(a) Innovative environmental governance management
3M promises to actively protect the environment, undertake corporate social responsibility and realize sustainable economic development. 3M believes that the company's long-term success stems from the application and implementation of the principles of sustainable development: environmental management, social contribution and creating economic value. At the same time, 3M also believes that only by becoming a dynamic and successful enterprise can it become a positive contributor to sustainable development from beginning to end.
3M emphasizes that the purpose of environmental protection is to "maintain biodiversity, positively influence climate change, protect natural areas and provide opportunities for volunteers to participate".
In the United States, 3M works closely with environmental organizations in the region to help protect the natural ecological environment of local communities. Including cooperation with national nature reserves to buy land in Minnesota and Texas to protect wildlife; In Alabama, a 3 million pound fund helped rebuild riverbanks and broad-leaved forests, thus protecting the Painted Stone River, which is the only habitat for some endangered fish and river birds in the area. In central New Jersey, it helps to protect many rivers, which play a key role in the water supply in central New Jersey.
In China, as part of the global strategy to support environmental protection, the 3M Fund donated 4 million US dollars through the international environmental protection organization-Conservation International (CI) to carry out vegetation protection and multi-species environmental ecological afforestation projects in southwest China and freshwater protection in China. Among them, the forest multi-benefit project in the southwest of China aims to support the ecological construction and biodiversity protection in China. As southwest China is one of the regions with the richest biodiversity in the world, this project not only maximizes the benefits of government ecological construction projects, but also provides a solid foundation for the sustainable economic development of southwest China. The freshwater protection project aims to explore how to use more effective economic means to alleviate the contradiction between protection and development by implementing the pilot project of paid ecological services in river basins, and to promote the successful model nationwide.
(2) Experience in fulfilling social responsibilities
3M Company actively fulfilled its social responsibilities and devoted itself to social welfare undertakings. Since 1998, 3M China Co., Ltd. has funded many scientific research institutions and universities, and started to set up "3M Creation Scholarships" in some famous universities to encourage future talents to study in safety engineering, environmental engineering, preventive medicine, chemical engineering, material science, traffic safety and other multidisciplinary fields. In March, 2003, 3M China donated money to the China Finals of Intellectual Olympics and the China team participating in the world competition. In 2005, 3M established the "3M Creative Scholarship" in the Library Department of Guangzhou Chang 'an University and Sun Yat-sen University respectively to train talents in specialized fields.
During the period of SARS in 2003, 3M China Company urgently airlifted 500,000 professional protective masks designated by the World Health Organization to prevent SARS, and donated them to Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Hong Kong, where the SARS epidemic was severe. On June 5438+ 10, 2005, employees of 3M China donated RMB 65438+400,000 to the tsunami-stricken countries in the Indian Ocean. Therefore, 3M Company has also been recognized by the society.