Daimler Annual Report 2011 - Alle jaarverslagen

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The third generation of the smart fortwo electric drive is a milestone on the road to emission-free driving.
A total of 130 participants attended the fourth Daimler Sustainability
Dialogue, which was held in Stuttgart in November
2011. The event focused on workshops dealing with the following
topics: renewable energy sources for electric mobility,
sustainable mobility systems and services, social networks,
generation and talent management, human rights, supplier
management and community relations. The results of the workshops
will be further developed in the following twelve months
in workgroups that include representatives of the stakeholders.
This process will create the starting points for the next
Sustainability Dialogue.
Four times a year, we provide summarized information on our
activities in the field of sustainability in our online “Sustainability
Quarterly” report. You can apply to receive “Sustainability
Quarterly” by e-mail at sustainability@daimler.com or you can
download it from http://www.daimler.com/sustainability.
In May 2011, we conducted a stakeholder dialogue on the topic
of sustainability for the second time in China. The previous
“Daimler Sustainability Forum” had been held in Shanghai in
2010; in 2011, it took place in Beijing. The main themes were
the development of sustainable mobility in China, talent management
in the automotive industry, and business ethics
and compliance.
A Sustainability Dialogue was also conducted for the first time
in the United States in October 2011. The discussions in
Washington, D.C. mainly focused on innovation management
and environmental management, community relations and
sustainability in the supply chain.
Comprehensive reporting on sustainability. We published
our first sustainability report in 1993, thus laying the foundation
for our ongoing reporting on sustainability topics. The year
2011 saw the publication of our seventh Group-wide sustainability
report, 360 DEGREES, which is prepared in accordance
with the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). It
provides a detailed and comprehensive sustainability analysis
of the previous financial year and is supplemented by an interactive
online sustainability report that contains more detailed
and extensive information (http://sustainability.daimler.com).
We will present the new sustainability report at the Annual
Shareholders’ Meeting in early April 2012.
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