As a way of increasing our responsible performance, we reaffirm commitments to voluntary socio-environmental pacts and encourage our suppliers to adhere to these initiatives.
Know what programs we are signatories to and the entities that we are partners that focus on sustainable development that we support:
CEBDS
CARAMURU ALIMENTOS is an associate member of CEBDS, the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development. The council promotes corporate sustainability through articulation with governments and civil society, sharing best sustainability practices of member companies, as well as innovations in risk management, strategic partnerships and training and dissemination of knowledge to promote business competitiveness. This partnership reinforces our commitment to the ESG agenda for an increasingly sustainable future.
PACTO GLOBAL (Global Compact)
Since 2011, CARAMURU ALIMENTOS has been a signatory to the Global Compact’s set of commitments. The action mobilizes leaders of the international business community to support the promotion of core values in the areas of environment, human rights and labor and anti-corruption. This is an initiative of the United Nations Environment Program (UN), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the United Nations Development (UNDP).
BUSINESS PACT FOR INTEGRITY AND AGAINST CORRUPTION
Commitment to business ethics. The Business Pact for Integrity and Against Corruption represents a set of guidelines and procedures that must be adopted by the signatory companies in their relationships with entities and public agents. This is an initiative of the Ethos Institute, UniEthos, Patri and Public Policies, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Brazilian Committee of the Global Compact.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS)
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), launched in 2015, aim to promote a multisectoral approach to promote, among other topics, the eradication of poverty and hunger, respect for human rights and the promotion of good -be. These objectives are being incorporated into the strategy and performance of the company and gaining strength from one of our most legitimate causes, the fight against food waste.
NATIONAL PACT FOR THE ERADICATION OF SLAVE LABOR (INPACTO)
It engages private enterprise to commit itself to acting in a meaningful way for the eradication of slave labor in its productive chains, for example, by encouraging non-commercialization with suppliers who use slave labor. THE Inpacto is an initiative of the Ethos Institute, Social Observatory Institute, International Labor Organization (ILO) and NGO Reporter Brazil.
2017 INTEGRATION AWARD
Promoted by the Grupo Brasil – Working for Integration there (Argentina), the award aims to recognize the work of partner companies that develop commercial projects to promote sustainable growth.
In 2017, CARAMURU ALIMENTOS received the award in the Sustainability and Environment category with the Automated Composting project, inaugurated in October of the same year at the CARAMURU ALIMENTOS Campo Austral unit in Sinsacate, a municipality in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, transforming the unit into the first country with sustainable technology.