Konica Minolta and its customers have offset more than 30,000 tons of CO2 emissions in five years
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe announces that since the introduction of its ‘Enabling Carbon Neutrality’ programme five years ago, the company and its customers from across 16 European countries have, together, already offset more than 30,000 tons of CO2 emissions. This equates to travelling more than 93 million km in an average passenger car – the equivalent to approximately 2,300 trips around the world (along the equator).
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe senior general manager, digital transformation division, Olaf Lorenz commented: “We are delighted with this result. We take our responsibility to reduce our impact on the environment very seriously and it shows that our efforts are paying off. However, offsetting unavoidable CO2 emissions is only the last step. That is why we are focusing primarily on avoiding and reducing energy consumption and substituting CO2-emitting power sources with green energy.”
Konica Minolta’s efforts on this front address ‘Climate Action’, one of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Konica Minolta also has a specific focus on five other SDGs: ‘Responsible Production and Consumption’, ‘Quality Education’, ‘Gender Equality’, ‘Decent Work and Economic Growth’, and ‘Partnerships for the Goals’. The SDGs were developed by the United Nations to have a worldwide holistic strategy to overcome the key global challenges on an environmental and social level.
Konica Minolta is running a number of initiatives to address ‘Climate Action’, including:
- Compensating for unavoidable CO2 emissions
- Substituting CO2-emitting power sources with green energy
- Avoiding and reducing energy consumption
Konica Minolta’s strategic partners are also playing an important role. For example, in the UK Relay Technical Transport has introduced a brand new co-branded Mercedes-Benz tractor unit to its fleet, which runs on HVO (Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil) and is used exclusively for Konica Minolta consignments. This eco-friendly synthetic paraffinic fuel is of very high quality, stable and composed of 100% sustainable raw materials. As an alternative to diesel, it offers a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of up to 90%.
Read more about this in the February issue of Converter, out next month. Sign up to receive your copy