Because of its keen sense of social involvement, VelopA always considers the impact of its activities on our living environment. To achieve this, VelopA sets itself environmental objectives every year, such as:
VelopA’s environmental policy is based on the best possible fit between product, process and organization. VelopA has also developed a sustainability policy concerning people, resources and the environment, and holds sustainability meetings.
VelopA is striving to reduce its CO2 emissions by 30% by 2020, taking 2008 as its reference year. It will seek to achieve this in a variety of ways, such as:
In October 2010, VelopA achieved a level two certificate in CO2 awareness. VelopA aims to achieve its level 5 certificate in CO2 awareness in 2012.
VelopA monitors and evaluates its energy consumption every year in order to continue reducing it. VelopA began to monitor its emissions in 2008, and as such 2008 serves as the reference year. In 2008, VelopA’s total emissions of CO2 amounted to 608 tons. In 2009 this was 580 tons and in 2010 it fell again to 436 tons. A key factor in this reduction was the decision to switch to green electricity in the middle of 2009. VelopA’s carbon footprint for 2008-2010 is displayed below.
Read more about our CO2 performance ladder here.
As well as all the measures that VelopA has taken to ensure sustainability, the company also compensates for all its unavoidable CO2 emissions by investing in a sustainable energy project by means of Gold Standard credits.
The Gold Standard is the highest quality standard of them all when it comes to CO2 compensation. Only sustainable energy projects that meet all the requirements set by the Gold Standard organization are awarded the Gold Standard and are entitled to generate Gold Standard credits from the projects concerned on the basis of the sustainable energy produced.
The funds from CO2 compensation are channelled into two Gold Standard wind energy projects called Changbin and Taichung off the west coast of Taiwan. Together, the project includes 65 wind turbines each with a capacity of 2.3MW. This provides enough sustainable energy for a total of 110,000 households. The energy generated makes a direct contribution to reducing CO2 emissions from the Taiwanese electricity network, which relies mainly on coal. The project improves the local environment, stimulates sustainable energy production in the Taiwanese economy and provides employment opportunities for the local population.
VelopA achieves reductions in waste through low-waste design, purchasing and packaging. VelopA seeks to limit its consumption of paper. The paper that we use is always FSC or Cradle to Cradle paper.
...VelopA also has a Fair Trade coffee machine.
...VelopA promotes ‘green’ products (e.g. recycled paper, green electricity). For example, we use Cradle to Cradle toilet paper in our toilets.
...VelopA regularly offers work experience and internships so that younger generations can gain experience too.
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