WWF-UK: Corporate partner receives sustainability award
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Corporate partner receives sustainability award
Tuesday 13 May 2008
Marks & Spencer has received a prestigious international award – the World Environment Center's Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development – for its WWF-endorsed sustainability initiative, called Plan A.
Plan A is a 100-point, five-year scheme that aims to make the company carbon neutral (contribute zero CO2 emissions to the atmosphere), send no waste to landfill, set new standards in ethical trading and help employees and customers live a healthier lifestyle.
WWF-UK is supporting Plan A by helping Marks & Spencer increase the sourcing of sustainable raw materials from its agricultural supply chain. The company is helping to fund WWF conservation projects in Borneo and the north-east Atlantic.
David Nussbaum, chief executive of WWF-UK, was invited to present the award in recognition of this collaboration. He said: "Marks & Spencer's Plan A leads the field in its engagement of sustainability issues with pioneering breadth and depth. The company steps outside of the traditional narrow focus of retailers and instead looks at the full range of impacts in production and supply."
The World Environment Center is a non-profit organisation that encourages companies to act sustainably.
"Marks & Spencer's Plan A leads the field in its engagement of sustainability issues with pioneering breadth and depth."
David Nussbaum, Chief Executive, WWF-UK
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- Read more about WWF-UK's partnership with M&S
- Read more about the launch of Plan A
- Visit our One Planet Business site
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