Our environmental management

ERGO aims to continuously improve its own contribution to environmental protection. With a Group-wide environmental management system, we are constantly developing our measures throughout our business operations.

ERGO manages the implementation of the Group-wide environmental and climate protection strategy using a standardised system. Our business’s carbon footprint constitutes the key indicator for measuring and evaluating our environmental performance. We calculate our CO₂ emissions annually from energy, paper and water consumption, business trips and waste. This is done in standardised form according to internationally recognised methods and conversion factors such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. We are also developing measures to further reduce resource consumption and achieve our climate protection targets.

Energy-efficiency and resource-conserving measures include:

• Moves to energy-efficient office buildings
• Reduction of office space
• Gradual conversion of vehicle fleets to fuel-efficient hybrid and e-cars
• Shift from short-haul flights to rail travel
• Electric charging stations for our employees at our major sites in Germany
• Mandatory eco-driving training for company car drivers in Germany