Message from our CEO
We aim to achieve a balance in ecological, social and economic values and we are proud of the progress Mondi has made towards this objective.
Since our demerger in 2007, we have worked to take the best of our former parent's sustainability culture and use it to shape and inform our own across a range of key focus areas including forestry, the environment, safety (for employees, contractors, communities and consumers of our products) and social responsibility.
In doing so, we have begun to create a sustainability ethos that is individually Mondi's, shaped to reflect the nature of our operations in some of the world's most environmentally and socially sensitive regions.
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Our continuing strong financial performance enables us to provide significant socio-economic benefits to many stakeholders and to implement initiatives and investments aimed at further improving our sustainability performance.
At the heart of this is the development of our own Sustainable Development Management System (SDMS), which we completed during 2007. This is a comprehensive sustainability management system that will provide us with the mechanism to successfully deliver on our SD commitments. It is applicable to all our sites, operations and activities throughout the world. |
Throughout the business we continue to address a wide range of key sustainability challenges:
- Sustainable forestry: to ensure that our forestry practices enable us to provide the future resources our business needs in a sustainable manner.
- Reducing environmental impact: to help meet the world's paper and packaging needs and simulataneously reduce the environmental footprint of our products, especially mitigating the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on the climate.
- Safety and health stewardship: to achieve our vision of zero-harm workplaces, ensuring that all people working for Mondi understand and fully comply with our safety standards. Our occupational and community health challenge is to ensure our health programmes recognise and influence the health factors which impact our employees, contractors, their families and our communities.
- Long-term social, community and stakeholder relationships: to understand social and community issues and expand our role as corporate citizens, so that the communities in which we operate value our citizenship.
Many of the issues facing us are long-term challenges which require long-term solutions. Our commitment to seek ever more sustainable ways of working across the Group will therefore remain a fundamental reality of our business for many years to come.
David Hathorn, CEO
Last change: 27/03/2008