This page focuses solely on emissions at the VAUDE Campus in Tettnang-Obereisenbach, which serves as the company's headquarters (HQ OEB). Since 2011, VAUDE has been annually compiling a climate footprint specifically for this location. As a result, we have detailed insights into the emission levels across different areas of the company. The comprehensive Climate Footprint for the entire organization, encompassing the upstream supply chain, is available for review here. Additionally, you can download the Climate Footprint from this page.
The primary factors for reducing emissions relates to material consumption in our manufacturing. Through increased material efficiency, meaning better utilization of material width for individual cut parts, and through transitioning to recycled or renewable biobased materials, we aim to exert even greater influence in this area. More about our Made in Germany production can be found here.
finished VAUDE products en route to specialty retailers or directly to end customers, as well as consumables for store construction, paper, coffee, and more.
The second most significant contributor to climate-harming emissions is logistics related to goods. Here, we specifically account for transported quantities directly associated with the VAUDE Campus Tettnang, including materials for VAUDE manufacturing, finished VAUDE products en route to specialty retailers or directly to end customers, as well as consumables for store construction, paper, coffee, and more.
While emissions from the company fleet have significantly decreased due to the transition to electric vehicles, and business travel is less climate-damaging thanks to the VAUDE Mobility Policy, the daily commuting routes of VAUDE employees to work are still too high and rank third in the order of relevant emission sources at the VAUDE Campus Tettnang.
In 2018, we achieved our initial mobility goal of reducing emissions from employee mobility by 10% compared to 2015 levels. Building on this success, our new objective, set in 2019, is to further decrease emissions from employee mobility by an additional 25% by the end of the fiscal year 2024 compared to 2019 levels. As illustrated in the graph, this target remains ambitious.
In addition, VAUDE has established science-based climate targets for the company fleet, aiming to reduce Scope 1 emissions by 45% by 2026. This target encompasses emissions from sources such as gas heating. Through the continued transition to electric vehicles, we are confident in our ability to meet this goal.
You can find more insights into the complexities and challenges of mobility initiatives at VAUDE here.
Another aspect crucial for evaluating the effectiveness of VAUDE's climate strategy is the examination of emissions in relation to various benchmarks. In the subsequent graph, we correlate emissions from the fiscal year 2023 with growth in sales, workforce size, and production output, each relative to different baseline years as well as the previous year. It's worth noting that 2019 acts as the reference year for VAUDE's science-based climate objectives.
All figures related to the VAUDE Campus in Tettnang ("HQ OEB") "only" include emissions from this location, including all proportionate associated transports.
- Sales decreased by six percent in the fiscal year 2023 compared to the previous year 2022 but increased by 32% compared to the base year 2019. More about VAUDE's sales development here.
- Emissions at the VAUDE Campus in Tettnang, including proportional transports, decreased by 16% compared to the previous year; however, compared to the base year 2019, they increased by 35% due to the strong growth of the entire company, especially the VAUDE Manufaktur.
- Given that production output in fiscal year 2023 decreased in line with the decline in sales compared to the previous year, emissions per ton of production output from VAUDE manufacturing saw a significant increase over the same period: Our production machines operate at a relatively high baseline load; regrettably, energy consumption doesn't diminish proportionally with reduced capacity utilization, resulting in higher emissions per unit of production output.
- Emissions per employee decreased by 20% in the previous year (with almost the same number of employees at the VAUDE Campus Tettnang), compared to the base year 2019, they only increased slightly.
- The important area of emissions from employee mobility has fortunately also decreased, but we still have a lot to do here (as described above).
