{"id":3384,"date":"2021-09-07T08:28:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/constab.com\/?page_id=2949"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:39:10","slug":"environmental-protection-and-climate-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/constab.com\/en\/unternehmen\/commitment-to-the-future\/environmental-protection-and-climate-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental protection and climate neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Setting new priorities:
\nClimate neutrality decides our future.<\/h2>[vc_column_text]As a company that is part of a globally active group of companies, we stand by our social responsibility and want to protect the environment and effectively counter climate change by voluntarily reducing emissions and offsetting unavoidable emissions.<\/p>\n

Our current contribution to this goal is – in addition to the continuous reduction of our CO2<\/sub><\/span> emissions – a neutralisation of our C02 footprint, i.e. the amount of greenhouse gases (measured in CO2<\/sub><\/span> equivalents) that are generated directly and indirectly by our company. This takes into account the emissions generated by raw materials, production, transport and trade, use, recycling and disposal.<\/p>\n

The result can be used to evaluate and compare influences on the climate. Necessary reduction potentials can be identified, measures developed and their effectiveness evaluated.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row top_padding=”60″ bottom_padding=”20″][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

The ecological footprint: calculated by a neutral authority<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row bottom_padding=”50″ class=”fussabdruck”][vc_column width=”4\/6″][vc_column_text]We have been constantly calculating our CO2<\/sub><\/span> footprint since 2019. The emission balance was calculated by using the official GHG (Greenhouse Gas) Protocol guidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n

The calculation included the seven main greenhouse gases defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Kyoto Protocol: carbon dioxide (CO2<\/sub><\/span>), methane (CH), nitrous oxide (Np), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), nitrogen trifluoride (NF) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6).<\/p>\n

Not every one of these seven main greenhouse gases is equally effective. Methane, for example, is 21 times more damaging to the climate than CO2<\/sub><\/span>, nitrous oxide 310 times and sulphur hexafluoride as much as 14,000 times. In order to compare the emissions with each other, all greenhouse gases were therefore converted to CO2<\/sub><\/span>. This is then referred to as CO2 equivalents. The conversion of the consumption data collected by CONSTAB GER was done using emission factors, which indicate the emissions per unit (e.g. per kilowatt hour of electricity or litre of petrol).<\/p>\n

Since 2022, we have been able to significantly reduce our ecological footprint compared to previous years through the voluntary use of 100% green electricity, as this will reduce SCOPE 2 emissions completely to zero.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/6″]

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Factors influencing the ecological footprint<\/h3>\n