Climate-neutral

With the Paris Climate Agreement, the international community has committed itself to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Vaillant Group is making a contribution to this as a company.

Within the framework of the SEEDS sustainability programme, we set ourselves concrete climate targets. We want to achieve these by 2030. The CO₂ emissions (Scope 1 and 2) directly attributable to the company are to be gradually reduced by 50 percent.

We balance according to the internationally recognised standard of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Our goals are based on the so-called “Science Based Targets”.

We use scientific methodology to determine how much and in what time we need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to contribute to the 1.5 degree target.

A valid data base tells us which activities generate how much greenhouse gas. Once a year, Sustainability Management calculates the Vaillant Group’s complete carbon footprint.

A major lever with which we achieve CO₂ savings is the use of electricity from renewable energy sources. With green electricity, especially for the production sites, up to 18,000 tonnes of CO₂ can be avoided annually.

Another lever is the vehicle fleet. By 2030, emissions caused by company vehicles are to be significantly reduced: through more economical vehicles and – where possible – through electric cars.

The third lever is to reduce energy consumption in our production processes and buildings. Efficiency measures are intended to substantially decrease the Vaillant Group’s gas consumption and the associated CO₂ emissions.

In addition to the emissions that arise in the Vaillant Group’s direct area of responsibility (Scope 1 and 2), there are emissions that are caused in the upstream or downstream value chain (Scope 3). These include emissions from purchased goods and services as well as those caused by transport, business trips or our employees’ commutes on their way to work. We share the responsibility for these emissions with suppliers, customers and employees because we cannot influence them alone.

Emissions are often produced during the operation of a heating system, depending on the energy source and individual heating habits. Replacing outdated heating technology makes a lasting contribution to climate protection. To help our customers save as much energy and CO2 emissions as possible, we are gearing our product portfolio towards environmentally friendly heat pumps and highly efficient gas heating appliances.

Forests are able to bind CO₂. Part of the Vaillant Group’s climate strategy is therefore to completely offset emissions that cannot initially be avoided through afforestation projects. This makes the Vaillant Group climate-neutral in its own operations since 2020 (Scope 1 and 2)

The Vaillant Group is a partner in a new landscape and afforestation project in Peru. Until these forest areas completely offset the remaining emissions, the Vaillant Group acquires CO₂ certificates from an existing, gold-standard certified afforestation project in Panama. The newly planted forests will gradually replace the acquired CO₂ certificates.