Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Climate protection
• Renewable energy
• Environmental protection
• Community development

Environmental Achievements

• Plants prevent emissions of 600,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year.
• Plants produce 700,000 megawatt hours per year and supply 230,000 households.

Social Achievements

• Increased workforce from 80 to 120 employees in nine countries.
• Successful sale of a wind farm to a local supplier in Berviller-en-Moselle, Lorraine, supplying Creutzwald with electricity.
• Implemented a program to support municipalities in achieving climate-friendly energy supply ('Effekt-Check').

Governance Achievements

• First consolidated balance sheet for the ABO Wind Group presented.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Financing and sales of larger projects outside Germany were more difficult since Q4 2008.
• Financial crisis slowed down the development of renewable energy projects and external financing of larger foreign projects.
• Delays in project financing due to the financial crisis.
• Resistance from some parts of the population to biogas projects.

Mitigation Strategies

• Experience, good contacts, and a solid financial basis helped ABO Wind to assert itself successfully.
• Innovative financing models helped to emerge strengthened from the financial crisis.
• ABO Wind added competent colleagues to its planning team.
• Reached a settlement with protesters regarding a biogas plant in Samswegen.
• Intensified negotiations with more banks and investors.

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement

• Regional companies were considered as much as possible during construction.

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy)
• Goal 13 (Climate Action)

Wind and biogas plants contribute to renewable energy and climate change mitigation.

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Climate Protection
• Renewable Energy

Environmental Achievements

• Plants avoid the emission of around 2 million tons of carbon dioxide every year
• Plants produce around 2.6 million megawatt hours a year

Social Achievements

• Increased staffing levels, particularly in the service sector (50% increase)

Governance Achievements

• Not disclosed

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Changes in the domestic market (Germany) with no longer guaranteed fixed tariffs for wind power and a new tender process.
• Regulatory risks in various countries
• Currency risks through operations in South America, Iran, and the United Kingdom.
• Interest rate risk

Mitigation Strategies

• Consistent expansion of international activities
• Improving efficiency and keeping project development costs low
• Maintaining a lean corporate structure
• Interest rate hedges (short-to-medium term)
• Lower investment and operating costs, as well as adjusted compensation rates (medium-to-long term)

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Not disclosed

Responsible Procurement

• Not disclosed

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Not disclosed

Transition Risks

• Not disclosed

Opportunities

• Not disclosed

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: Null

Certifications: Null

Third-party Assurance: Not disclosed

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Not disclosed

Not disclosed

Sustainable Products & Innovation

• Not disclosed

Awards & Recognition

• Not disclosed