Vivendi

Amata Nowik, Director, Budget and Reports, Communications and Sustainable Development Department, Vivendi
(ASDR 2010)

EMAS: A successful involvement of headquarters employees

« As EMAS correspondent at Vivendi’s corporate headquarters, and being in charge of the budget at the Communication and Sustainable Development Department, I work to raise providers’ awareness of our environmental commitments and reconcile budgetary and environmental constraints for our publishing and events activities. Printing is done by printers who use vegetable-based inks (Imprim’vert) and paper from sustainably managed forests. Publications are stored in a certified facility and their distribution is handled by a provider who controls CO2 emissions. We also contribute to recycling paper through our membership in Ecofolio.
When organizing events, we give priority to certified venues, use of recycled and recyclable materials for building exhibits, and caterers who are involved in a sustainable development process (e.g. signatories of the United Nations Global Compact). Following a training course on environmentally responsible event design, we will be able to systematically compensate for the carbon footprint of the events organized by Vivendi.»