KÖVET Association for Sustainable Economies

Our mission: “The main objective of KÖVET is to assist organizations on the road to sustainable development.”
KÖVET Association for Sustainable Economies, established in October 1995, is an association to promote environmentally aware business management towards enterprises. The main activity of KÖVET is to promote preventive environmental solutions, and ensure information exchange primarily in the business sector. The organization acts as a platform for ongoing information exchange, with the aim of promoting environmentally aware business management, to find new ways for industry to reduce its environmental impacts and to help to use this as a basis for a competitive advantage. Our long-term goal is to assist organizations to become sustainable and responsible for the society.
KÖVET is the Hungarian member organization of INEM (International Network for Environmental Management), CSR Europe and Global Footprint Network through which it is linked to international sustainable business initiatives and projects. KÖVET is an institution to raise awareness, spread the idea and tools of environmental management and corporate social responsibility.

It offers services and organizes practical programs to spread the ideas and tools of company operation with less environmental burdens. Main activities are trainings, demonstration projects, guidebooks, but KÖVET also organizes events, collects and distributes environmental management literature, deals with public and media work, provides ongoing information exchange, expert advice, and implementations of local and international programs. It is an organization experienced in implementing small- and large-scale EU and other publicly financed projects.

KÖVET is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, free from lobby interest, with a special public benefit status. KÖVET is neutral in political debates. Its members are not 'green firms' but companies feeling responsibility for their environment, trying to realign their activities on this basis and to spread the knowledge about environmental management.

Operational tasks are administered by the secretariat with 10 full time employees. Eight of them are experts and project managers, with diverse educational background, work experience and language skills.