Heidelberg has announced that it is aiming to become carbon neutral by 2030. As part of this drive, the company has established an Environmental Social Governance (ESG) panel, which will be responsible for developing strategy and defining, implementing, and monitoring the associated measures.
‘Heidelberg is well aware of its responsibilities regarding the dangers posed by global climate change and affirms the 1.5-degree target of the Paris Agreement,’ explained CEO, Rainer Hundsdörfer. ‘For many years, we have been actively working to gradually minimize harmful emissions and reduce the health and environmental impact of our sites. We have now made a further commitment to ensuring our worldwide production and distribution sites are operating on a climate-neutral basis by 2030, which is earlier than required by legislation.’
In addition to new ESG panel, which will be headed by Dr. Eva Boll, the company has also defined several additional measures and started to roll them out.
Initially Heidelberg’s focus is on increasing energy efficiency at all production and distribution sites and supplying these sites with green energy. The firm will then use emissions certificates to offset the residual, unavoidable emissions before turning its attentions to achieving complete climate neutrality at its sites without the use of emissions certificates.
