"Avoid-Reduce-Compensate"

We are a CLIMATE-NEUTRAL COMPANY and therefore a huge step further on the way to the major target of the climate-neutral economy.

Climate-neutral company, that means:
We have recorded our greenhouse gas emissions, reduce them continuously and have Climate protection projects compensated.

Our steps in detail:

1. Calculating emissions
Together with ClimatePartner, we have calculated our CCF – Corporate Carbon Footprint, i.e. the CO2 footprint of our company. In doing so, we take emission sources, such as energy and heating, into consideration, as well as business trips, office supplies and all emissions that we cause as a company.

2. Avoiding and reducing emissions
Our CCF clearly shows us where we can further reduce CO2. We update it on a regular basis, so that we have an overview of our success in reducing and identifying other parameters.
reduced the unavoidable emissions through measures that we have implemented:

• Switch to green electricity / gas
• Installation of a photovoltaic plant.
• Recycling of thermal energy.
• Lighting with LED technology.
• Efficient systems for generating refrigeration and compressed air.
• Modern building insulation.
• Promotion of electric mobility.

3. offset emissions
However, there are always emissions that we cannot avoid.

In 2021 and 2022, we supported the unavoidable emissions through the following climate protection projects from the ClimatePartner portfolio:

Stemming the plastic tide. (www.climatepartner.com/1087 - Implemented by Plastic Bank worldwide. Technology: marine protection).

Maag supported this project as part of the emissions offsetting programme in 2021.

Money against plastic - this is the approach taken by Plastic Bank. People in Haiti, Indonesia, Brazil and the Philippines collect plastic waste. They can exchange this for money, food, drinking water, mobile phone credit or even school fees at local collection points. The project ensures that less plastic ends up in the sea. Instead, it is recycled and processed into so-called social plastic, which serves as a raw material for new products such as packaging. CO2 is offset via a Gold Standard climate protection project, the wind farm in the Philippines:
www.climatepartner.com/1091 or our wind power project in Aruba: www.climatepartner.com/1040. For every tonne of CO2 offset, 10 kg of plastic waste is collected.

As a manufacturer of plastic packaging, we are committed to conserving valuable resources and recycling plastic packaging. We want to prevent littering and are therefore enthusiastic about this project and support it wholeheartedly.

In doing so, we are also helping to achieve the global Sustainable Development Goals, such as combating poverty and improving living conditions in emerging and developing countries.

Wind energy north-east Brazil Project ID 1138

Maag supported this project as part of the emissions offsetting programme in 2022.

This project comprises the construction and operation of 14 wind farms in north-east Brazil. The renewable electricity supplied by the project to the Brazilian power grid makes an important contribution to environmental sustainability. CO2 emissions are reduced, as without this project, electricity generation would be based on fossil fuels.

We are not currently supporting any projects, but are focussing entirely on further measures to reduce emissions locally