Energy efficiency and environmental care :
Innovation for climate protection
Climate change represents one of humanity's greatest challenges. To counteract global warming and guarantee economic growth and prosperity in the future, energy must be generated and utilized in an environmentally and climate friendly way. Technological innovations play a key role in increasing the efficiency of power generation, transmission, and consumption and avoiding greenhouse gas emissions.
The good news is that many of these solutions are already available. In many cases, they can save so much energy that they pay for themselves. They just have to be implemented.
Siemens Answers
Siemens makes a substantial contribution to environmental protection with its energy-efficient products and solutions and its renewable energy and environmental technologies. Products and solutions installed by Siemens for its customers between 2002 and 2007 that are still in use today reduce CO2 emissions by 114 million metric tons per year. The volume of carbon dioxide emissions saved through the use of Siemens products is more than 20 times higher than Siemens' own emissions .
Siemens has also set itself a target of reducing its own carbon dioxide emissions by 20 percent (in relation to revenue) by the year 2011 compared with 2006 figures. In addition, Siemens is involved in various climate protection initiatives around the world. It is a member of the "Business for Climate Protection" initiative sponsored by the Federation of German Industries (BDI) as well as the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, and the Clinton Climate Initiative, to name just a few. purpose
