Glossary

C

Cap and trade system
A system that sets an overall emissions limit, allocates emissions allowances to participants and allows them to trade allowances and emission credits with each other.
Capacity building
Efforts aimed at developing human skills or social infrastructures within an organisation, community or country.
Carbon Disclosure Project
A co-ordinating secretariat for a group of institutional investors that asks the 500 largest companies in the world by market capitalisation to disclose investment-relevant information concerning their greenhouse gas emissions.
Carbon monoxide
A natural gas formed by the incomplete burning of organic material.
Child labour
We use the International Labour Organisation definition of child labour in conventions 138 and 182. For more information, please visit www.ilo.org
Competent authorities
Authorities to which governments or pan-governmental organisations (such as the EU) have delegated competence to deal with specific issues.
Consumers
Smokers, people who use our products.
Corporate responsibility (CR)
Organisations fulfilling the social and environmental responsibilities and duties within their sphere of influence; achieved by the design and implementation of a comprehensive and integrated approach.
Customers
Our trading partners and distributors.

Reports

Corporate Responsibility Review 2009

Annual report 2008


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