Partenaires Européens Pour l’Environnement (EPE )

EPE MEMBERS

PUBLIC AUTHORITIES

• Free Hanseatic City of Bremen Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
• The Brussels Institute for Management of the Environment, or IBGE-BIM, is the environmental and energy watchdog of the Brussels Capital Region. IBGE-BIM acts, from the regulatory standpoint, as a research, planning, advisory and information body, as well as an issuer of permits, and a surveillance and control agency. From the sectoral standpoint, it has authority in the areas of waste, air quality, noise, parks and forests, water, soil and energy.
• OVAM stands for Openbare Afvalstoffenmaatschappij voor het Vlaams Gewest (Public Waste Agency of Flanders) and is responsible for waste management and soil remediation in Flanders. It is a public Flemish Institution.
• VROM is the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment of the Netherlands. Its most important task is to create a pleasant living environment, to continue a spatial planning policy and contribute to a sustainable development.
• ADEME is the French Environment and Energy Management Agency. its mission is encouraging, supervising, coordinating, facilitating and undertaking operations with the aim of protecting the environment and managing energy.
• ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of local governments and associations of national and regional local governments that have made a commitment to sustainable development. In 2008, more than 750 cities, towns, counties, and their associations worldwide comprise ICLEI’s growing membership. ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability

BUSINESS

• Rabobank Group is a full-range financial services provider founded on cooperative principles and is a global leader in sustainability-oriented banking. The Group is comprised of 188 independent local Dutch Rabobanks, a central organisation (Rabobank Nederland), and a large number of specialised international offices.
• Dow is a diversified chemical company that harnesses the power of innovation, science and technology to constantly improve what is essential to human progress.
• Hydro is a Fortune Global 500 supplier of aluminium and aluminium products. Based in Norway, the company employs 22,000 people in more than 30 countries and has activities on all continents. Hydro

Holcim Holcim is one of the world’s leading suppliers of cement and aggregates (crushed stone, sand and gravel) as well as further activities such as ready-mix concrete and asphalt including services.

• Alcoa is the world’s leading producer and manager of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina facilities, and is active in all major aspects of the industry.

The company has 122,000 employees in 44 countries.

NGOs AND NON PROFIT

• Dublin Civic Trust is an educational trust with charitable status. The objective of the Trust is the recognition and protection of the city’s architectural heritage. It aims to create a forum for all citizens which will promote the recognition and development of a better balance between the historic, cultural and social elements of the city.
• The EEB is the umbrella organization for some 140 European environmental organisations in 31 countries.

The EEB aims to promote knowledge and understanding of the current and potential EU environmental and sustainable development policies amongst the general public in the EU, so that this will lead them generally to mobilise for continuous improvement. The EEB has consultative status at the Council of Europe and the United Nations, and has working relations with the Commission of the European Union, the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union, and the OECD.

• Centre for Social Markets is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to making markets work for the triple bottom line - people, planet and profit. Through their offices in India and the United Kingdom, and an international network of partners and associates, CSM promotes responsible entrepreneurship, ethics and accountability worldwide.
• Oree is a non-profit-making organization founded in 1992 to promote partnership between firms and authorities through the development of tools which help small and medium enterprises to integrate environmental management in their daily management, but also through the share of experiences. Oree has more than 90 members (enterprises, local authorities, professionnel, bodies, consultancies…) and 5 partners.
• The CSCP – UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production – was jointly founded in 2005 by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy and UNEP to establish an internationally visible « Think Tank » and « Do Tank » for research, outreach and transfer activities on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP).
• LEAD is an international non-profit organisation with a fast growing network of 1600 leaders in more than 80 countries. Their shared mission is to inspire leadership for a sustainable world by searching worldwide for outstanding people, developing their leadership potential through innovative training programmes and working with them to mobilise others to make a real difference to the future of this planet.
• ENVIROPEA was created in 2002 with the objective from one side of helping to understand the policies and actions at the EU level regarding the environment and sustainable development and from the other side to help to mobilise European funding for public and private projects in this regard.
• ACIDD is the Association communication et information pour le développement durable.

PROFESIONALS

• The ETUC exists to speak with a single voice, on behalf of the common interests of workers, at European level. Founded in 1973, it now represents 81 trade union organisations in 36 European countries, plus 12 industry-based federations. The ETUC’s prime objective is to promote the European Social Model and to work for the development of a united Europe of peace and stability where working people and their families can enjoy full human and civil rights and high living standards.
• Eco-counselling Enterprise is a European-wide cooperative network focusing on sustainable management, with emphasis on environmental issues.
• The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) is a non-partisan, non-advocacy, not-for-profit international organisation with a mission to assist in solving environmental problems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The center fulfils this mission by promoting cooperation among non-governmental organisations, governments, businesses and other environmental stakeholders, and by supporting the free exchange of information and public participation in environmental decision making.
• Fundación Entorno - BCSD Spain is a private non-profit organization serving businesses with a desire to strengthen their commitment to sustainable development. Established in 1995 by a group of large companies, it now assists more than 7,000 companies annually.

The Fundación strives to respond with practical ideas and management strategies, to the complex questions facing today’s business world.

• EUCETSA currently represents fourteen trade associations of environmental technology equipment suppliers, in the area of air, water, soil and waste technologies. The total amount of represented environmental technology companies is well over 1500 companies.
• The mission of TBLI Consulting Group is to maximize the financial, social, and environmental returns of investments, simultaneously, for our clients and partners. Triple Bottom Line Investing (TBLI) is based on the principle that positive financial, social, and environmental returns are not mutually exclusive. Wise investments ensure returns in all three areas.
• Eurosif (the European Social Investment Forum) is a pan-European group whose mission is to address Sustainability through Financial Markets. Current member affiliates of Eurosif include pension funds, financial service providers, academic institutes, research associations and NGO’s. The association is a not-for-profit entity that represents assets totalling over €600bn through its affiliate membership.