SDG 13: Climate action
How do we ensure that the earth remains inhabitable for our children and for subsequent generations? The effects of climate change affect us all. IT can be the engine that acts as a catalyst for sustainable solutions to various climate challenges. Conclusions uses knowledge, services, and innovations to create positive impact.
Biodiversity
The loss of biodiversity and collapse of ecosystems has a disastrous impact on the world and the economy. We have a moral and economic responsibility to devote ourselves to limiting the negative impact of our operational processes on biodiversity and to make sure that we have a positive impact as well.
Circular economy
Our businesses that produce devices themselves or work with hardware directly have implemented waste management and recycling processes. The impact that we, as an IT service provider, have on the use of raw materials in the chain and the extent to which we can help to reduce this impact is part of the agenda for the coming years.
Where we’re headed
We know the level of the CO2 emissions caused by our own operational processes and have an increasingly better idea of our chain. To reduce the emissions, we have implemented a variety of measures that will lead to a 60% reduction by 2025 compared with 2016.
But we want to and have to speed things up. We are therefore intensifying our efforts in the coming years with a focus on:
- Insight into and reduction of emission greenhouse gases in scopes 1, 2 and 3, translated into scientifically based goals.
- Intensifying the use of real green energy (operational processes and chain).
- Insight into and improvement, where necessary, of water management and waste in our supply chain and data chain.
Examples of programmes that contribute to this:
1. Sustainable mobility and fossil-free fleet
2. Sustainable accommodation
3. Zero waste company restaurants
The effects of climate change affect us all. We focus on reducing the negative impact of our operational processes and our chain on the environment.
Danique Lindner