Hållbarhetsrapport 2020 eng 1
05. OUR ENVIRONMENTAL WORK - ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ACTIVITIES “In recent years, we have actively pursued projects and activities in the areas of energy and waste material recycling. In these areas, we have already managed to significantly improve our environmental performance in a short period of time, but we also see in the long term that we have a great continued potential to improve further”. Conny Hansson, Quality & Sustainability Manager Hedin Group The work to reduce our environmental impact is based on the environmental aspects that have been identified as significant. Reported environmental aspects are linked to the vehicle's various life cycle stages as well as functions and activities required to run our business. Our environmental work is therefore focused on the three stages that we ourselves can influence in practice: Sales of vehicles - Service / Repair with additional work - Support functions and joint activities. Environmentally impacting activities in our operations are mainly linked to energy use, transport and business travel, handling of hazardous waste and waste fractions that are not recycled as well as chemical handling. These activities contribute to increased pollution and thus a negative climate impact. To reduce our environmental impact from these activities, we work preventively with training of our employees together with clear and documented routines in our internal guidelines. Calculations of environmental impact can take place in many different ways. Within the Hedin Bil Group, we have chosen to use the environmental indicator climate impact, which describes the impact of socalled greenhouse gases on the earth's climate in kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalents, kg CO₂-eq. Our focus is currently on the areas described in this sustainability report. 1 = Development of new models 2 = The manufacturing of vehicles 3 = Sale of vehicles 4 = Service / Repair with additional work 5 = Use of vehicles 6 = Dismantling of vehicles 7 = Support functions and joint activities