Building employee awareness of sustainable development issues through training

Sustainable development challenges are the subject of awareness/training initiatives to embed them in the corporate culture and everyday practices.

Awareness campaigns

Several Group entities have a section on their Intranet dedicated to sustainable development. For several years, regular events and activities have been organised in each entity to raise employee awareness about sustainable development challenges:

  • in recent years, CNP Assurances has organised competitions, surveys and conferences, shared guidelines, and raised awareness on eco-driving. In 2014, a conference was held in Paris for all employees on socially responsible investment;
  • in 2015 a collection of used coffee capsules was organised during Sustainable Development Week on CNP Assurances sites (Paris, Arcueil, Angers). The sale of material obtained from waste raised money that was matched by the Company and donated to Alliance française in Vanuatu for reconstruction efforts in the archipelago, and Iniciativa Verde for reforestation efforts in Brazil’s Atlantic forest;
  • Sustainable Development Week was also an opportunity to launch a partnership with “Our Neighbourhoods Have Talent” (Nos quartiers ont des talents – NQT). This association connects young graduates from priority or disadvantaged neighbourhoods with volunteer sponsors in the Company. Their aim is to help and guide them in their search for their first job;
  • COP21 was widely discussed within CNP Assurances, with a wide variety of information distributed via the Intranet and the issuance of a press release highlighting the Company’s commitments in respect of the environmental and energy transition. Nine hundred employees took part in an interactive serious game on these issues and on the strategy implemented by CNP Assurances to meet this challenge;
  • various awareness campaigns focused on eco-gestures within the Group’s entities: MFPrévoyance educated employees about sorting, and La Banque Postale Prévoyance raised awareness about three eco-responsible habits (turning off lights and computers, limiting print-outs). The Caixa Seguradora group continues its intense employee awareness campaign each year. In Argentina, 2015 was marked by the launch of the “Multiplicar” programme aimed at reinforcing the responsible behaviour of employees through regular activities on the themes of recycling and solidarity, including training on sorting;
  • in addition, in conjunction with the installation of defibrillators in CNP Partners’ offices, 58 Company employees participated in races to promote their use. Caixa Seguradora circulated its new code of ethics and conduct to all of its employees.

Training

The Caixa Seguradora group offers e-learning courses on socio-environmental responsibility for all staff, with 238 people trained in 2015.

CNP UniCredit Vita provided diversity training to all staff in 2015. It also tested a smart-working approach during the months of the World Expo in Milan, focusing on work-life balance, teleworking and remote control.