称，欧盟计划更新目前的社会议程，并将其更好地融入欧盟整个的政策框架内。其中的主要关注包括跨国界健康关怀、提高工人的权利和推动建设更好的教育体系。

欧盟推动信息通信技术（ICT）扮演绿色角色

欧盟日前宣布将推动使用信息通信技术ICT来提高能效。目前ICT行业的二氧化碳排放占到全球排放的2％。欧盟指出，推动ICT发挥绿色作用是来自于ICT提供提高能效方案以影响其余占全球98％的排放。

欧盟面临重新减排二氧化碳分配的压力

EurActiv报道称，东欧的很多成员国要求对他们的温室气体减排目标给予修正。匈牙利、保加利亚、爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚、罗马尼亚和斯洛伐克对2005年欧盟就27个成员国如何贡献欧盟20％减排的承诺提出质疑。

NEWS FROM CSR EUROPE

Business Case for Diversity Workshop on diversity and innovation and a voluntary diversity initiative for Europe

CSR Europe, Focus Consultancy Ltd, the European Institute for Managing Diversity (EIMD) invite CSR Europe members to participate in the ?008 Business Case for Diversity Workshop on Diversity and Innovation and A Voluntary Diversity Initiative for Europe?on 26 June in Brussels.

CSR EUROPES MEMBERS NEWS

TNT builds up green fleet with over 100 new electric and hybrid trucks

TNT is doubling its effort to cut carbon emissions of its road fleet with the introduction of over 100 electric trucks in the UK, China, and Australia.

IBM World Community Grid “supercomputer” to tackle rice crisis

As concerns of a global hunger crises mount, IBM and researchers at the University of Washington have launched a new program to develop stronger strains of rice that could produce crops with larger and more nutritious yields.

Interteks China Center raises the bar of suppliers capability and performance

Initiated by Intertek, the China Center for Labor and Environment is a capacity development platform aiming at contributing to continuous improvement of sustainable production methods and practices across China's supply chain base.

Epson announces its “Environmental Vision 2050”

Seiko Epson Corporation has unveiled the company's Environmental Vision for the next generation-a multi-part programme to address some of the most pressing environmental concerns facing the global community looking towards 2050 and how Epson intends to tackle them over the next 10 years.

HP launches solutions to help customers reduce environmental impact of printing

HP has unveiled new solutions to help customers reduce the environmental impact of their imaging and printing.

Coca-Cola to deploy 100K HFC-free coolers

The Coca-Cola Co. plans by 2010 to have 100,000 hydrofluorocarbon-free refrigerators and vending machines operating around the world, GreenBiz reports. The announcement came from CEO Neville Isdell at a Greenpeace-organized conference in Beijing in May, according to Cox News Service.

ArcelorMittal plants 30,000 trees in Spain

ArcelorMittal Olaberria has planted 29,820 trees of species native to the Basque Country over 17 hectares of land that had been used for industrial purposes and was now empty.

Latest News From the EU

European Commission pushing for ‘New Social Agenda

The Commission has revealed plans to update the current social agenda and better integrate it into the EU's overall policy framework, EurActiv reports. The main focus lies in addressing cross‐border health care, improving workers?rights and promoting better education systems.

European Commission casts ICT in green role

The European Commission has announced that it would promote the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) to improve energy efficiency throughout the economy. At present, the ICT sector accounts for 2% of global CO2 emissions. The real gains from green ICT will come from developing energy efficient ICT solutions that impact the other 98% of global emissions, the Commission says.

EU under pressure over CO₂ effort sharing

A group of Eastern European countries have asked for a revision of their national targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, EurActiv reports. Hungary, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia are questioning the reference year 2005 chosen by the Commission to calculate how each of the 27 EU member states will contribute to the EU's promised 20% emissions cut.

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一周要闻

美国立法者应对气候变化问题

美国参议院周一发起了有关应对气候变化的开创性立法案的讨论，法案将对二氧化碳排放设定上限，并允许公司之间买卖碳信用。该项措施到2050年将使美国的温室气体排放减少66％。

高昂的油价促使美国对燃油效率提高要求

美国消费者开始远离高耗油的车辆而转向小型的、燃油效率高的车辆，为此上周通用汽车公司宣布将关闭在美国、加拿大和墨西哥的四家专门SUV和皮卡的工厂。这是在美国国内的平均油价达到了每加仑4美元时，该公司发表上述声明。

陶氏和波音因为核工厂污染问题而被罚款

科罗拉多州丹佛市一家法院向陶氏化学公司和波音公司开出一张总计金额达9.26亿美元的罚单，以处罚Rocky Flats 核武器工厂的钚污染对当地财产所造成的损害。这场18年前发起的集体诉讼案于2006年2月落下帷幕，约有12000名原告起诉陶氏化学和Rockwell国际公司，而波音是在1996年购买了该公司的部分股份。

