HAVEL & PARTNERS as a founding member has joined the association Climate and Sustainable Leaders Czech Republic, where leading companies from various sectors of the Czech economy have joined forces. The aim of the platform is to track, through the first comprehensive report in the Czech Republic called “Carbon Tracker”, the ambitions of the largest domestic companies to reduce their carbon footprint and motivate other companies to launch projects contributing to sustainability and climate protection.
“The transition to sustainable operations is already a significant business advantage and will be a necessity in the future. At HAVEL & PARTNERS, however, we see sustainability not only as a fundamental issue of survival in business, but also as a huge opportunity to contribute to the transformation of society as a whole. Leaders in individual industries should set an example and actively contribute to rational solutions to this issue, which is why we have joined the Climate and Sustainable Leaders Czech Republic initiative,” commented partner Jan Koval on HAVEL & PARTNERS’ participation in the project.
The Climate and Sustainable Leaders Czech Republic platform wants to help companies make the transition to sustainable operations, support their efforts to reduce CO2 production and other goals related to the implementation of expected changes in legislation and the transition to a new, carbon-neutral economy.
The intention of the association is also to publish annually a comprehensive overview of the CO2 emissions production and reduction ambitions of the largest companies in the Czech Republic. The chosen methodology for calculating the carbon footprint, which the platform uses to compile the overview, is based on the calculation according to the internationally recognized GHG protocol methodology. The result will be a ranking based on a comparison of data obtained from public sources and, in particular, from questionnaires sent to 150 companies with the largest turnover in the Czech Republic. The report with professional commentary will be published by the platform under the name Carbon Tracker (https://www.carbontracker.cz/) for the first time this year at the end of May and beginning of June.
“Every industry and every company have a different starting point, and in some industries a number of innovations are needed to even approach carbon neutrality and maintain their basic competitiveness. We want to track the ambition of individual companies in this area, connect them and motivate them to sustainable projects,” said Jakub Skavroň, chairman of the administrative board of Climate and Sustainable Leaders Czech Republic, of power2green.
In addition to the Carbon Tracker report itself, the platform is preparing other activities in the field of education, awareness raising and methodological support in sustainability and achieving climate goals.
Leading companies from the professional services, finance, insurance and telecommunications sectors, as well as academia, have joined the association. In addition to HAVEL & PARTNERS, founding members include Allianz pojišťovna, Česká spořitelna, Czech Technical University in Prague, Československá obchodní banka, The CO2IN, Mastercard Europe, power2green, PwC Czech Republic, Raiffeisenbank, UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia, Vodafone Czech Republic, and White & Case.
The association is an open platform, of which other companies can also become members.
