Environment
TANNER Vietnam joins WWF Green Office list
  • | SGT | August 28, 2010 08:50 PM

The World Wide Fund for Nature in Vietnam, better known as WWF Vietnam, has coffered the WWF Green Office certificate on TANNER Vietnam Ltd. to recognize its successful implementation of an environmental management plan in the workplace.

Elmar Dutt (R) of TANNER Vietnam receives the WWF Green Office certificate from Tabitha Carvan (L) of WWF Vietnam.

WWF Vietnam told the Daily on the phone that the German company specializing in professional technical documentation demonstrated its strong commitment to environmental protection by developing a staff-rewards program for the “greenest” employees just a few months it applied for the WWF Green Office certificate.

Elmar Dutt, managing director of TANNER Vietnam, said in a statement that the company awarded all the money saved from environment-friendly work practices to the staff members who earn the most “green” points by using sustainable transport, saving energy and reducing paper consumption.

“TANNER is really putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to being a Green Office,” Dutt said. “Now, it’s not only the environment that benefits, it’s our staff, too.”

To be recognized as a WWF Green Office, TANNER Vietnam has worked out and implemented a host of measures to cut consumption of electricity by 16%, of paper by up to 50% and of water by 12%. Moreover, the number of staff using green transportation means to commute to work has increased to 21%.

Tabitha Carvan, green office coordinator of WWF Vietnam, said the certificate for the TANNER office rewarded the impressive dedication and innovation demonstrated by the company to reduce its impact on the environment.

TANNER Vietnam is the first German company certified as a green office in Vietnam and now appears on the list of WWF Green Office members in this country together with the Finnish embassy, the British embassy and British consulate general as well as Conforama, OUT-2 Design and Toyota Motors Vietnam.

WWF Finland initiated the Green Office Program in 1997 to help companies and other organizations to make simple but practical changes to their office environment and to employee behavior in order to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Companies and organizations in Vietnam can apply for the WWF Green Office program and then implement the criteria for environmental management set by WWF Vietnam for around three months. WWF Vietnam will present a one-year certificate to those applicants able to meet those requirements.

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