Volkswagen : is pursuing the goal of becoming balance sheet CO₂-neutral by 2050. We show what the Group is doing to avoid and offset carbon dioxide on the road to a green zero. ...

Take Wolfsburg, for example: at its production site in Lower Saxony, the Volkswagen Group is leading the way in phasing out coal. The two power stations will be completely converted from coal to natural gas for around 400 million euros. With a 33 percent increase in energy efficiency, the CO₂ emissions of the two power plants will be reduced by around 1.5 million tons per year.

This corresponds to the annual CO₂ emissions of currently approx. 870,000 vehicles and is a decrease of almost 60 percent compared to the previous emissions of the power plants at the Wolfsburg location. The modernization will reduce the CO₂ emissions of Volkswagen AG's production sites (Brunswick, Emden, Hanover, Kassel, Salzgitter, Wolfsburg) by around 50 percent and for the Group's production sites worldwide by around 15 percent. Water consumption, waste generation and other emissions will also be drastically reduced - by an average of around 50 percent. By 2025, the CO₂ emissions of all plants are to be reduced by half compared with 2010. Audi's production facilities in Brussels, for example, are already completely CO₂-neutral.