中欧社会论坛 - China Europa Forum

Date: 21 mars 2008

In 2007, a broad and thorough consultation was conducted in France on the Environment. It is known as the Grenelle de l’Environnement. The aim of the consultation was to build on citizens and civil society expectations for drafting a Law setting a framework for, and regulating, sustainable development.

Engagements of the Grenelle de l’Environnement, which build on the consultation, were published in October 2007. They include CSR. Around thirty operational committees were set up. The objective assigned to these committees was to operationalise the Law. The 25th Operational Committee (OC) was dedicated to CSR.

The 25th OC released this report with proposals for operationalising the CSR-related engagements of the Grenelle de l’Environnement as listed hereafter:

Proposals with legal or regulatory provisions, for operationalising the following engagements:

• Better enforcement of the 2001 Law NRE (law making CSR reporting mandatory for listed companies);

• Promote CSR and discuss the social responsibility of holdings at the European level;

• Company committees (that include employees) should be involved in company’s sustainable development management; there should be a process for environmental alert within the company;

• Broaden the scope of companies required by the law NRE to disclose on CSR;

• Promote Socially Responsible Investment.

Proposals for partnership-style and contractual provisions, for operationalising the following engagements:

• Set up Responsible Company Labels for SMEs;

• The “Bilan Carbone” – assessment of carbon emissions and action plan – should be conducted for all organisations (private and public) with more than 50 employees;

• Give a stronger focus on environmental aspects in vocational training;

• Specify precisely ESG information and indicators to be included in annual reports;

• Encourage investment in eco-enterprises;

• Promote the hiring of an environment manager at the level of a group of enterprises (economic/industrial activity zone);

• Establish dialogue with employees, affected communities and other stakeholders through committees such as citizen advisory panel;

• Create a web portal on CSR;

• Release information campaigns for promoting SRI.

This document in different languages

• English: comop_rse_rapport_final_19_mar_081.pdf (620 KiB)
• French: comop_rse_rapport_final_19_mar_08.pdf (620 KiB)

Page translations:

• Rapport préparé pour le Grenelle de l’Environnement