Climate protection and environmental awareness. Our company is climate neutral!
Climate-neutral company, which means: we have recorded our greenhouse gas emissions, are continuously reducing them and have offset the remaining emissions through climate protection projects.
Our steps in detail.
1. calculate emissions
Together with ClimatePartner, we calculated our CCF - Corporate Carbon Footprint, i.e. the CO₂ footprint of our company. We take into account emission sources such as energy and heating, but also business travel, office supplies and all the emissions we cause as a company.
2. avoid and reduce emissions
Our CCF clearly shows us where we can further reduce CO₂. We update it regularly, so we have an overview of our reduction success and can identify further levers. We are aware that IT consumes a lot of energy. In this respect, gradwerk is aware of its ecological responsibility. In view of this, we only use green electricity from Green Planet Energy in our work, the generation of which does not produce any climate-damaging CO₂.
Our technology partnership with TimmeHosting GmbH & Co KG from Lüneburg and Hostsharing eG from Hamburg also obtain their electricity entirely on the basis of green energy and thus act in the interests of the environment. Furthermore, we optimise all processes to avoid unnecessary paper and practice the paperless office with central and digital document management - this not only saves energy but also other precious resources.
Hardware, ecologically correct
With regard to the use of our hardware, we rely exclusively on renowned brand-name manufacturers who pursue sustainable ecological goals. Therefore, almost without exception, technologies from the company Apple can be found in our company, which are already climate-neutral in terms of the company's worldwide emissions. Moreover, Apple plans to reduce its entire CO₂ balance to zero 20 years earlier than the IPCC targets.
Green Planet Energy
With commercial electricity from Green Planet Energy, we have opted for a secure supply for our business premises and purchase green electricity that has been independently verified by external experts.
Green Planet Energy offers us ecological commercial electricity from wind and water with guaranteed proof of origin and tested quality.
Green Planet Energy's electricity comes 100% from hydropower and wind energy plants in Austria and Germany. No coal, no nuclear power and no biomass is used. Green Planet Energy does not buy on the stock exchange, but directly from its suppliers. They are the only energy supplier in Germany to comply with the strict criteria of the environmental organisation Greenpeace.
We are a climate-neutral digital agency - thanks to the help of ClimatePartner.
We have measured our emissions and also received advice on how we can further reduce and offset them in the future. Thanks to the cooperation with ClimatePartner, we have determined our CO₂ footprint.
We offset our residual emissions with a certified climate protection project and thus achieve our climate neutrality.
Green Planet Energy
With commercial electricity from Green Planet Energy, we have opted for a secure supply for our business premises and purchase green electricity that has been independently verified by external experts.
Green Planet Energy offers us ecological commercial electricity from wind and water with guaranteed proof of origin and tested quality.
Green Planet Energy's electricity comes 100% from hydropower and wind energy plants in Austria and Germany. No coal, no nuclear power and no biomass is used. Green Planet Energy does not buy on the stock exchange, but directly from its suppliers. They are the only energy supplier in Germany to comply with the strict criteria of the environmental organisation Greenpeace.
We are a climate-neutral digital agency - thanks to the help of ClimatePartner.
We have measured our emissions and also received advice on how we can further reduce and offset them in the future. Thanks to the cooperation with ClimatePartner, we have determined our CO₂ footprint.
We offset our residual emissions with a certified climate protection project and thus achieve our climate neutrality.
3. offset emissions
However, there are always emissions left over that we cannot currently avoid. We consistently offset them by supporting a climate protection project from the ClimatePartner portfolio: On more than 97,000 hectares, the project protects the forest in Pará at the mouth of the Brazilian Amazon and avoids commercial deforestation. For the local families, it creates alternative sources of income, e.g. through trade in the açaí fruit. Colombia's largest REDD+ project protects 1,150,200 hectares of rainforest and preserves its biodiversity. It provides education, health care, sanitation, food security and other social services for 16,000 indigenous people.
But because regionality is just as important to us, we also support a project nearby. For every tonne of CO₂ offset there, a sponsorship amount flows to the mountain forest project to help finance the outreach weeks in the Rostock city forest.
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4. create transparency
You can track our climate neutrality in the ClimatePartner ID tracking via our "climate neutral company" label and ID number. In addition to avoiding and reducing greenhouse gases, offsetting is an important step in holistic climate protection. Without offsetting, the goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer achievable - there are simply not yet the necessary technologies to reduce all emissions drastically enough. Investing in climate protection projects also promotes sustainable development in the countries of the global South, so that progress does not have to be based on fossil fuels alone.