In 2015 the companies of the Enel Group ranked 5th among Fortune Magazine’s Top 50 companies that can change the world - a tremendous responsibility for our shareholders, employees, customers and the generations to come.
That same year, the United Nations (UN) approved the new Sustainable Development Objectives (ODS) to which 193 world leaders committed. This was an invitation for companies to address the challenges of sustainable development in order to meet 3 major challenges at the global level: eradicating extreme poverty, eliminating inequality and injustice, and solving climate change.
In this sense and facing these three situations mentioned above, the companies of the Enel group in Colombia committed themselves by signing the Global pact with the United Nations. This initiative promotes corporate citizenship through the direct integration of business activity at the time of facing the greatest social and environmental challenges arising from the growing globalization. The ten principles of the Global Compact are based on standards and conventions of international recognition in respect of four critical areas: human rights, labour standards, the environment and corruption. Consult our human rights policy.
Part of our commitment is to help meet 4 goals of the 17 enshrined by the UN Global compact:
- Provide access to energy.
- Support educational projects.
- Proposing policies of employment and inclusive economic growth, sustainable and lasting.
- Combating climate change
An example of this is reflected in the goal set by the Enel Group on climate change: Becoming a carbon-neutral company by 2050 with zero greenhouse gases during operations.
From this commitment, local Enel group companies in Colombia have begun enjoying the benefits of global responsibility that our companies have shouldered:
- Firstly, the electric taxi pilot project implemented in the city of Bogota, and the installation of the fifth recharging station, producing a 45-unit network in the capital.
- Secondly, a focus on work lines such as education and socioeconomic development to benefit over 1 million people (more than 200,000 direct beneficiaries and 800,000 indirect), improving their quality of life and that of their families. An example was the 'Training for Work' project, which took place in the municipalities of Nemocón, Cogua and Zipaquirá in the department of Cundinamarca, with 200 young people benefitting. The aims of the initiative were initially framed around closing gaps and facilitating the transition from secondary education to tertiary education and on to the working world. Additional goals lie in developing life skills and incorporating principles of sustainable development within young people in grades 8 to 11.
And finally, integrating organizational structure with Health, Safety and Environmental management coupled with on-the-job quality inside companies, as well as the commitment to the caring for our employees and contractors in the global "zero accidents" initiative, and beyond the corporate walls to the conservation of the flora and fauna existing in our surrounding communities.
We are convinced that as a group we have the capacity and the responsibility to make our actions a legacy for future generations.
Learn about all of our projects and initiatives with which we contribute to meet each of these four objectives of the UN Global compact:
