| 2008 |
- WEC establishes office in Shanghai, China
- WEC begins new Greening the Supply Chain Project with Shanghai General Motors
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2006 |
- US AID funds WEC’s work for The Alliance For Competitive Production in El Salvador
- WEC El Salvador office is established
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| 2005 |
- "Greening the Supply Chain Initiative" expands to China and Romania with IEF Members General Motors and Alcoa.
- Holds first IEF Meeting in Beijing, China in partnership with US EPA and China Enterprise Confederation
- WEC Headquarters office is relocated to Washington, D.C.
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| 2003 |
- WEC launches the "Greening the Supply Chain Initiative" with IEF Members Alcoa and Johnson & Johnson in Mexico. Further pilot projects are soon being implemented in Brazil.
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| 2002 |
- WEC launches Greening the Supply Chain and Cleaner Production programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- WEC launches Global Corporate Citizenship (GCC) Working Group to facilitate and promote the operationalization of CSR policy and practices.
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| 2001 |
- CSR Task Team presents Sustainability Verification Guidelines at April IEF Ministerial meeting
- WEC opens European office at the Environment Science Center of the University of Augsburg in Augsburg, Germany.
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| 2000 |
- Ten out of eleven Pollution Prevention Centers still in operation
- WEC launches International Corporate Social Responsibility (ICSR) Task Team at first WEC Forum on Sustainability
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| 1997 |
- Conducts first capacity building projects in Ukraine and Central Asian Republics
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| 1996 |
- Holds first IEF Meeting in Asia
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| 1995 |
- Signs Cooperation Agreement with the Swiss Government for work in Chile, Colombia, Bulgaria and Romania
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| 1994 |
- Establishes first Pollution Prevention Centers in nine Central and Eastern European countries
- Conducts 500th capacity building Project in Bandung, Indonesia
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| 1993 |
- Launches Local Accident Mitigation and Prevention programs in India, Indonesia, Mexico and Thailand
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| 1991 |
- Holds first IEF meeting in Europe
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| 1989 |
- Receives first World Bank funding for projects in India and Poland
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| 1987 |
- Initiates Country Profile Program - Holds first IEF workshop - Holds first capacity building activities in Asia
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| 1985 |
- WEC Project Aftermath Workshop focuses global attention on environmental safety after Bhopal
- WEC creates and presents first WEC Gold Medal for International Corporate Environmental Achievement to 3M
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| 1981 |
- Becomes a wholly independent, not-for-profit, non-advocacy organisation
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| 1977 |
- Holds first meeting of the International Environment Forum (IEF)
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| 1974 |
- Receives founding grant from United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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