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Ensure environmental sustainability
Through our Green Brewer and Green Commerce
initiatives we are contributing to the seventh
goal: ensure environmental sustainability. This goal
focuses on environmental protection, the provision
of basic sanitation and access to water. Our
breweries continue to set ambitious energy and
water reduction targets and the concept of the
carbon neutral brewery continues to be developed.
Our policy is to discharge wastewater after it has
been treated. We have a programme in place to
equip the breweries in Africa with a wastewater
purification installation when none is yet present.
The brewery waste is minimised by reuse of
brewery by-products. We are also improving
our water stewardship following the signing of
the CEO UN Water Mandate in 2009. On page 20
you can read about two water footprint studies
we conducted in Slovakia and Egypt.
PARTICIPANT
Develop a global partnership
for development
The last Millennium Development Goal refers
to global partnerships. These encourage public
and private sector parties to share knowledge
and technology in order to help developing
countries progress.
Locally, our operating companies partner
with NGOs, charities, industry initiatives and
government projects. In the Democratic Republic
of Congo, for example, we partner with GTZ, which
specialises in technical cooperation for sustainable
development. HAF partners with several
organisations in sub-Saharan Africa.
On a global level, Heineken is on the private sector
constituency of the Coordinating Board for The
Global Fund against AIDS, TB and Malaria. We are
also a member of the Stop TB Partnership, a World
Health Organisation initiative. Our Global Health
Affairs department also has a partnership with
Pharm Access, a Dutch not-for-profit organisation
supporting quality basic healthcare including HIV/
AIDS treatment and care in Africa. Through our
Industry Partnership with the World Economic
Forum we have an interest in the New Vision for
Agriculture, the Future Water Needs project and
the Working towards Wellness group.
See also our section in this report on 'Healthcare'
pages 32 - 35.
