Managing Our Impact
We are focused on reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with our operations – mitigating our impact on climate change.
Our parent company, Allianz SE, adopted a comprehensive Climate Change Strategy aimed at reducing the Group’s carbon footprint by 20% of the 2006 figure by 2012. Our target, is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (measured in carbon dioxide equivalents – CO2e) by 25% per employee, over the same time period. We met, and exceeded, this target in 2009.
Our activities are guided by our Environmental Policy, which sets out how we intend to reduce our environmental impact by:
- reducing energy consumption by avoiding use and improving the energy efficiency of our buildings and equipment;
- purchasing renewable energy in all fully maintained buildings;
- reducing business travel and the average emissions of our company car fleet;
- minimising the amount of waste we send to landfill by avoiding waste generation and maximising recycling; and
- working with suppliers to help them to reduce the environmental impact of our purchasing.
