The Sika Experience

Sika is member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a CEO-led, global association of some 200 companies dealing exclusively with business and sustainable development. The Council provides a platform for companies to explore sustainable development, share knowledge, experiences and best practices, and to advocate business positions on these issues in a variety of forums, working with governments, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations.

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In 2009 Sika AG has been added to the UN Global Compact register of participants and is now an active part of the worldwide corporate responsibility initiative. Management and employees are committed to making the Global Compact and its principles part of the strategy, culture and day-to-day operations of our company, and to engaging in collaborative projects which advance the broader development goals of the United Nations, particularly the Millennium Development Goals. Sika embraces, supports and enacts a set of core values in the areas of human rights, labour standards, the environment and anti-corruption.

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Sika adheres to the Responsible Care® program. This program is the chemical industry’s global voluntary initiative under which companies, through their national associations, work together to continuously improve their health, safety and environmental performance, and to communicate with stakeholders about their products and processes.

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The Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is a non-profit organization committed to a prosperous and sustainable future for the nation through cost-efficient and energy-saving green buildings.

USGBC is the driving force of an industry that is projected to contribute $554 billion to the U.S. gross domestic product from 2009-2013. USGBC leads an unlikely diverse constituency of builders and environmentalists, corporations and nonprofit organizations, elected officials and concerned citizens, as well as teachers and students.

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Sika is supporting the Global Nature Fund (GNF), headquartered in Radolfzell, Germany. Within the organization Sika focuses on projects managed by “Living Lakes”, an international network and partnership whose mission is to enhance the protection, restoration and rehabilitation of lakes, wetlands, other freshwater bodies of the world and their catchment areas.

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To support our ambitions towards sustainable production Sika has a worldwide network with technical universities and organizations and joint research projects with many of them. Sika regards the close collaboration between the industry and technical universities as key-element for progress. For the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Sika even promotes a professorship for sustainable Construction.

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ACTIS (Activating Talent in Sustainability) is non-profit organization with the aim to continue and expand the successful Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) course concept. Students from all over the world are invited to take part and bring in their ideas. Sika has been working together with Actis for several years.

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As a company with a strong innovative tradition, Sika not only constantly develops creative solutions used in the construction and maintenance of infrastructure, we also engage in sharing this tradition across company lines with our partners in trade and industry and other stakeholders. It is in this respect that we engage in the Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative (SBCI) of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The initiative brings together stakeholders from all phases of buildings’ lifespans. Through SBCI, members take an active role in shaping the market of sustainable buildings and construction.

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Sika measures and discloses greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies through the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), in order to set reduction targets and make performance improvements. This data is made available by the CDP for use by a wide audience including institutional investors, corporations, policymakers and their advisors, public sector organizations, government bodies, academics and the public. The Carbon Disclosure Project is an independent not-for-profit organization holding the largest database of primary corporate climate change information in the world.

Thousands of organizations from across the world’s major economies measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, water use and climate change strategies through CDP. We put this information at the heart of financial and policy decision-making.

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Transparency International is a global civil society organisation fighting against corruption. Sika supports within Transparency International the National Integrity System (NIS).

The NIS combats corruption to support sustainable development, rule of law and human rights. The project will identify (and build support for tackling) anti-corruption issues of national concern, which the government should take action on. Due to its multi-level and evidence-based approach, the project is able to mitigate primary corruption risks as one of the most important forms of financial and economic crime across Europe in a holistic, systematic and sustainable manner.

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