Aliging Profit with Purpose - Global Goals Yearbook 2019

MAN CUTS ITS PLANTS’ CO 2
EMISSIONS BY MORE THAN
A QUARTER
Produce more while consuming fewer resources at the same time? This is how a sustainable
economy works. The commercial vehicle manufacturer MAN shows how a company can achieve
both growth and ecological goals through consistent climate management.
By Peter Attin, MAN
MAN has reduced the CO 2
emissions of
its production sites by more than onequarter.
The sites emitted around 26
percent less CO 2
in 2018 than in the base
year of 2008. This means that MAN has
reached its goal two years earlier than
originally planned.
At the same time, economic development
in fiscal year 2018 was very positive:
MAN Truck & Bus production and sales
in Europe rose by 10.3 percent to more
than 95,000 vehicles produced. MAN
Latin America grew even more sharply:
32.7 percent. This corresponds to more
than 35,000 vehicles being produced.
Absolute emissions Group-wide were also
reduced – to 406,000 metric tons. This
corresponds to a reduction of 141,374
metric tons of CO 2
equivalent within 10
years. This means that MAN has reached
its goal two years earlier than planned:
In fact, the MAN Climate Strategy, which
was adopted back in 2011, provided for
a 25 percent reduction by 2020, and not
any earlier.
“This is a huge success that our project
team has driven forward with exceptional
commitment across the board – and
we are proud of it. As an industrial player,
we have a responsibility to protect the
environment and combat climate change.
We fulfill this responsibility with the
help of targeted measures as part of our
Climate Strategy,” says Michael Kobriger,
Executive Board member for Production
and Logistics at MAN Truck & Bus.
Smart package of measures
To do this, the company focused on a
systematic approach. As well as producing
energy within its own plants and
In terms of the UN Sustainable Development
Goals, it is crucial that growth
remains positive because it creates jobs
and prosperity. At the same time, however,
it is also important to decouple
resource consumption from the emission
of dangerous greenhouse gases. MAN’s
latest sustainability report shows that
the Munich-based commercial vehicle
manufacturer is on the right track here:
Overall, energy consumption rose only
slightly (2.2 percent) compared with
productivity. Therefore, greenhouse gas
emissions produced per vehicle fell by
17.2 percent.
First climate-neutral production plant in Pinetown, South Africa
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