More Volvo subsidiaries have joined environmental group WWF’s climate programme, pledging to reduce CO2 emissions by 30 million tonnes from construction equipment, buses and trucks through 2014.
Volvo Construction Equipment and Volvo Buses have expanded the Volvo Group’s cooperation with WWF’s Climate Savers program.
“By expanding the partnership with WWF to include our buses and construction equipment, the Volvo Group will demonstrate that it is serious about continuously raising our targets in terms of reducing carbon-dioxide emissions from our products, by complying with our vision for sustainable and carbon-neutral future transportation,” said Volvo’s CEO Olof Persson.
The Volvo Group became the world’s first auto manufacturer to join WWF Climate Savers in November 2010 with a commitment to reduce the lifetime CO2 emissions of its trucks sold from 2009 to 2014 by 13 million tonnes compared to 2008 models.
Thanks to improved fuel efficiency, the goal has now been increased to 30 million tonnes, and will include the company’s buses and construction equipment. Thirty million tonnes is the same amount of carbon dioxide emitted by Sweden in its entirety in seven months.
Volvo’s joint-venture company, SDLG, will also become the first leading Chinese construction equipment company to be a member of Climate Savers family.
“Emissions in the transport sector have a major impact on the climate and must be met with vigorous initiatives. It is therefore very encouraging that the Volvo Group now wants to broaden their cooperation with WWF by expanding to new business areas” said Håkan Wirtén, Secretary General of WWF Sweden.
