The Bigger Picture: Sustainability @ Audi | Trailer
The two key drivers of our future is science on the one hand and technology that delivers solution we adapt the pH value of the water and then the water runs into our big storage tanks we are here in September and it’s uh 31° that something changing everyone has to rethink how to
Work how to design the parts for our new generation of cars the heart of it is the battery the whole construction is a flying construction what you can experience now is our premium platform electric oh wow this is a hell of a ride I love this
Car we have to fight every day we have to improve whe live diversity is actually one of the core principles that we have within the Audi Group hello my name is Sebastian copin I’m a polar Explorer photographer specialist of the ice and the polar regions and right now I’m combining those disciplines on a research expedition to Northern Greenland just a few hundred kilometers from the North Pole and every time I come back to places like this in the
Arctic or Antarctica I see the collateral and remote impact of human activities this is Ground Zero for climate change affecting the biodiversity the cultures and melting the ice faster than ever so what can be done about it our photovoltaic project actually is one of the biggest photovoltaic rooftop
Power plant in Europe and it lays on 160,000 square m which is quite a huge area but I think what we should focus on is how much time do you really spend to reach your target so it’s not only about range it’s also about charging performance in this series on
Environmental social and governance ESG for short will’ll take a deep dive into what could be a game Cher so here we stand on the ground of an old Refinery we washed more than 600,000 tons of soil here with a big washing machine can a car maker be
Sustainable yeah we get the waste water from the process from Audi also from the paint shop from Audi and we can clean it and then create a circle and give it back but the main question of the project is how to plan future Forest to bind as much carbon as possible Audi
Wants to steadily increase the amount of secondary materials over the coming years in the ODI Fleet and we think in Circus so we are using geothermal energy for heating purposes yearly 90,000 Mega hours per year we work with more than 14,000 direct suppliers in more than 60
Countries they have a huge potential if all of them work more sustainably we can achieve a lot more good for people and the environment so what are esgs and why is this trend taking the world over why has Audi made this a core guiding principle and corporate priority
Biodiversity as you can here is an important pillar of our environmental strategy Mission zero without biodiversity there’s no life on Earth this is where all the energy is right so when you talk about CO2 emissions or diversity and inclusion for those people you can still say well listen things are changing out
There well I think you have a second career there the Audi environmental Foundation as you may know is a subsidiary from Audi since 2009 we can no longer sit back and watch this unfold we must act educate and inform the water circles from here from the robots up to the
Rooftop where we cool it down in this hybrid cooling towers I’d like to invite you to join me as I go behind the scenes and speak with experts about decarbonization we economize water in our production that’s why we use this beautiful technology here from the membrane bioreactor do it
Really technology for the environment that’s good electrification for example use phase the main hotspot of CO2 missions is what is the energy that you’re charging your vehicle with we’re really utilizing used car batteries from our internal testing Fleet taking them out of the cars and then we’re reassembling them here into
One big battery storage system circularity through the three main pillars reduce reuse and recycle data topics uh we at AUD we have a very robust data protection compliance system in place human rights and people in alignment with the corporate values we are committed to the respect for human
Rights now using and working with suppliers means that we have to set expectations and we have to take responsibility in order to ensure that the risks are actually mitigated or a it diversity for one thing is about bringing different perspectives into the company inclusion is about welcoming that
Diversity I think that humans need to help nature regenerate in order to turn this imbalance around I love taking pictures of icebergs because they are forever changing they’re born they travel they interact and then they melt to the Sea feeding life to the next cycle of icebergs it’s
Beautiful come check out what Audi is doing in our series on esgs come along let’s get inspired you know Sebastian we want to be Engineers of Optimism
Watch the first episode of our new series, ‘The Bigger Picture’, with polar explorer and photographer Sebastian Copeland, as he unveils how Audi is driving sustainability by implementing ESG principles.
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