Orange shows significant progress through its 2011 CSR Report - 31 August, 2012.
Orange’s 2011 Corporate Social Responsibility
report, details the organisation’s our progress
4 CSR commitments: (1)
recognising and supporting our employees, (2) ensuring transparency, (3) quality, (4) security and safety for our
customers, sharing the benefits of the digital world accessible with the
greatest possible number of people, and
finally, finding innovative solutions for a greener world. In particular,
Orange has made siginificant progress in the following:
The clarification of Orange’s strategy on their
contribution to the economic and social development of emerging countries,
through “Orange for development”, an initiative launched in 2011 to encourage,
the creation of favourable
socio-economic environments in the countries where we operate.
The mobilisation of Orange’s European entities for
the protection of children on the internet: Orange is a member of the “CEO
coalition² to make the internet a safer place for children”, an initiative
launched in December 2011 by Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European
Commission and the European Commissioner in charge of the digital society, with
a view to encouraging action at the European level for the protection of
children on the internet. Orange were also involved as a founding member of the
ICT Coalition, along with 25 other companies from the information and
communication technologies industry, in developing the guiding principles to
enhance on line safety for children and teenagers.
The reinforcement of our governance in terms of
energy consumption: Orange is committed to reducing their CO2 emissions by 20 %
and their energy consumption by 15 % between 2006 and 2020, which represents a
challenge given the continuing increase in data traffic. In 2011, 3 new Group
departments (networks department to control energy consumption in its technical
infrastructures, real estate department and sustainable mobility department)
have been created to strengthen the governance of their approach to
environmental issues
The Orange Group’s approach to CSR audited by one
of their auditors obtained the highest assurance, known as “reasonable”
assurance, for its compliance with the
AA1000 Standard and for 140 achievements featuring in the road maps, as well as
10 performance indicators presented in the report. The A+ rating, certifying that all the
indicators listed in the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) were completed is
maintained.
An acknowledgment that follows upon the top-rating
of our 2010 Corporate Social Responsibility Report by the French Centre for
Information on Companies (CFIE) for the exhaustiveness and accuracy of the
data– with an overall score of 79.9 out of 100.
Bolstered by the progress made in 2011, Orange
plans to intensify our efforts to involve our approach to CSR even more fully
in the value creation for the Group. For this purpose, Orange is going to
further integrate CSR performance indicators in the various Orange information
and decision-making systems and develop their approach to the protection of
privacy, a complex challenge for which standards and the regulatory framework
vary considerably from one country to the next.
Source: www.csreurope.org
31 August, 2012.