In concrete terms, this means that Brangs + Heinrich participates in national and international climate protection projects to help offset climate-relevant emissions.
We obtain annual certification from ClimatePartner to determine our CO₂ emissions, identify avoidable consumption and contribute to offsetting unavoidable emissions.
We achieve this by participating in national and international climate protection projects.
This contribution demonstrates our commitment to climate protection and emphasises our commitment to sustainability. We have been a ClimatePartner-certified company since August 2021.
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Together with ClimatePartner, we have calculated our company's carbon footprint. The calculation is based on the leading standards of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and the international standards of ISO. Our footprint includes all emissions from Scope 1 and 2 as well as most of those from Scope 3. You can find out more below.
In addition to the level of CO₂ emissions, our CCF shows us where they are mainly generated and where we can avoid or reduce emissions. To do this, we define reduction targets and derive reduction measures from these.
We have introduced and continuously implement reduction measures in line with our reduction targets. We also update our CCF annually. This allows us to maintain an overview of our success in reducing emissions and recognise further levers.
However, there are always remaining emissions that we are currently unable to avoid. We take responsibility for these emissions by financially supporting an internationally certified climate protection project from the ClimatePartner portfolio.
You can track our certification transparently via the ClimatePartner-certified label and the associated Climate ID website. There you can find out, for example, which category is certified, which CO₂ emissions we take into account, which targets we are committed to, which reduction measures we implement and more about the climate protection projects we finance.
The carbon footprint refers to the total emissions of greenhouse gases caused by a company, a private individual, a product or a service.
A product carbon footprint always refers to the life cycle of a product. The functional unit describes what exactly is being analysed. The system boundaries indicate which life cycle phases and processes are taken into account in the product carbon footprint.
The emissions are calculated over a defined period of time – usually one year or the duration of an event or the service life of a product. They serve as an assessment basis for defining and implementing reduction measures. These emissions are also used to calculate the contribution to offsetting. Emissions that are considered unavoidable are to be offset. The climate protection projects must be internationally recognised.
We calculate the carbon footprint of our company and our products in accordance with the GHG Protocol through the ClimatePartner organisation.
The GHG Protocol is an internationally recognised standard for the accounting of corporate emissions. It was developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
Greenhouse gas emissions are categorised into three scopes:
To offset our CO₂ emissions, we support a recognised and certified climate protection project: For more green energy in Africa
The African continent faces many social, economic, health and environmental challenges. The transition to an energy system based on renewable sources such as wind, solar and hydropower is the key to sustainable development. This can mitigate the effects of climate change and give everyone access to clean and affordable energy.
Africa’s energy demand could double in the next ten years and the current grid is mainly fuelled by emission-intensive energy sources such as coal. ‘We need to end the ‘addiction to fossil fuels’, as UN Secretary-General Guterres puts it, ’to significantly reduce CO₂ emissions, especially in the energy sector.’ It is therefore crucial to promote the expansion of sustainable energy.
Projects for more green energy on the African continent can help to end energy poverty, stabilise the grids and reduce energy dependency. Brangs + Heinrich supports this endeavour with the ClimatePartner certification and the project For more green energy in Africa
