CERES principles

Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) Principles (CERES, 1989) includes ten principles for voluntary organizational endorsement, the purpose of which is to not only formalize their dedication to environmental awareness and accountability, but also actively commit to an ongoing process of continuous improvement, dialogue and comprehensive, systematic public reporting. These are one of the oldest sets of principles and were originally named the Valdez Principles (CERES, 1989). 

Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) Principles, 1989. Available at http //www.ceres.org/ our work/principles.htm, March 14, 2004. 

The CERES Principles were developed by the Coalition of Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES), a leading coalition of environmental investor and advocacy groups, to establish a set of environmental criteria by which investors and others could assess the environmental performance of companies. 

Users. Seventy large companies have endorsed the Principles. Environmental groups consider signing onto the CERES principles an indicator of commitment to excellence in environmental performance. 

The ten CERES principles, originally known as the Valdez principles, remain at the heart of the CERES work, which addresses the concept of sustainability. These principles are ... 

From the outset, the CERES principles were mainly adopted by companies that already had strong green reputations, such as Body Shop. Over the years that followed, the momentum behind the concept continued to build and, by the end of 1997, 46 companies had endorsed the CERES principles, including a number of big business players such as Bank America, Baxter International, Coca-Cola, General Motors and Polaroid. By this time, the CERES company members represented 240 billion in sales revenues per year and employed about one million people. 

In 1988, the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economics (a group of investors and environmentalists) put together a code (first called the Valdez Principles, now the CERES Principles) for corporations to follow.121 It includes... 

Special Features. Ten-point code of conduct that focuses on environmental awareness and accountability. CERES is a pioneer in setting environmental performance standards. It was originally entitled the Valdez Principles and promoted in response to the Valdez oil spill. 

Adduct a- dakt, a- [L adductus, pp of addu-cere (ca. 1839) vt. (1) The cyclic product of an addition reaction between one unsaturated compound, such as a diene and another. (2) A crystaUine mixture, not a true compound, in which molecules of one of the components are contained within the crystal-lattice framework of the other component. Such complexes are stable at room temperature but the entrapped component can escape when the mixture is melted or dissolved. Odian GC (2004) Principles of polymerization. John Wiley and Sons Inc., New York. 

---