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Access to electricity
Electricity is essential for social and economic development. Yet almost one-third of the world’s people have no electricity supply. ABB’s "Access to Electricity" program will show how to solve the problem, using small-scale, sustainable solutions.
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For 2001, we have changed the way ABB reports its sustainability performance. The information on the following pages is structured according to the recommendations of the "Sustainability Reporting Guidelines" published in June 2000 by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) - a body funded by, among others, the United Nations and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The GRI suggests reporting indicators for the "triple bottom line" - environmental, economic and social performance - though it freely admits that the latter two are at a very early stage of development.
As far as possible, we have gathered the type of data suggested by the GRI and presented it in the format it suggests. In some cases, the performance indicators suggested by the GRI have not been measured by ABB before; it is, therefore, impossible to make comparisons with previous years. This problem will, of course, be solved with the passage of time.
Some of the performance indicators suggested by the GRI are not relevant to ABB, or cannot be presented meaningfully or aggregated at this stage across our multinational corporation.
We hope to work closely with the GRI in the future to refine its list of performance indicators, as applied to ABB.