Environmental protection
Environmental protection is a particularly important aspect in this context. For many years, we have been optimizing our daily activities to ensure that we use our resources sparingly. Simple issues such as waste separation and paper avoidance are of course a matter of course. However, as an IT company - without industrial production - it is essentially about the use of renewable energies for operations. A few years ago, we switched internally to using 100% renewable electricity. All of the servers and data centers we use also rely entirely on renewable energy and operate their systems in a CO₂-neutral manner.
Avoiding CO₂ from air travel and transport
We kept air travel to a minimum even before the pandemic and rely on rail travel within Germany whenever possible. Even before the pandemic, we already had the option of working remotely, partly with the aim of avoiding car journeys. This aspect will become even more important in the future. We support local public transport with a subsidy for monthly HVV tickets and new company vehicles are equipped with electric drives that are charged exclusively with renewable electricity. We also provide our employees with company bicycles.
Compensation for 2021
We have brought a new partner on board for the emissions generated in 2021: ClimatePartner. We continue to rely on klima.metrix for the automated analyses, but are now going even further and having our strategy and results verified by ClimatePartner. ClimatePartner is also responsible for offsetting.
Climate-neutral company - this means that we have recorded our greenhouse gas emissions, are continuously reducing them and have offset the remaining emissions through a specific climate protection project. In doing so, we are also promoting the achievement of global Sustainable Development Goals, such as the fight against poverty or the improvement of living conditions in emerging and developing countries.Climate neutrality for companies includes direct emissions caused within the company (electricity and heat generation, vehicle fleet, volatile gases) and indirect emissions from purchased energy, business travel and employee commuting.
We are also working to reduce our ecological footprint and ensure a growing commitment to climate protection within our company.
Compensation for 2020
Based on our detailed analysis, we have already made many optimizations, but there are still emissions that we have not yet been able to avoid. We have already decided to offset all emissions generated by our company from 2020 onwards with the help of the NGO atmosfair.
Our way forward
Sustainability has become an integral part of our values and our daily activities.
And when it comes to climate protection, this means constantly analyzing in detail, adapting our actions and reducing our consumption, while offsetting all emissions that do occur in order to work in a climate-neutral way.