Brochure on sustainability - Klasmann Deilmann

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“Sustainability is based on a well-defined premise: in order to
safeguard opportunities for development, both now and for future
generations, we need to think of economic efficiency, social
responsibility and the protection of natural resources as inter-linked.
What we do or don’t do today must not compromise our children’s
and grandchildren’s chances of living in prosperity and in an intact
environment. I am, therefore, firmly convinced that we should see
sustainability as integral to wholeheartedly embracing justice, and
as an important prerequisite for the future viability of our society.”
Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel,
patron of the 2011 German Sustainability Conference,
source: www.nachhaltigkeitstag.de
A word from the
Management Board
With its ambitions towards sustainability, society is presenting us with
one of the biggest challenges of the present day. A company will no
longer be judged solely by profits and job security. Rather, it will
increasingly be viewed in terms of its societal role, assessed by the
extent to which it is committed to addressing the ecological and social
aspects of its own actions, keeping future generations in mind.
Our first in-house sustainability audit yielded pleasing results: as an
organisation, Klasmann-Deilmann acts more sustainably than we
ourselves had expected. For example, many of our activities that are
in the spirit of corporate social responsibility have been part of our
day-to-day business for many years – whereas, in certain other areas,
we are just starting out on the journey.
Our corporate strategy has already been geared towards principles of
sustainability for many years. Important developments here included
the composting of residual green waste which began over 20 years
ago, certification to the ISO 9001 standard 10 years ago, and the
launch of the ISO 14001 environmental management system in 2008.
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