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Employee awareness-raising on sustainable development

Many initiatives are created at Air Liquide to raise employee awareness on sustainable development issues and encourage them to promote them in their daily activities. “Earth Day”, “Water Day” and the “Better and Cleaner” Olympiads between Research Centers are a few examples.

The “Better and Cleaner” challenge between Air Liquide’s research centers

The “Better and Cleaner” Olympiads, focused on sustainable development and launched at the end of 2009 between all of Air Liquide’s Research Centers, had strong participation throughout 2010.

The purpose of this challenge is to raise awareness at the Research Centers on environmental questions by bringing them together around a common project whose goal is to reduce the consumption of utilities and greenhouse gas emissions. This competition should make it possible to decrease the carbon footprint of each unit, while finding the best environmental practices developed by researchers worldwide.

The evaluation of each center’s annual environmental performances is based on the monitoring of three key indicators for which standards of excellence were defined: paper consumption, water consumption and the frequency of air travel for business.

The best global performance and the greatest improvement compared to the previous year are both rewarded. Three outstanding local initiatives, because of their role in lowering environmental impact, in sustainable development, or their social benefits, are also selected.