Philips
Lighting has set sustainability goals as a standalone, listed company, building
on the long legacy of Philips’ world class performance in sustainability and
its EcoVision programs. ‘Brighter Lives,
Better World’ builds on Philips Lighting’s ambition to create brighter lives
with quality light that improves people’s wellbeing, safety and productivity.
The company is accelerating the shift to energy efficient LED and connected
lighting systems that help to create a better world where customers can reduce
their electricity use by up to 80 percent. Important program commitments for
2020 include:
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Sustainable revenues: 80% of turnover from products, systems and services providing environmental
and social benefits
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Sustainable operations: 100% carbon neutral operations and shift to 100% renewable electricity
Speaking at the Climate
Week NYC, Eric Rondolat, CEO Philips Lighting, said, “Our ambition is to lead
the industry with sustainable connected lighting and to show that we walk the
talk, we launched our ‘Brighter Lives, Better World’ sustainability program. We
have firm goals for 2020 which include improving energy efficiency, reducing
waste through circular lighting and delivering access to light in off-grid
areas. We are convinced that we can combat climate change and reduce global
energy demand through our commitment to sell more than two billion LED light
points by 2020. For us, sustainability is a double win: a driver for economic
growth and a means of advancing the planet.”
As buildings
account for approximately 40 percent of all global energy usage, renovation of
existing building stock and new building technologies can help to achieve
energy efficiency which in turn can enable emissions reductions. Today, Philips
Lighting announced, together with The Climate Group and World Green Building
Council, a shared call-to-action for all new buildings to use LED lighting by
2020 and all existing buildings by 2030.
“As we move forward to a new climate resilient future, one of the most immediate opportunities we can seize upon is driving energy efficiency through renovation and lighting,” said Damian Ryan, Acting CEO, The Climate Group. “Buildings and infrastructure use a significant amount of global energy, so bold targets are needed to dramatically reduce this and help keep us on track of the Paris Agreement. Adopting energy efficient LED lighting is the fastest and most cost effective change we could make tomorrow. This is why we support the call for all new and existing buildings to be fitted with energy efficient LED lighting by 2030.”
In 2015, Philips
was recognised as a world leader for corporate action on climate change,
achieving the highest score in the CDP Climate Change survey for the third year
in a row. Reaching Philips Lighting’s carbon neutrality goal by 2020 is
estimated to save an amount of energy equivalent to that generated by 60
medium-sized coal-fired power stations with emissions equivalent to those from
24 million cars by 2020.
Source - Philips
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Source - Philips
This is a contributory post. @2019 The Global Centre. For re-publishing, write to Archana@theglobalcentre.org.