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Corporate environmental and social responsibility (CESR) is essential to sustainable development and good business. This belief is at the core of the World Bank’s mission and is therefore part of our lending practices as well as our programs and initiatives in our offices and communities. The World Bank’s focus on corporate environmental and social responsibility includes the impact of our physical facilities, staff, and daily operations on the environment and on the local communities in which we work and live.
This second sustainability review reiterates our continuing efforts to measure and communicate our organization’s performance during the two year period since our first review. Since publication of Focus on Sustainability 2004, we have continued the programs described there and have started new initiatives to measure and manage our social and environmental impacts in our offices and with our staff. In this 2005-2006 review, we focus largely on describing our newest initiatives.
This section of the review describes our environmental and social footprint. In chapter 5, you will learn about our progress in measuring our environmental impact from our staff and buildings and our everyday activities. You will learn about how we have made a commitment to reduce our impact through energy management and smart consuming. You will also see how we have started incorporating environmental principles into our buildings before they are even built.
The impact of an organization is not only environmental, and so chapter 6 is a description of our social footprint, specifically our staff and community outreach programs.
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