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

Thank you!

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