Climate Change Policy

Rather than remaining passive in the face of rising demands from the world around us, NEAS wishes to exercise leadership within the Climate Change area, promote the reduction of carbon emissions and promote the establishment of more renewable energy sources. NEAS has a unique market-leading position in trading carbon credits and wind power alike. NEAS aims to be carbon neutral and to work to minimize the company’s energy consumption and own carbon emissions. We intend to offer our customers effective climate change solutions that result in genuine reductions of carbon emissions and development of renewable energy.

NEAS intends to be a leading advisor and supplier of companies’ voluntary carbon investments, including carbon management, energy efficiency measures, investments in renewable energy, Green Power, CDM/JI project development and the purchase of quotas, credits and certificates. NEAS intends to offer consumers Green Energy, including power from Danish wind turbines, carbon emissions reductions, investments in renewable energy and the possibility of supporting carbon emissions reducing projects that live up to authorized standards. NEAS intends to use information, marketing and PR campaigns to heighten our stakeholders’ knowledge and awareness of climate responsibility.

A Code of Conduct which conforms to the Global Compact has been drafted for NEAS’s investments in CDM and JI projects. Our Code of Conduct specifies NEAS’s ­requirements and principles for determining which carbon projects we will take part in and a procedure for controlling project implementation. We seek maximum certainty that no CDM or JI project will compromise our CSR Policy or Climate Change Policy and through careful project development we ­create certainty that the reductions generated by the projects are approved by the UN. Furthermore, NEAS does not invest in large hydroelectric or industrial gas destruction projects, due to doubts over their environmental integrity.

Each year, NEAS will prepare carbon footprint ­analyses of our own carbon emissions and an annual climate change strategy for reducing both our carbon emissions and our consumption of energy. A Climate Change Strategy, with ­objectives, will be laid down each year.


NEAS aims to be carbon neutral. Our primary priority is to reduce our carbon emissions by increasing our energy efficiency and other internal changes, while our secondary priority is to offset the volume of CO₂ emitted via UN carbon credits or from other similar projects.
 

Each year NEAS will report on the following climate issues:

  • Carbon footprint and carbon credit accounting
  • The progress and results of climate change-related activities
  • Climate change policy and strategy
  • Climate change-related activities


Together with the Board of Directors, the CSR and Climate Change Committee is responsible for implementing and executing NEAS’s CSR and climate change objectives.

Communication on progress 2010

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