Annual Report 1997/1998 - Munich Re
Annual Report 1997/1998 - Munich Re
Annual Report 1997/1998 - Munich Re
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<strong>Munich</strong> <strong>Re</strong> Topical subjects<br />
Internal environmental<br />
responsibility<br />
A further way in which we inform<br />
clients is our series of briefings<br />
“Environmental Technology –<br />
Information for Insurers”. This<br />
presents advice on such individual<br />
topics as how to design service<br />
stations in order to avoid environmental<br />
damage.<br />
Our business section Agro advises<br />
politicians and insurers on the subject<br />
of crop insurance schemes. These<br />
aim to support locally suitable and<br />
sustainable agricultural production,<br />
not least in climatically difficult parts<br />
of the world.<br />
Our successes in the environmental<br />
field are unspectacular. They are the<br />
cases in which we are able to help<br />
prevent environmental damage occurring<br />
in the first place.<br />
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Internal environmental responsibility<br />
Internally, for example at our <strong>Munich</strong><br />
headquarters, we have also taken a<br />
number of measures aimed at easing<br />
the strain on the environment.<br />
In our office complex, which in the<br />
past 80 years has gradually spread<br />
from our original office building in<br />
Königinstrasse to encompass a total<br />
of ten buildings, we have devoted<br />
considerable space to gardens.<br />
Paved inner courtyards have been<br />
“unsealed”, roof gardens made<br />
and ponds dug. The extensively<br />
greened roof of our new building<br />
on Leopoldstrasse also serves as a<br />
rainwater collector. The water runs<br />
down via drainpipes into a subterranean<br />
storage chamber, from<br />
which it is pumped for watering<br />
the gardens and flushing toilets.
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