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aprile 22, 2021 - Volkswagen

#Project1Hour: Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles taking part in the Volkswagen Group’s biggest climate campaign

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  • Earth Day 2021: #volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWCV) employees to spend an hour on making their contribution 
    to climate protection
  • VWCV CEO #carstenintra: “At #volkswagen Commercial Vehicles we have a clear goal: With our products and services we want to provide an environmentally friendlier and a more resource-efficient mobility. This is our path to a "zero-emission" future.”

Hannover, 22 April 2021- #volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is participating as part of the global ‘Earth Day’ today in the Group wide climate campaign #Project1Hour. Employees will spend an hour, exclusively and in addition to ongoing projects, jointly looking at the issue of climate protection, discussing their personal experiences and developing concrete ideas for improvement. 

Carsten Intra, Chairman of the VWCV Board of Management explains: “At #volkswagen Commercial Vehicles we have a clear goal: With our products and services we want to provide an environmentally friendlier and a more resourceefficient mobility. This is our path to a "zero-emission" future,  by the way not only for our vehicles, but also in terms of production. This path can only be successful if everyone participates. Each and everyone of us is required to reconsider our own mobility behaviour. Climate-neutral micromobility and 
multimodal solutions are important levers. This is exemplified by our Cargo e Bike. Developed and produced by VWCV in Hanover, the Cargo e-Bike will be on the market later this year.

During the #Project1Hour, employees will participate in a creative, open workshop, busying themselves with their own contributions on the subject of climate protection. The workshop will provide the opportunity to use a quiz to check your own knowledge of climate change and to find out their own CO2 footprint. In the discussion, ideas to reduce the personal footprint can be developed and measures for specific action can be developed – both in their private lives and in the working environment. “Today, all 660,000 employees in the #volkswagen Group are invited to discuss these topics within the #Project1Hour. My wish and request to all colleagues at VWCV: Talk about your 
own experiences in your teams and share your insights,” adds Intra.

Bertina Murkovic, Chair of the VWCV Works Council: “The fact that #volkswagen is participating in this year's Earth Day with its own initiative is something that I find very good! It is a powerful sign to have 660,000 VW colleagues around the world developing and implementing ideas to strengthen climate protection. We as the Works Council of #volkswagen Commercial Vehicles will naturally be fully involved and will run the #Project1Hour project with our colleagues. In order to restrict global warming to appreciably under 2°C requires an enormous effort. On the one hand the political sector needs to set ambitious guidelines. And on the other, we need companies that develop products and services fit for the future. We at VWCV are moving in the right direction here with MOIA. All in all, we should build in this endeavour on something that has already frequently led us to our goal in the past: solidarity! I wish all colleagues a successful event and lots of good climate protection ideas!“

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