Keeps our stakeholders up-to-date on our Corporate Responsibility (CR) activities.
Our internal communication channels regularly inform employees about activities and projects within the sphere of Corporate Responsibility. We diligently provide regular updates on progress across our five areas of activity. After all, our success is often rooted in the ideas and hard work of exceptionally dedicated people within the Group.
Our annual Corporate Responsibility Report is aimed at all of our stakeholders, including Linde employees. It is also our most important medium for communicating with the general public, including our customers, business partners, suppliers, investors and shareholders. The report contains a wealth of information including facts and figures on Corporate Responsibility. This information allows us to track the success of our Corporate Responsibility activities.
Active membership of various national and international organisations helps us to maintain close dialogue with various stakeholder groups representing different interests across society.
We attach great importance in opening dialogue with our stakeholders. This gives us insights into how they rate our success in fulfilling our social responsibility and environmental sustainability goals. Which is why, in 2006, we completed an in-depth stakeholder survey.
The participants came from the following areas:
- Business (business partners and other companies) (40.6 %)
- Capital markets (analysts and investors) (15.5 %)
- Science and research (13.4 %)
- Non-government organisations (13.4 %)
- Lobbyists (trade associations and other organisations) (5.9 %)
- Politics (governmental organisations, politicians) (5.3 %)
- Other stakeholders not assigned to a specific group (5.9 %)
The following is brief overview of the resulting recommendations:
- Establish more transparency
- Increased public commitment to key community issues such as climate change
- Align certain aspects, such as the Code of Ethics, more strongly with international standards
- Ensure targeted and sustainable product development
- Report on dilemmas and challenges
- Ensure that voluntary commitment to society is closely tied to Linde’s core business values
Overall, Linde has a good chance of achieving higher ratings in SRI indexes and funds.
The results are displayed and evaluated in more detail in the Linde Corporate Responsibility Report 2007 on page 015 and pages 028 to 031.
