Planet under Pressure

of 2020, 100 percent carbon neutrality
will have been achieved, and Bosch’s
worldwide development, manufacturing,
and administration activities will no
longer leave a carbon footprint.
To make this a reality, the company is
investing in energy efficiency, increasing
the proportion of renewables in its
energy supply, buying more green power,
and offsetting unavoidable carbon emissions.
Bosch is also making progress in
improving the quality of its measures to
maintain carbon neutrality until 2030.
For instance, the share of carbon offsets
in 2020 will be significantly lower than
planned – just 25 percent.
holistic supply chain network design
is intended to strengthen the regional
procurement and production of goods
and avoid air transport. In addition, by
increasingly combining freight, Bosch
wants to reduce transport and optimize
routes and capacity utilization. Product
design geared to energy efficiency
is already contributing to the reduction
of emissions with regard to how
products sold are used. In 2020, Bosch
wants to identify additional potential
for further reducing the CO 2
emissions
of its products. On top of that, Bosch
has already decided on a measure for
the category of associates’ transport:
Starting in 2020, Bosch will make air
travel of all associates carbon neutral
by using carbon offsets. The costs will
be included directly in the airfare.
Torsten Kallweit and Annette Wagner lead the
Bosch Group’s corporate EHS and sustainability
departments. Torsten Kallweit is also CTO of
the newly established Bosch Climate Solutions.
For more information, please visit:
sustainability.bosch.com
Climate action along the value chain
To ensure its own efforts have a multiplier
effect on the economy, Bosch
also set a target for reducing its Scope 3
emissions – which means tackling emissions
in the upstream and downstream
activities along the value chain.
Upstream emissions in the Bosch value
chain concern categories such as purchased
goods and services, logistics, associates’
commutes, and business trips.
Downstream emissions are mainly
caused by the use and disposal of products.
To calculate the carbon footprint,
Bosch has analyzed all Scope 3 categories
of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and
focused on those that account for the
largest share of CO 2
emissions. These
are purchased goods, logistics, and the
use of products sold. In order to live up
to self-imposed standards, Bosch wants
to reduce CO 2
emissions by at least
15 percent by 2030, or more than 50
million metric tons per year. To this end,
Bosch has agreed on a target with the
Science Based Targets initiative, making
Bosch the first automotive supplier to
commit to a measurable target.
To achieve this, Bosch will identify
the supplier groups creating the largest
volumes of CO 2
emissions in order
to work with them on mitigation
measures. In the field of logistics, a
Bosch intends to increase own power generation
from renewable sources of energy such as
photovoltaics and wind to 0.4 TWh in 2030.
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS FOR THE ECONOMY
To make its experience available to other companies and to help them progress
toward carbon neutrality, Bosch pools the knowledge of nearly 1,000 Bosch
experts worldwide and offers access to the results of more than 1,000 energyefficiency
projects of its own in a new advisory company called Bosch Climate
Solutions. The newly established operating unit develops tailored solutions for
customers and shows how to strike the right balance between economic and
ecological considerations. “We want to make our experience available to other
companies, to help them progress to carbon neutrality,” says Dr. Volkmar Denner,
Chairman of the Board of Management of Robert Bosch GmbH. In doing so, Bosch
enables companies to develop their own climate protection plan: from the
analysis of the carbon footprint to the concept and throughout the implementation
of a dedicated reduction plan.
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