Editorial

The popular scientific magazine of MOL issued the first time its special edition dedicated to sustainable development, following the first Integrated Annual Report 2008 of MOL Group.

Do these two things are carrying any message at all? We think yes, they do!

Our company took the road, where all business decisions pass the proof of sustainability, where corporate sustainability forms a „business as usual” issue!

There are several essential questions and dilemmas to answer on this road, and we are in search of the best answers, choices and solutions as well as others.

The authors from our best experts publishing in this special edition summarize these questions and potential answers with excellent knowledge and outlook on both, global and corporate horizon: challenges of the oil, gas and energy sector derived from the climate change, security of the energy and the renewable energy sources, sustainability – competitiveness – profit making, operational transparency and strong corporate governance, responsible care of our recent and future products following the life-cycle approach, the pressure for technology renewal in order to reduce the environmental pollution, the need for increased focus on both, the closer and broader environment of our operations, on the social impacts, on the importance of preserving biodiversity, on the work safety and on workplace health promotion.

All these above are highlighted arbitrarily by us only as probably the most important topics, but you, dear Reader may surely find many other more …

The articles of this special edition leave stimulating, open questions too, however present prominently those answers and choices which we aim the sustainability of our company and the sustainable development with.

I recommend you with all my heart the reading and co-thinking of all the next pages!

György Mosonyi
GCEO, Chairman of the SD Committee

Béla Cseh
VP Group SD&HSE