Katowice/Munich, 10. December 2018: On the occasion
of the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice, the BMW Group
announced that the company is already sourcing electricity from
renewable sources by 100% in Europe. Furthermore, the BMW Group
underlined that it will source electricity from renewable sources
worldwide by 2020.
The BMW Group is committed to decarbonisation in in the transport
sector. The holistic approach of the BMW Group to energy management
during the production and a clear strategy to increase the number of
electrified models across all brands and model series are an important
contribution in this direction.
The partnership between the UN Climate Change Conferences and the BMW
Group dates back to 1992. After continuously participating in the COP
climate conferences since 2008, the BMW Group will once again play an
active part at COP 24. This year, the conference will be presided over
by the Government of Poland and take place in Katowice, Poland, from 3
to 14 December 2018.
Sustainable Innovation Forum 2018
At COP24, the BMW Group will be present in different events and
formats, contributing both impetus and expertise to talks and
presentations on sustainable development. The BMW Group once again
assumes the role as headline sponsor of the Sustainable Innovation
Forum on 9 and 10 December 2018. The Sustainable Innovation Forum
(SIF), now in its 9th Edition has established itself as the
premier sustainability event at UN COP, providing leading stakeholders
from the political arena, business world and society across sectors
and industries with the perfect platform to discuss the challenges of
sustainable development.
Focus on Four Key Streams
The Forum will open with an innovation day on four key streams,
Circular economy, sustainable mobility, energy transition and climate finance.
In the discussions with lawmakers and business leaders as well as
NGOs, representatives of the BMW Group will advocate the importance of
implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and share their
views on how companies like BMW Group can provide solutions to
decarbonize the mobility sector.
The BMW Group will also present in the exhibition area of the Forum
the results of the 2018 Stakeholder Dialogue Series “Cities in
Progress”, this series reached its final destination in Berlin last
October. Previous events took place in Los Angeles, Melbourne,
Shenzhen and Rotterdam with a focus on exchanging ideas with the
different stakeholders involved and launching initial collaborative
projects. The dialogues focused on how mobility will evolve in the
cities of the future and explored alternative mobility concepts. In
all five cities visited the main challenges pointed out by the
participants were traffic congestion, air pollution and lack of
parking space. The stakeholders shared their expectations for the BMW
Group to provide new mobility services in addition to its existing
products and services, as well as to have a product portfolio
predominantly featuring emission- free vehicles.