巴西银行获得国际可持续大奖

巴西的Banco Real S/A银行在伦敦获得了“金融时报可持续银行大奖”。这是首家来自新兴市场的银行获得该项殊荣。这家银行引领了南美银行业的可持续发展，它把社会和环境问题放在了运营业务的中心地位予以考虑，并促使其32000名员工参与到该项战略中来。

美国对中国出口的货物设定新的标准

美国卫生与公共事务部部长Mike Leavitt会见中国官员探讨了去年几起中国出口至美国商品被召回事件，同时他还宣布美国将禁止进口那些无法满足美国产品质量认证标准的中国厂商生产的产品。

沃尔玛设定新的玩具安全标准

沃尔玛公司对它的供应商发布指令，限制八种重金属和塑料软化化学试剂在儿童用品中的使用。此举是在玩具产业首开先河并替代了联邦立法。这项禁止令将促使玩具生产商寻找新的材料，更紧密的监视海外的生产工厂，并通过独立实验室更加频繁地测定产品中的金属和化学成分。

公司-非政府组织项目旨在促进全球劳工标准的遵守

“万花筒项目”是一个于2002年启动的，旨在鼓励制造商遵守劳工标准的项目。日前该项目发布了一个试点项目的最终报告， 该项目涉及10家为迪斯尼和麦当劳提供产品的中国工厂。

报告精粹

CSR对私有企业至关重要

Grant Thornton会计事务所在《2008年国际商业报告》中强调符合伦理道德的实践是私有企业获得成功的基础。根据这份报告，私有公司的企业社会责任的主要驱动力是：吸引和保留优秀的员工以及成本管理。这表明认识到成本控制对商业和环境非常有益。这也表明大公司对CSR的需要已传递到他们的供应链中。完整报告请登陆www.grantthorntonibos.com/files/ibr%202008%20-%20corporate%20social%20responsibility%20report%20final%20(150%20dpi)%20web%20enabled.pdf

重要的BSR新闻

来自Street的观点：水

由缺乏和质量问题引起的水价上升将对几乎所有的社会商业活动产生影响，投资者和金融家在他们做投资决定时将越来越考虑水的标准。评价风险等级和确定与水相关的机会是三项金融和可持续系列考虑原则中的第二部分，“来自Street的观点”。

This Weeks Top Headlines

U.S. Lawmakers to Tackle Climate Change

The U.S. Senate kicked off a debate Monday on groundbreaking climate-change legislation that would cap carbon emissions and allow industries to buy and sell credits. The measure would reduce U.S. greenhouse gases by about 66 percent by 2050.

High Gas Prices Push U.S. Demand for Fuel Efficiency

Reflecting a U.S. consumer shift away from gas-guzzling vehicles to smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles, General Motor's Corp. announced plans last week to shut down four plants in the United States, Canada and Mexico that specialize in sports-utility vehicles and pick-up trucks. GM's announcement came as the U.S. national average gas price hit US$4 a gallon.

Dow and Boeing Fined for Nuclear Plant Contamination

A Denver, Colo. court has fined The Dow Chemical Co. and The Boeing Co. a total of US$926 million for property damages caused by plutonium contamination from the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. In the class-action lawsuit launched 18 years ago and concluded in February 2006, approximately 12,000 plaintiffs accused Dow and Rockwell International Corp., which Boeing bought parts of in 1996.

Brazilian Bank Wins International Sustainability Award

Banco Real S/A of Brazil is the first emerging market bank to win the Financial Times Sustainable Banking awards in London. The firm leads sustainable banking in South America by putting social and environmental issues at the center of its business activities and involving its 32,000 staff members in its strategy.

U.S. Sets Standards for Chinese Exports

During a trip to meet with Chinese officials about last year's recalls of several Chinese products that were exported to the United States, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt announced that the U.S. will ban products from Chinese companies that do not meet U.S. product-quality certification standards.

Wal-Mart Sets New Toy Safety Standards

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has ordered its suppliers to limit eight heavy metals and plastic-softening chemicals used in children's products, setting a precedent for the toy industry and superseding federal legislation. The mandates are prompting toy makers to find new materials, closely monitor overseas factories and verify their products?metal and chemical content through more frequent independent lab testing.

Corporate-NGO Project Aims to Improve Global Labor Compliance

Project Kaleidoscope, a program started in 2002 to encourage manufacturers to comply with labor standards, released a final report covering a pilot program at 10 Chinese factories supplying goods for the Walt Disney Company and McDonald's Corp.

Report Corner

CSR Essential for Privately Held Businesses

Grant Thorntons “International Business Report 2008” emphasizes that ethical practices are fundamental to the success of privately owned businesses. According to the report, the main factors driving corporate responsibility at private firms are recruitment and retention of quality staff and cost management, reflecting the recognition that cost control is good for business and the environment. It also shows that CSR demands from large corporations are filtering down their supply chains.

Featured BSR News

Word from the Street: Water

An increase in the price of water driven by scarcity and quality problems will affect almost all of societys commercial activities, and investors and financiers are increasingly including water criteria in their investment decisions. Evaluate your level of risk and identify water-related opportunities in the second of our three-part finance and sustainability series, "Word from the Street."