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Solar Impulse and Deutsche Bank – Inventing the Future

Deutsche Bank AG

With the Solar Impulse project, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, both natives of Switzerland, plan to achieve one of the great pioneering feats of the 21st century with the support of Deutsche Bank: the first flight around the world in a manned solar airplane. Their aim is to demonstrate the potential of regenerative energies – and revolutionize how they are used. more[...]

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Being an Avatar for a Sustainable World

Editorial Team

Climate change has become by far the most important environmental issue and will take an increasingly prominent position within the policy discussions in Sweden, the European Union, and the rest of the world in the coming years and decades. In 2009 Folksam launched a project focusing on the energy industry to help lead the way toward a sustainable society. more[...] login_required

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Being an Avatar for a Sustainable World

Carina Lundberg Markow, Folksam
Folksam

Climate change has become by far the most important environmental issue and will take an increasingly prominent position within the policy discussions in Sweden, the European Union, and the rest of the world in the coming years and decades. more[...]

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Climate Protection at Deutsche Bank

Prof. Hanns Michael Hölz

Companies need to act sustainably to maintain the trust of the societies in which they operate. Climate protection has an important role to play here. Deutsche Bank is active in the following areas: financial intermediary, environmental efficiency manager and climate ambassador. more[...]

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Global Warming and Risk Management

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Our project focuses on the efforts we´ve been making to improve the capacity to monitor, measure and minimize the impacts of our distribution fleet. Trough the joint work of the Departments of Logistics, Sales and Finance and the Committee on Business Sustainability, in 2009 we were able to conduct the first monitoring of reseller´s fleet, which includes more than 4.000 vehicles. Besides, we´ve been working to enhance the control over the sub-contracted transportation companies that also distribute Copagaz´s products. Among the benefits, we can highlight the internal awareness about climate change and its relation to business and risk management. more[...] login_required

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Global Warming and Risk Management

Elizete Neto Tavares Paes, Copagaz
José Pascowitch, Copagaz

Recognizing that climate change has become a worldwide challenge, Copagaz made this a priority. A signatory of the UN Global Compact since 2003, in 2008 Copagaz became a member of the Caring for Climate initiative. more[...]

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Environment Preservation in the Amazon

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Bradesco endeavors to incorporate sustainability into each one of its business activities and corporate strategies. We do believe in a better world for both current and future generations. Considering that socio-environmental investment is one of the pillars of our sustainability core, we support many initiatives regarding that matter in Brazil, through partnerships directed at the preservation of forest environment. more[...] login_required

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Environment Preservation in the Amazon

Eduardo Dantas, Bradesco
Banco Bradesco S.A.

Bradesco endeavors to incorporate sustainability into each one of its business activities and corporate strategies. We do believe in a better world for both current and future generations. Considering that socio-environmental investment is one of the pillars of our sustainability core, we support many initiatives regarding that matter in Brazil. more[...]

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Green Technology: Solutions for Climate Change

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The Bosch Group is facing the challenge of the climate change. Considering the eminent importance and vast implications of the topic, as an individual or as a single company one might falter faced with such a challenge. At Bosch, however, we are convinced that innovative technology – already in place or yet to be developed – has considerable potential in creating and finding solutions. more[...]

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Green Technology: Solutions for Climate Change

Bosch Group

The Bosch Group is facing the challenge of the climate change. Considering the eminent importance and vast implications of the topic, as an individual or as a single company one might falter faced with such a challenge. At Bosch, however, we are convinced that innovative technology – already in place or yet to be developed – has considerable potential in creating and finding solutions. more[...]

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Implementing Solutions to Optimize Energy Consumption and Fight Climate Change

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In line with Italian and EU energy and environment objectives, Autostrade per l'Italia has boosted initiatives and projects promoting the use of renewable sources for the production of electricity and improvement of energy efficiency in its buildings and infrastructure. more[...] login_required

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Implementing Solutions to Optimize Energy Consumption and Fight Climate Change

Simonetta Giordani, Autostrade per l’Italia

utostrade per l'Italia –100 percent owned by shareholder Atlantia S.p.A., which is responsible for investments and strategies in the transport and communications infrastructure and networks sector – is the leading European concessionaire for toll motorway management and more[...]

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R&D driving the sustainable future of energy

Eric Brandsma, E.ON
E.ON AG

The world of energy is currently facing its potentially greatest challenge since the invention of electricity. This is being fuelled by three fundamental development trends. Firstly, demand for energy is continuing to increase. The IEA estimates that there will be about a 50 percent increase in demand for primary energy worldwide by 2030. This will require massive investments in energy generation. Secondly, climate change and the real threats it involves demand unrelenting action in support of global climate protection. Thirdly, the fact that fossil resources are not unlimited means that energy has to be treated even more responsibly. more[...] login_required

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A Nationwide charging network for electric vehicles in Denmark

Anders Lyngtorp, Dong Energy
Ørsted A/S

Our modern lifestyles offer a wealth of exciting possibilities, but also go hand in hand with high energy consumption. Because of the carbon footprint that our energy consumption leaves behind, there is no longer any reason to doubt that our lifestyles affect the climate. Each and every one of us, including DONG Energy, is responsible for minimizing our energy consumption and maximizing our consideration for the environment. As an energy company, we have a special responsibility for producing energy in as environmentally friendly a manner as possible. more[...] login_required

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A Nationwide charging network for electric vehicles in Denmark

Anders Lyngtorp, Dong Energy
Ørsted A/S

Our modern lifestyles offer a wealth of exciting possibilities, but also go hand in hand with high energy consumption. Because of the carbon footprint that our energy consumption leaves behind, there is no longer any reason to doubt that our lifestyles affect the climate. Each and every one of us, including DONG Energy, is responsible for minimizing our energy consumption and maximizing our consideration for the environment. As an energy company, we have a special responsibility for producing energy in as environmentally friendly a manner as possible. more[...]

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