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CoRE SUSTAINABILITY
CHARTER
Objective of the Charter
To express support publicly for these
principles and to provide a basis for
pursuing environmental improvements at the
corporate level.
Principles
Corporate Priority:
To recognize environmental management as
among the highest corporate priorities and
as a key determinant to sustainable
development; to establish policies, programs
and practices for conducting operations in
an environmentally sound manner.
Process of
Improvement:
To continue to improve corporate policies,
programs and environmental performance,
taking into account technical development,
scientific understanding, consumer needs and
community expectations, with legal
regulations as a starting point.
Integrated Management:
To integrate these policies, programs and
practices into each business as an essential
element of management in all its functions.
Employee Education:
To educate, train and motivate employees to
conduct their activities in an
environmentally responsible manner.
Prior Assessment:
To assess environmental impacts before
starting a new activity or project and
before decommissioning a facility or leaving
a site.
Products and Services:
To develop and provide products or services,
those have no undue environmental impacts
and are safe in their intended use, that are
efficient in their consumption of energy and
natural resources, and that can be recycled,
reused, or disposed of safety.
Customer Advice:
To advise, and where relevant educate,
customers, distributors and the public in
the safe use, transportation, storage and
disposal of products provided; and to apply
similar considerations to the provision of
services.
Facilities and
Operations:
To develop, design and operate facilities
and conduct activities taking into
consideration the efficient use of energy
and materials, the sustainable use of
renewable resources, the minimization of
adverse environmental impact and waste
generation, and the safe and responsible
disposal of residual wastes.
Research:
To conduct or support research on the
environmental impacts of raw materials,
products, processes, emissions and wastes
associated with the enterprise and on the
means of minimizing such adverse impacts.
Precautionary
Approach:
To modify the manufacture, marketing or use
of products or services or the conduct of
activities, consistent with scientific and
technical understanding, to prevent serious
or irreversible environmental degradation.
Contractors and
Suppliers:
To promote the adoption of these principles
by contractors acting on behalf of the
enterprise, encouraging and, where
appropriate, requiring improvements in their
practices to make them consistent with those
of the enterprise, and to encourage the
wider adoption of these principles by
suppliers.
Emergency
Preparedness:
To develop and maintain, where significant
hazards exist, emergency preparedness plans
in conjunction with the emergency services,
relevant authorities and the local
community, recognizing potential
trans-boundary impacts. |
