Paving the way to climate neutrality
Germany aims to achieve a 65 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 on the way to net zero by 2045. This means that private-sector companies must come up with innovative solutions to ensure that the products and services of the future are compatible with a carbon-neutral economy. With the goal of assisting companies in this challenging environment, the Germany Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection has developed various funding programs to increase energy and resource efficiency and help decarbonize the private sector.
Corporate climate strategies
The development of a corporate climate strategy poses numerous complex questions. At ÖKOTEC, we are ready to help you answer such questions.
Senior Consultant
“At ÖKOTEC, I work closely with clients to develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for decarbonizing business processes.”
Our consulting process
As a first step, we run one or more workshops with your team to clarify your objectives, determine the scope of your project, and illuminate associated opportunities and risks. After carefully reviewing your documentation, we work with you to specify project activities and milestones. This project step also involves defining project participants and associated lines of communication.
Working closely with your team, we prepare an inventory of your greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol or ISO 14064 standard. Once the GHG accounting method and boundaries are clear (e.g. cradle-to-gate, scopes 1–3), we then collect primary and secondary data, conducting additional research as needed. This may include gathering data from your suppliers. The end product is a comprehensive corporate carbon footprint calculation that visualizes your emissions and includes a breakdown by scope. As an optional service, we can calculate the emission footprints of your products.
In this step, we work with your team to calculate a reduction and/or neutrality target. To this end, we collect and cluster potential measures while quantifying their cost and abatement potential. We then develop a detailed roadmap, illuminating the specific actions necessary to achieve your goal. Our input draws on over twenty years of experience in implementing energy efficiency projects. Optional add-on services include: the estimation of necessary investment costs using a computer-based multifactor scenario; the development of energy savings solutions that are eligible for government funding; and the optimization of your emissions’ management using our proprietary EnEffCo® software.
At the start of the implementation phase, we conduct one or more planning workshops together with your team. These workshops serve to elaborate specific work packages, timelines, and milestones. This planning takes into account existing management processes and other relevant systems and standards (such as ISO 50001).
Do you require official verification of your GHG inventory and/or emissions abatement targets? We can assist you with the third-party certification process, including the selection of the best methodological approach. Depending on your specific needs, we can also help you with internal and external communication, prepare verification documents for your customers, draft articles for your PR activities, and provide reporting based on recognized standards such as the German Sustainability Code (DNK).
Success story
One of Europe’s largest providers of instant coffee, the CAFEA Group aims to achieve a significant reduction in its carbon footprint by 2030. To achieve this, a sustainability and climate protection strategy has been implemented. Click below to read more about the challenges faced by the CAFEA Group. The article also discusses the solutions ÖKOTEC is developing in collaboration with sustainable natives.
The benefits of working with us
ÖKOTEC is home to a large team of experts with extensive experience in technical as well as organizational topics. We provide you with tools and methods for emission reduction and avoidance that are tailored to your specific needs. We are ready to support you in a variety of ways, from hosting strategy workshops and the development of a company carbon footprint to the calculation of real-time product carbon footprints (CPFs). We also show you how to take advantage of government subsidies. Join the ranks of the many companies who have achieved their energy-efficiency and emission-reduction targets with our expert assistance.
Our quick-check service provides you with a top-level assessment of potentials for cutting emissions.
We develop CO2-neutrality solutions by optimizing existing manufacturing plants and by planning of new facilities.
We help evaluate potential measures by considering all the relevant economic and technical factors.
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Guide
In cooperation with GUTcert and the German Business Initiative for Energy Efficiency (DENEFF), ÖKOTEC is publishing a guide to support companies with management systems on their way to climate neutrality.
Senior Consultant
“Climate protection impacts all areas of a company – and is also a company-wide undertaking.”
Recognizing climate risks, taking advantage of opportunities: The expansion of ISO 50001 to include climate issues strategically strengthens companies. In this interview, Johannes Höpfner and Seyma Evli explain how this change can be achieved and why now is the right point in time.
While many companies are already making progress in recording and reducing their direct and indirect emissions (Scope 1 and Scope 2), Scope 3 emissions still represent a challenge for many companies.
A product carbon footprint (PCF) shows how many greenhouse gas emissions a product is responsible for over its life cycle and the resulting measures for climate protection.
