"We can only grow as long as the environment sustains us."
Yearly Report of the Czech Coal Group: Business Activities and Sustainable Development in 2009 (HTML)
The Group publishes, on a regular basis, yearly reports on its activities and sustainable development. The reports are based on the internationally recognised Global Reporting Initiative methodology and offer a detailed description of the Group’s business and sustainable development (see Annual Monitoring), and provide feedback to the Czech Coal Group and its stakeholders in terms of the data being produced. We believe that only where data is made public are stakeholders able to identify preferences that can be shared across all stakeholder groups. These result in creative cooperation.
We perceive sustainable development as a harmonisation of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of everyday life and business. We therefore make our economic development conditional on investment in the environmental and social areas.
Sustainable development combines three dimensions of the society’s life, economic, social and environmental, and addresses the conditions of how these three dimensions co-exist and how they are interconnected. Technology is one such interconnecting feature. The world of technology, as well as the world of nature, is where we all have been living since our childhood. If we approach these two realms with due respect and with a view to meeting people’s needs on a long-term basis, there can never be any antagonism between technology and nature.
Sustainable development is “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” This is how the UN World Commission on Environment and Development defined sustainable development as early as 1987. In compliance with this notion, the Czech Coal Group’s interest in the brown coal mining area is not focused on “rapidly extracting the coal reserves” – this would in fact be impossible, both technically and economically. The Group’s intention is to make the coal reserves available to the generations of our children who themselves will decide how to use this mineral wealth in this century, and perhaps also in the next.
Czech Coal Group
E-mail: ccg@czechcoal.cz
Czech Coal a.s.
Evropská 2690/17, 160 00 Prague 6
Tel.: +420 222 183 111
E-mail: info@czechcoal.cz
Residence:
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