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Sustainability in Romania

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  • Mariana Pintilie

    (Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania)

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This paper aims to highlight the most current methods of sustainability in the economic context at the European level, as well as at the Romanian level. Several reports of transnational companies are introduced. The reports of the surveyed companies covered several areas, such as Economic Impact, Product and Marketing Responsibility, Community Investments, for example: we realised a ranking of the most sustainable companies in Romania, based on the criteria of the Corporate Sustainability&Transparency Index (CST). The CST is the only one in Romania that examines the sustainability indicators of companies and, at the same time, provides information on how they carry out their activity in terms of sustainability. The best rated companies according to the CST were Banca Transilvania, Coca-Cola HBC Romania and Kaufland Romania, with 95% scores on this index. Of 750 companies with over 500 employees, over 700 failed to reach 50% on this index. Most companies in Romania employing over 500 people, had very low scores on CST. This implies that the cirucular economy, whereby waste from one party is utilised as a resource for another, thereby creating an efficient supply chain is still very weak in Romania.

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  • Mariana Pintilie, 2026. "Sustainability in Romania," Economics and Applied Informatics, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, issue 1, pages 172-175.
    • Handle: RePEc:ddj:fseeai:y:2026:i:1:p:172-175
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.35219/eai15840409588
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