Environment Unit
Staffed with specialized personnel, the Unit coordinates, since 2004, the daily operations for the monitoring and reduction of the Bank’s environmental footprint.
Common Environmental Culture
EMS’s success lies in the employees’ environmental education and engagement. Environmental education is a strategic pursuit of the HR and is realised on a two-pronged approach. The first approach involves all employees and is mainly implemented with e-learning programmes, focusing on basic environmental concepts and the Bank’s environmental work, while the second approach targets specific groups of employees and concerns issues such as EMS procedures.
During 2013-2014, due to the integration of the infrastructure of six acquired banks in the existing EMS and aiming to create a common environmental culture, priority was given to the training of employees.
Since 2008 more than 30,700 environmental e-learning courses have been assigned and more than 9,000 employees have completed at least one.
In-house development of electronic applications and control procedures
In order to manage all environmental data (~400,000 inputs per year), two applications have been developed: the “Environmental Footprint Database”, an innovative tool designed according to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol initiative, and the electronic application “Environmental Management”. The Environmental Footprint Database estimates the environmental impacts of the Bank’s operation (e.g. energy consumption, transportation), with the option to trace the environmental performance of each individual building infrastructure. The Environmental Management application is used by the employees in branches directly involved in the EMS, to enter data regarding the recycling of materials and water / oil consumption, which are then automatically uploaded to the “Environmental Footprint Database”.
Aiming to fully comply with legal environmental requirements, the “Environmental Legislation and Case Law Database” has been developed and is constantly updated by a special environmental legal advisor.
The Group’s Internal Audit performs ~700 inspections in branches, annually, in order to detect non- compliances and proceed with corrective action plans.
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