The organization ConClimate supports and advises us in our sustainability process with an inventory in the area of CO₂. We have now determined the results for the past year. In doing so, we have determined the following:
„Purchased goods and services“ are the largest item in 2022 with 179.1 t CO₂‑e , which can be explained by the sharp increase in the number of events.
Another major CO₂ driver for AXICA is the use of district heating.
While district heating still accounted for 49.5% in 2021, the percentage has dropped to 28% in 2022. This is partly due to the targeted reduction in district heating consumption (from 146 t CO₂‑e to 104.3 t CO₂‑e), but mainly due to busier business operations because purchasing, and therefore the goods and services purchased, increased sharply after the pandemic.
The amount of events requires a high amount of food used for production. Basically, we are committed to using food that is as regional, seasonal and organic as possible. In addition, we are gradually converting most of AXICA’s offerings and products to vegetarian and vegan meals. In this way, we are significantly reducing the food footprint despite high purchasing volumes. And the best thing is: we don’t have to do much to convince our customers – they are pulling in the same direction with us!
We have also realized that a great tasting product does not depend on the perfect external texture. Thus, we incorporate „crooked vegetables“ into our daily business to also do justice to the value chain of a food product and to counteract food waste.
Overall, therefore, the emissions of Operations (excluding catering) continue to decline and this, despite an increased number of events compared to the previous year. What’s more, despite significantly more food purchased, total emissions per kg of food were reduced.
Of course, we are far from satisfied with this good result and will continue to do our utmost to reduce our CO₂ footprint in the future. For the currently still unavoidable CO₂ emissions, we have found a climate project to offset our emissions through the contact of ConClimate and support the climate project „Clean Drinking Water in Kasungu/Malawi“ (Gold Standard).
More information about CO₂ offsetting and the project can be found here.
