Annual Report - Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations

Caisse des Dépôts Group
Employees
Significant progress in corporate communications has
been made at CDC IXIS, including the in-house
newsletter and intranet site that received awards from
the UJJEF professional association. More generally,
within the financial institution, a corporate portal
providing access to sites run by unions has been set up.
A dedicated Intranet site, an off-site seminar for
managers, and training for new recruits have helped
to raise awareness of the sustainable development
principle. Employees now have access to a database
of good management practices and receive the
electronic version of a newsletter dealing with social
responsibility issues.
SCIC Patrimoine has made a special effort to strengthen
the training of building superintendents on security issues.
Society
CDC Group has formed numerous partnerships
in order to foster sustainable development.
These include efforts undertaken with:
- CSR Europe, to conduct surveys of socially
responsible investments;
- comité 21 and AMF, to publish a guide to local and
regional sustainable development;
- ORSE and EPE, to take part in reflections on social
ratings and to publish a guide to organizations
providing such ratings;
- “4 D”, to help with the publication of Local Agenda
21 Guideposts;
- the French Quality Movement, to manage the
publication of the Quality Management Guide
devoted to sustainable development;
- GRI, in order to reflect on appropriate social indicators.
2001 also saw the completion of the five-year project
to clarify the role played by Caisse des Dépôts in the
despoilment of Jewish assets under the Vichy regime
and to pay reparations in accordance with the
measures decided by the government.
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Caisse des Dépôts Group 2001
Natural environment
Steps were taken to include environmental precautions
in calls for tenders. ISO 14000 certification procedures
were initiated for the Caisse des Dépôts establishment
in Bordeaux and for the public transportation system
managed by Transdev in Bayonne.
A socially responsible range
of products and services
Encouraging socially responsible
investment
Novethic, a new subsidiary, is the leading resource
center for social responsibility and ethical investment.
It provides an Internet-based source of information on
the business practices of major French corporations,
as well as on ethical investment products available on
the Paris financial markets.