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Sustainability improves the quality of our lives, protects our ecosystems, and preserves natural resources for future generations. It is important as a global business, that Alliance Automotive Group support this future for everyone as the consequences of climate change have become more apparent over the years, from rising temperatures to extreme natural disasters.

In December 2015, world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris reached a breakthrough to tackle climate change and its negative impacts by announcing the historic Paris Agreement with a clear and simple goal:

EMISSIONS NEED TO BE CUT BY ROUGHLY 50% BY 2030 TO STAY BELOW 1.5 °C OF GLOBAL WARMING.

In the first half of 2022, all data to calculate Alliance Automotive Group’s carbon footprint was collected. The graph below shows the sources of the footprint and the total footprint of Alliance Automotive Group Europe in 2021.

  • Gas/oil: To heat the buildings
  • Fuel: Used by owned, leased company cars, delivery Vans/Trucks
  • Electricity: For buildings, mainly lighting

Emission Goals 2030 & Initiatives to reduce

Based on our current footprint, Alliance Automotive Group wants to have a clear goal to reduce this by 2030. As a starting point, a top-down proposal was made with initiatives for every country. The potential reductions measures are:

 

What is Alliance Automotive Group already doing?

A lot of initiatives are already in place with the aim to reduce the effect of our carbon footprint across the Alliance Automotive Group countries.

A handful of these actions are:

  • Installing LED, sustainable heating. All new sites will be installed with LED and EV chargers.
  • Pilot with Last Mile (from Alliance Automotive Group store to garage) delivery by Electric Carver
  • Last Mile reductions by reallocating customers and route optimisation
  • Making use of windmill power or other green energy
  • Reducing waste to landfill and increase recycling
  • Initiatives on biodiversity at national DC’s such as Beehives, Bird and Bat houses
  • E-learning on eco-driving and energy use in facilities
  • European tender for EV chargers: EV chargers for own facilities, Next Drive or sold as commodity
  • Back2Car concept – refurbish and sell used car parts

 

GPC

Being part of GPC, we are closely aligned with the Sustainability team in the US. All European calculations on energy usage and CO2 footprint are also reported in the GPC Sustainability report. If you are interested, the report is published on the GPC website https://www.genpt.com/.