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Environment
Environmental management
in the Volkswagen group
By 2018, the Volkswagen group also intends to be
the number one in the automotive industry in eco-
logical terms. To reach this goal, the Volkswagen
group must first make production in its plants
around the world more environmentally friendly.
Volkswagen aims to reduce energy and water
consumption, emissions and waste at all of the
group’s sites by 25 percent compared with 2010.
Second, the Volkswagen group intends to make its
products more environmentally friendly. Thus, the
Volkswagen group plans to reduce the CO2 emis-
sions of the European new vehicle fleet by 30
percent compared with 2006 by 2015. Every new
model generation is designed to be 10 percent to
15 percent more efficient than its immediate pre-
decessor. The group environmental policy and
group-wide environmental management are the
foundation for reaching these goals.
Environmental management ensures that the
ecological aspects of sustainability in product
development and in production are taken into ac-
count at all locations. The main pillars are the
group’s globally applicable environmental principles
for products and production. Since 2010, these
efforts have been supported by a group-wide energy
management system.
Since 1995, Volkswagen’s German locations
have voluntarily participated in the EU’s Eco-
Management and Audit Scheme as well as world-
wide in the environmental certification process under
international standard EN ISO 14001. Since 1996,
this standard has also applied to the environmental
management system used by Volkswagen’s Tech-
nical Development function, which has additionally
been certified in accordance with DIN ISO/TR
14062 since 2009. By means of recertifications
and external validations, the Volkswagen group also
confirmed its role as a trailblazer in the reporting
period.
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