Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
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Company Background Conestoga-Rovers & Associates (CRA) is an independent environmental consulting firm providing specialist services in Property and Land, Environmental Management and Industrial Operations Support. CRA Europe, headquartered in Nottingham, delivers services to clients in the UK and Europe. Part of the CRA Family of Companies, the European operations can draw upon the expertise of 3,000 staff in all relevant environmental science, engineering, construction, and IT disciplines.
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability CRA provides comprehensive support to our clients to enable them to address the sustainability agenda by implementing far-reaching corporate responsibility (CR) initiatives, developed to tackle the environmental, health and safety and social impacts resulting from an organisation’s activities. These projects can range from initiatives to address key sustainability issues or can embrace the organisation’s ethos and approach to all its business activities and products. CRA encourages its clients to recognise the brand value and business performance benefits of adopting sustainable strategies and practices, thereby meeting business and societal objectives.
CRA’s CR and sustainability services include: • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Stakeholder evaluation and communications Sector and organisational benchmarking Gap analysis Strategy and policy development Sustainable action planning ISO 14001 and EMAS environmental management systems Health and safety Sustainability appraisal/SEA Integrated systems Environmental metrics Corporate responsibility/sustainability reporting to GRI or other standards SA8000, AA1000, OHSAS18001 audits and systems CR training and workshops Supply chain CR programmes
CRA is dedicated to working closely with our clients to develop and implement responsive and cost-effective solutions.
CR and Corporate Governance
CRA’s Integrated CR and Management Services
The growing pressures on businesses to make financial provision for environmental and social risks are forcing companies to focus their efforts on ensuring that their businesses are financially sustainable. In the US, efforts are focused largely through the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX); in the UK, efforts are focused through the EU Accounting Directive and UK Companies Act. CRA recognises the link between corporate responsibility and corporate governance and can support companies in developing programmes under either or both of these banners. Ultimately, both CR and corporate governance programmes are based on the analysis and management of similar environmental and related issues, which can be delivered by our CR and environmental consultants.
CRA offers a range of services based on a continuous improvement model that integrates strategy development, management and implementation. Strategic Sustainability Services: • CR strategy development and testing • Corporate governance and corporate risk management • Continuity planning Sustainability Management Services, to implement all aspects of CR and governance strategy: • Management systems, including certification support • Sustainable environmental, social and welfare programmes • Corporate reporting • Risk assessment • Competence building • Benchmarking/environmental performance measurement Sustainable Assessment, Engineering and Design Services, including a comprehensive range of site, project-based and product-related services, to meet strategic objectives and support sustainability management programme initiatives: • Site CR and EMS support • Sustainable action plans • Electronic data gathering • Energy, water and resource efficiency studies • Site, project, service or product compliance assessment • Travel plans • Supply chain evaluation • Community relations • Health and safety assessment
CRA believes that the successful resolution of environmental and social issues, while operating a profitable business, is a key management challenge in today’s business world. This is the basis of any successful strategy for corporate responsibility and corporate governance. Forward-thinking organisations focus their efforts on developing programmes to ensure that their businesses are environmentally, socially and financially sustainable.
How can cra help? CRA Europe, based in Nottingham, delivers services to clients in the UK and Europe. Part of the CRA Family of Companies, the European operations can draw upon the expertise of 3,000 staff in all relevant environmental science, engineering, construction, and IT disciplines. CRA Europe has been delivering high quality environmental consultancy services since 1995.
company Background Conestoga-Rovers & Associates (CRA) is an independent environmental consulting firm providing specialist services in Property and Land, Environmental Management and Industrial Operations Support. Since our inception in 1976, we have worked for some of the world’s largest multinationals on projects including global environmental management systems implementation, facility permitting, contaminated land remediation, corporate sustainability report verification and carbon accounting. > environmental management services EMS, integrated management systems, corporate responsibility, carbon/GHG accounting, compliance auditing, environmental metrics, strategy development, training and EHS auditing
> industrial > Property and operations support land services Environmental Permit Property transaction management, BAT, EIA, air advice, site investigations, emissions, water emissions, risk assessment, waste and resource remediation, geotechnical efficiency, noise, odour investigations, and and energy assessments, due diligence services health and safety services including ASTM standard including COMAH and Phase 1 assessments risk assessment
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