Sustainable development is rooted into all areas of our business
At Linde, we live our mission of making our world more productive. Through our high-quality solutions, technologies and services we are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain and protect our planet. We want to help our customers to improve their environmental performance and reduce their carbon footprint. At the same time, we are committed to minimizing our own environmental resource intensity, including for energy, water and waste. We manage performance through a sustainable development management system with KPIs and targets that are applicable to global operations and our value chain.
Measuring environmental impact
Mapping of our environmental impacts shows that energy consumption for producing our gases, and emissions from transporting gases to our customers, are the two significant ones. We have defined indicators to measure these impacts and have established targets and improvement programmes. Linde has traditionally been working to develop and deliver innovative technologies and products that protect environment. Examples of environmentally friendly gas applications are:
- ● Pulp production: oxygen reduces the use of chlorine
- ● Water treatment : CO2 and oxygen as alternative to chemicals
- ● Transport cooling: CO2 replaces diesel
- ● Steel production: furnaces use oxygen instead of air
- ● Bioenergy: gasification turns forest residues into biofuel
- ● LNG replaces oil, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas
- ● Hydrogen has the potential to replace fossil fuels in both industry and transport applications
How our gases and solutions contribute to sustainability
The Sustainable Development Materiality Assessment (SDMA) defines the priority sustainable development factors for Linde and is the basis of Linde's 10-year sustainable development targets 2018-2028.
Clean energy initiatives
We believe that issues over long-term energy availability and future climate change will only continue to intensify. Addressing the issues surrounding climate change is one of the highest priorities for Linde around the world.
Linde Green – liquefied gases without carbon footprint
Linde Green is an opportunity for you as a customer to further reduce your emissions, strengthen your
sustainability profile and become an even fairer choice.
We take the next step and proudly present Linde Green – liquefied gases without carbon footprint, using
renewable energy and fuel in production and for transports, together with climate-compensation.
Climate compensated carbon dioxide
It is increasingly well-known that using carbonated water at home means buying far fewer disposable plastic bottles, which reduces transportation and saves money. By using CO2 in sparkling water machines you help us to reduce Greenhouse Emissions through climate compensation.
Our commitment to the Taking Root project in Nicaragua means we offset more than we emit by planting trees. By offsetting 110% of our emissions by planting trees which bind carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while they grow, we contribute to a positive climate impact. This means the product can be classed as climate-positive.
Hydrogen – supporting customers achieve their decarbonization targets
To tackle climate change, countries around the world are putting in place ambitious plans to transition
to low-carbon sources of energy, with hydrogen at its core. Even though light and small, hydrogen is a
powerful energy carrier – one kg of hydrogen carries three times the energy of kerosene. It is a
versatile, clean and safe energy carrier that can be used as fuel or as industry feedstock – be it
mobility, heavy industry, power buffering or aviation industry. When used in a fuel cell, it produces
zero emissions as it only emits water vapor, setting it as a strong contender to decarbonize
transportation.
Hydrogen could be the most competitive low-carbon solution in more than 20 applications by 2030,
including long-haul trucking, shipping, and steel. Linde covers the full spectrum of the hydrogen value
chain. We can help customers and industry stakeholders navigate through the complexities of the
transition to a zero-carbon economy.
Community engagement
We are committed to improving the communities where we live and work. We especially support programs and initiatives related to the environment, science and chemistry education.
The projects and community engagement initiatives that we support are in line with our brand values and follow our code of conduct.
- ● Aim to benefit the community at large (local, regional, national or global)
- ● Are initiated in order to solve a problem or address community-determined needs
- ● Are conducted through collaborative, on-going, long-term and mutually beneficial relationships
- ● Apply Linde resources (knowledge, expertise, position, building, land, human resource, capital)
- ● Create measurable and sustainable change
- ● Complement our mission of making our world more productive
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