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CGNU terminology |
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| Business |
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A business or group of businesses identified by
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| CSR steering group |
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A group of Directors charged with overseeing progress
on the Group’s CSR programme |
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| CSR review group |
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Representatives from the Group’s
head office, businesses in the UK and abroad, auditors and ngos, who
review progress over the past year, plans for the coming year and
help develop CGNU’s understanding and practice of CSR |
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| Environmental action
group |
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A group of employees from all UK
businesses responsible for identifying and pursuing specific initiatives
over the coming year |
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| Nominated Manager |
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A manager selected in a business
to facilitate and report on local implementation of the CSR policy
and programme |
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| CSR management system |
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A system that translates the CSR
policy statement into implementation of actions towards achieving
the policy objectives and progress review. The results are either
renewed or fresh actions agreed to achieve the objectives |
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| Teamroom |
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A database information system used
by over 130 CSR contacts responsible for implementing the programme
throughout the Company |
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| Direct impacts |
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Impacts that the Company has through
the use of property, energy and water, travel and transport, waste
and paper use |
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| Indirect impacts |
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Impacts that the Company has via
its core business such as claims, underwriting, fund management and
purchasing through its customers and business partners |
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External terminology |
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| Global Compact |
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An initiative of the United Nations Secretary-General,
Kofi Annan, which calls on companies to embrace nine universal principles
in the areas of environment, human rights and labour standards |
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| Socially Responsible
Investment (SRI) |
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A process that takes social, environmental and ethical
criteria into account when investing in companies |
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| Business in the
Environment Index |
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The annual Index of Corporate Environmental Engagement
benchmarks FTSE350 companies against their peers and whole industries
against each other, on the basis of their environmental management
and performance in key impact areas |
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| Business in the
Community Index |
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A new index which is being developed by Business in
the Community which will seek to assess corporate performance in the
field of CSR |
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| BREEAM |
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Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment
Method – an industry measure of energy and environmental performance
of commercial buildings |
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| Liquefied Petroleum
Gas (LPG) |
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A type of vehicle fuel which is lower in CO2
emissions than petrol or diesel |
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| Carbon Dioxide (CO2) |
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The most prevalent greenhouse gas. CGNU measures the
environmental impact of the energy we use in our buildings and travel
by equating energy usage to the amount of tonnes of carbon of carbon
dioxide emitted |
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