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Environmental compact
To integrate environmental concerns in its management, Caja Madrid has drawn up a set of environmental policies with the dual aim of minimising the impact associated to its work centres and factoring environmental considerations in its financial transactions.
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Environmental management in work centres
Informed by international standard ISO 14001:2004 and the EFQM system (European Foundation for Quality Management).
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Awareness, training and information programmes
For employees, so environmental criteria can be cascaded through the organisation.
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The environment and financial business
Caja Madrid uses the environmental impact of business projects as an input to its lending and investment decisions. This means, firstly, the strict condition that company clients abide by current legislation and identify possible environmental risks and, secondly, the financing of projects that promote the use of renewable energies. In parallel, it strives to develop products and services that contribute to conserving the natural environment.
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Protecting our natural heritage
Working to mobilise society around environmental issues by financing and publicising environmental conservation and improvement schemes, and supporting the environmental initiatives of government authorities and/or businesses through sponsorship, research, publications, workshops and other action lines coordinated by Obra Social Caja Madrid.
Environmental policy
This engagement with environmental protection is encapsulated in the Group's environmental policy. This statement was approved by senior management and frames our continuous improvement efforts in the environmental sphere. It is structured around the following principles:
- Ongoing improvement and prevention of pollution, investing all necessary resources to this end.
- Environmental criteria embedded in all projects, and an internal management system designed to minimise the impacts of our work centres and installations.
- Dissemination and promotion of good environmental practices across the length of the supply chain.
- Collaboration with environmental conservation and improvement schemes, and support to environmental initiatives in the form of grants, sponsorship, research, publications, workshops and other forms of assistance.
- Compliance with prevailing legislation and with the principles of the agreements to which the organisation is a signatory.
- Staff training and awareness on environmental issues.