Employees from across Volkswagen Group UK have taken part in this year's annual International Carbon Literacy Action Day. The third annual Carbon Literacy Action Day (CLAD) is The Carbon Literacy Project's first and largest mass training event of its kind, where learners participate in and complete their days' worth of Carbon Literacy training simultaneously, to become certified as Carbon Literate. As part of the training, learners make pledges to reduce their own carbon footprints, using their new understanding of climate change to take action in both their personal and professional lives.
Carbon Literacy training has been running in Volkswagen Group since 2022, with 60 employees now certified as Carbon Literate. The Group has also now tailored an Automotive Carbon Literacy programme for its employees, covering the science and impacts of climate change, actions against climate change, and the automotive industry and climate change; it is looking to increase the number of trained people next year. This activity is in addition to the Group's global 'Project1Hour' which coincides with Earth Day in April, and encourages every employee worldwide to spend one hour taking part in what is considered to be the world's largest corporate climate workshop.
Phil Korbel, Co-Founder and Director of Advocacy at The Carbon Literacy Project, said: 'While world leaders rally around the climate clause in Dubai, we're getting on with the job of mobilising people from all walks of life, all over the world, to play the biggest part they can to minimise damage from the climate crisis. This is no tick-box exercise. Everyone trained on the Carbon Literacy Action Day will come away with actions that they have devised, that maximise their carbon savings, whatever their position or skills. Most of all, we want to inspire the world with what Carbon Literacy does, and invite all organisations and communities to pick up and use these unique tools.'
The Group, which comprises the Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Audi, SEAT, CUPRA, Škoda and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brands, is responsible for almost one in five cars and vans sold in the UK, and around one in four battery electric vehicles.
Volkswagen Group UK has taken some substantial steps to reduce its carbon emissions. In 2023, these include the increased use of HVO fuels, rolling out LED lighting at the Group's parts warehouse in Dordon in the West Midlands, and beginning to electrify the TPS fleet which supplies trade parts centres across the UK. Planning is also under way for 2024, with the scoping and fitment of solar panels on a number of Volkswagen Group sites.
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Carbon Literacy® is relevant climate education for everyone and equates to a day's worth of learning and action on climate change: in other words an awareness of the carbon dioxide costs and impacts of everyday activities, and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions, on an individual, community and organisational basis.
On a global basis, Volkswagen AG was the first major automotive company to commit itself to the aims of the Paris Climate Agreement and has developed a Group-wide decarbonisation programme. It has launched the most comprehensive electrification initiative in the automotive industry and is unreservedly committed to the introduction of e-mobility. The company will have around 50 fully electric models in the market by 2030 – the result of investing around €120 billion in digitalisation and electrification by 2027. Volkswagen Group UK currently offers around 15 electric vehicles in the UK, a number which is set to rise.
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