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Barbara Kux: We at Siemens have made a clear commitment to aligning our busi-
ness activities with the interests of the generations to come. And that means fulfill-
ing our responsibilities not only to our shareholders and employees but also to the
environment and society as a whole. Sustainability entails thinking and acting on a
long-term basis in order to do justice to all these aspects. By growing profitably, we
can honor our responsibilities to the environment, our employees, our shareholders
and society. For example, the utilization of energy-efficient technologies has a sim-
ple economic logic: procurement costs can be recouped in a short time through the
savings they generate. Consequently, green technologies will be a strong growth
driver for Siemens in the future. Our customers will also profit from significant CO2
reductions and cost savings, and – what is particularly important to me – we’ll be
making a valuable contribution to protecting the climate and the environment.
Barbara Kux: Current economic developments worldwide offer tremendous oppor-
tunities for Siemens and its comprehensive Environmental Portfolio. The scope of
our Environmental Portfolio – which covers the entire energy conversion chain – is
unique worldwide. As the overview on the central foldout in this Report shows, the
Portfolio includes solutions in virtually every environment-related field of power
generation, transmission and utilization – whether in buildings, lighting, transpor-
tation or industry – as well as a host of other green technologies such as water pu-
rification and air pollution control systems. And our approach is paying off. In fiscal
2009, products and systems from the Portfolio, which was first defined in fiscal
2007, enabled our customers to reduce their CO2 emissions by some 210 million
tons – an amount more than 40 times the total CO2 emissions generated in the
same period by our own business activities or, to give you an even better idea, an
amount roughly equal to the combined annual CO2 emissions of New York, Tokyo,
London, Munich and Berlin. But that’s still not enough: by 2011, we want to reduce
our customers’ annual greenhouse gas emissions by around 300 million tons.
Barbara Kux: In fiscal 2009 alone, our environmental and climate protection prod-
ucts and solutions generated revenue of around €23 billion – nearly a third of our
total sales. By 2011, we intend to increase this figure to €25 billion. I think the num-
bers speak for themselves.
Barbara Kux: With the products and solutions in our Environmental Portfolio, we
intend to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions – clearly the most ef-
fective measures at our disposal. We also want to make our own operations greener
by cutting our CO2 emissions 20 percent by 2011 (compared to 2006) on a revenue-
adjusted basis. A major lever here is our Green Building Initiative, which will help
us reduce energy consumption, water consumption and waste at our most impor-
tant locations 20 percent by 2011.
Your responsibilities also include driving
sustainability at our company. How do
you define sustainability at Siemens and
what aspect of it are you focusing on
most?
Ms. Kux, when you joined the Managing
Board, the global economic and financial
crisis was already on the horizon. Now,
it’s the dominant factor in the world
economy. What impact do you think the
downturn will have on Siemens?
And how will this benefit Siemens?
What environmental and climate protec-
tion measures has Siemens introduced
internally?
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