AEB is climate-neutral and plans 25% cut in carbon emissions

Sustainability focus areas include business travel, fuel consumption, commuting, and food offered at the company. “Protecting the climate and environment are top priorities for AEB, right alongside our business success and social engagement. This is evident throughout the company and in much of what we do,” remarks Elisabeth Götting, who heads the sustainability project at AEB. 

The company operates green data centers with a sustainable energy concept for its cloud products and solutions, relies on green electricity for its office sites, and has had a policy in place for over a decade to reduce emissions from its fleet of company cars. "And we are continuously working on making our commitment in everyday life even more tangible for our customers and colleagues," says Elisabeth Götting.

AEB has focused its carbon-reduction efforts on the areas of business travel, fuel consumption, employee commuting, and food purchasing to meet its goals by the end of 2023. Initiatives include switching to EVs, subsidizing the use of public transit, booking climate-friendly hotels when employees travel for business, and reducing the amount of meat consumed in the company cafeteria.

To offset its own carbon emissions and develop a plan for reducing them, AEB began by having its greenhouse gas emissions evaluated. The evaluation drew upon data from 2019, the last year of normal business operations before the Covid-19 pandemic. This established an appropriate benchmark for comparing future years without pandemic-related disruptions. 

The measurements included not only CO2 emissions but also emissions of the six other greenhouse gases cited in the Kyoto Protocol, which were converted into CO2 equivalents. AEB is investing in an internationally recognized and certified climate protection project to offset the emissions calculated for 2019 and formally achieve climate neutrality for 2021 and 2022.