{"id":1321,"date":"2021-07-08T12:42:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gco.eramet.com\/uncategorized\/christel-bories-we-cannot-have-a-sustainable-business-in-our-industry-without-a-strong-social-commitment\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T15:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:28:53","slug":"christel-bories-we-cannot-have-a-sustainable-business-in-our-industry-without-a-strong-social-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grande-cote.eramet.com\/en\/christel-bories-we-cannot-have-a-sustainable-business-in-our-industry-without-a-strong-social-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Christel Bories: \u201cWe cannot have a sustainable business in our industry without a strong social commitment.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-justify-content-center fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1468.8px;margin-left: calc(-2% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-2% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.47%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.47%;--awb-width-medium:66.666666666667%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.47%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.47%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0.98%;--awb-spacing-left-small:0.98%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>During Eramet\u2019s participation in the Corporate Social Responsibility Summit on July 7 and 8, Christel Bories discussed the Group\u2019s CSR vision for Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For its very first edition, the Corporate Social Responsibility Summit (Africa &#8211; France &#8211; Europe), organized by Affectio Mutandi, brought together a selection of major players in Africa (companies, governments, and other stakeholders). All shared a commitment to making CSR their central concern in order to achieve sustainable economic and social development, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eramet subsidiaries Comilog (Gabon)<\/strong> and <strong>Grande C\u00f4te Op\u00e9rations (GCO \u2013 Senegal)<\/strong> were on hand to present their respective CSR programs: Leod-Paul Batolo, Director and CEO of Comilog, and Aliou Ba, Public Affairs &amp; CSR Reporting Coordinator at GCO, participated in the \u201cThe time of shared prosperity\u201d and \u201cThe time of societal innovation\u201d panels, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>During this unprecedented event, <strong>Christel Bories, Chairwoman and CEO of the Eramet Group,<\/strong> detailed her vision of CSR in Africa during a discussion with <strong>Virginie Mounanga, CEO of Blanc Cristal Expertise and strategic communications consultant for The World Bank:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"L&#039;engagement soci\u00e9tal d&#039;Eramet : \u00e9change entre Christel Bories et Virginie Mounanga - Juillet 2021\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yO9kHIyyNtQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Corporate Social Responsibility Summit took place on July 7 and 8, 2021 via video conference, notably in Lom\u00e9 (Togo), Dakar (Senegal), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Abidjan (C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire), Libreville (Gabon), Kinshasa (Congo), and Paris (France).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Visit the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sommetengagementsocietal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> <\/strong>of the Corporate Social Responsibility Summit<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Discover <a href=\"https:\/\/gco.eramet.com\/en\/gco\/our-commitments\/\"><strong>GCO\u2019s social and environmental commitments in Senegal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[80,98],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-christel-bories-en","tag-csr-roadmap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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