During recent
years, our perception and analysis of sustainable development issues
has evolved in parallel to Vivendi’s transformation. The group has
reported on this evolution in its annual Sustainable Development Reports.
In the first edition of its report in 1999, the group, then active in
business sectors involving the environment, drew up an environmental
report.
In the subsequent editions, Vivendi - which had begun
developing its activities in the media and telecommunications sectors, in
particular with the acquisition of assets overseas - broadened the scope
of its Sustainable Development Report to include its environmental and
social responsibility.
The report published in 2003 noted the serious
financial difficulties the group had met with in 2002 and began an
approach using the three pillars, economic, social, and environmental, to
better evaluate the consequences of the large-scale programs of cost
reduction and restructuring that were being implemented.
The
Sustainable
Development Report, published in 2004, marked a step in Vivendi’s
recovery and a refocusing on two business sectors: media and telecommunications.
It took into account the Group’s process of reflection which
began in 2003 to better understand the nature of specific issues such as
those related to production and distribution of content: promotion of
cultural diversity, knowledge sharing and contributing to raising the
public’s awareness of sustainable development issues, and the protection
of minors. The 2005 and 2006 reports go even further in the analysis of
specific issues while integrating that analysis with a global approach to
corporate social responsibility.
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