As a company, we’re committed to playing our part in supporting not only our local community through pledge 1% but supporting our planet through our climate positive workforce. We’re passionate about ensuring our company is 100% climate positive by working with companies such as Ecologi. 



This is the bare minimum we can do as a business as our planet is fast approaching a global disaster and we are always looking for ways to contribute to reducing carbon emissions through different initiatives.

This is just the start, and we’d welcome you to join us and make your own climate commitment. 

Make sure that:
- you have a company-wide recovery and recycling program that includes: paper, cardboard, plastic, glass, metal, and composting
- you recycle waste not only from the kitchen but also all papers in your working spaces, cartons at your warehouse, etc.
- your utility service works with all types of waste after you separate it, so it goes into the correct waste sorting centers.

Ensure proper waste separation

What you can do to print less:
- implement electronic signature systems where possible
- instead of printing reports before business meetings, use more screens in meeting rooms
- decrease the amount of pages by reducing font or page border sizes of regularly printed documents: contracts, agreements, etc.
- add a reminder to print less in your corporate signatures
- as a default setting, double-sided printing in black and white is recommended.

Plus, you can recycle your printer cartridges using a free recycling box from [Caritas](https://www.caritas.de/spendeundengagement/andershelfen/caritasbox/caritasboxstartseite). 

Adopt a sustainable printing policy

Mark this action as completed if you will buy office supplies made from recycled materials, produced and delivered in an eco-friendly way from now on. 

Recycled paper is 100% made from used paper, saving resources and water. Although the recycled paper is no longer pure white, it is also free of peroxides, sodium carbonate, and sodium hydroxide. These chemicals are used both in the production of fresh fibre paper and for bleaching paper. Recycled paper has two to three times lower energy consumption during production. 

At [Memo](http://www.memo.de), [EarthHero](https://earthhero.com/product-category/home/office-supplies/), or [GreenPicks](https://www.greenpicks.de/en/office-supplies-stationery/) you can find all of your sustainable office supplies.

Use eco-friendly office supplies

One of the projects where you can find cleaning products and soap without microplastic: [Zero Waste Era](https://www.zerowasteera.com)

Mark this action as completed if you will buy only eco-friendly cleaning products and soap for your office from now on. 

Use eco-friendly cleaning products

Our aim here is to minimize the delivery footprint and support local businesses.
Only purchase food and drinks with verified environmental standards. 


 Buy local, organic and seasonal food and drinks

These purchases can influence your carbon footprint significantly. 
- implement a repair-first policy: it's better to fix a laptop than buy a new one
- regularly calculate and check the footprint created by your equipment purchases (some companies, such as [Apple](https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/notebooks/13-inch_MacBookPro_PER_may2019.pdf) and [Dell](https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/CorpComm_Docs/en/carbon-footprint-latitude-7490.pdf), share data about their products’ footprint on their websites)
- when you need to buy things for your new office, don't just pay attention to them being made of ‘natural’ materials, but also to their production footprint
- utilize old and broken equipment in specially designated places.

Ensure responsible use of office equipment

Here are some ideas on how to make your marketing materials more eco-friendly:
- at conferences, fairs, and festivals, consider digital ways to interact with potential customers: screens, VR & AR, QR-codes, projections, e-business cards, and catalogs, etc.
- if you do choose to produce some giveaways, opt for materials with less of an end-of-life process
- order production locally to avoid causing additional emissions through deliveries
- improve your planning process to minimize waste after events.

Minimize giveaways of t-shirts, flyers, and stickers

What you can do:
- encourage your colleagues to order food delivery less: organize lunch in your office, subsidize lunch in the nearest cafes, or arrange food delivery in reusable containers,
- make sure you use glasses in your office and wash them instead of one-use plastic cups,
- buy beverages in returnable glass bottles,
- buy office snacks in bigger packages with less plastic.

Reduce plastic waste

Install low-flow faucets, toilets, and urinals in your office. 
Low-flow should meet or exceed the following EPA WaterSense standards: faucets use a maximum of [1.5 gpm](http://www.epa.gov/WaterSense/products/bathroom_sink_faucets.html), toilets - [max 1.28 gallons per flush](http://www.epa.gov/WaterSense/products/toilets.html).


Conserve water

Make your office more sustainable

There are many established as well as new banks that offer similar services to their traditional competitors, except for one important difference: They invest your money according to high sustainability standards.

Assess your current bank's credentials

Decide on your approach

Your corporate finance can influence the climate more than you think. Use this power:
- Look at how the company capital is secured, such as where it gets its project financing and loans. Where possible, move this business to [banks](https://www.triodos.co.uk/about-us) that refuse to invest in businesses dependent on fossil fuels.
- Talk to your accountants. They can help set up systems to measure and manage climate related externalities. They can support your finance team in raising and allocating the funds your organization needs for transition and adaptation, embedding greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions within your organization’s decision-making processes, and accurately tracking and reporting performance against reduction targets. 
- If your company operates in the financial sector, ensure your financial investments support [low carbon initiatives](http://fossilfreefunds.org).

Change your bank

Apply pressure on your current bank

Share with your stakeholders

Join public campaigns

Influence your partners and suppliers

Switch to a sustainable bank 

Find a green hosting service

Get the Green Web Foundation label

Get certified

Select a provider that operates on actual renewable energy rather than renewable energy credits

Host your website with a provider that uses 100% renewable energy

Customize your microsite

Add the badge to your website and link to the microsite

Implement our “We Take Climate Action” badge and microsite

Evaluate the landscape and decide if you want to switch to a different provider or region

Minimize the carbon emissions generated from your cloud computing

WeEngage Group

Transforming investment approaches from environmentallly harmful activities into sustainable projects can have a big impact in transforming our economy.

Screen the landscape to find the right fund for your company

Set up pensions with environmentally responsible providers and provide employees with the choice to switch to these providers. Look into funds that directly put part of their investments into impact investment projects that will deliver returns and social impact over the long-term.

Offer eco-responsible pensions for your employees

Offer sustainable pension to employees

Have an internal conversation about the causes you wish to support 

Set aside a budget 

Find a provider

Prioritise nature-based solutions

Ensure projects do not have adverse effects

Prioritise projects with an immediate effect

Ensure environmental and social safeguards

Contribute to global adaptation

Ensure robustness

Purchase credits

Keep a net positive mentality 

Report on progress

Compensate for your emissions to help society reach net zero faster

Collect benefits to convince others

Understand the end goal

Create internal awareness

Organise a workshop with relevant stakeholders

Use our planning workshop template

Conduct peer analysis

Discuss plans with key departments

Remember about stakeholders

Set up a steering committee

Decide on internal reporting

Share far and wide

Run our planning workshop

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