Conference of the Parties COP15

Dear Readers,

At the end of May 2009 Volvo group presented an unique tool (maybe somebody heard about it but I wasn’t familiar with it) called ‘CO2 pedometer’ which helps to monitor the carbon emissions from commute (travels home – work).

A Test group in Volvo company in Göteborg in Sweden used this measure which is a mobile-based software to check what are the CO2 emissions from particular commute of each employee. Thanks to this tool the test group, changing their habits (changing car for bike or public transport etc.), was able to reduce daily CO2 emissions by more then 30%. What do you think about it?

I think many holding with huge amount of people should recognize this tool as an important case as it could be for example a nice Corporate Social Responsibility communication or even an cost saving measure.

I often hear about some other propositions regarding traveling like: eco-driving, picking up your friends when their are leaving close to you and working within the same company (avoiding two cars or more, so-called car-pool), public transport (traffic jams in big cities are more and more annoying), hybrid cars etc.. However sometimes it is good that each person sees how he could individually mitigate CO2 emissions and protect the climate.

I think Volvo initiative is worth following.

Regards,
Anthony

(the picture in this article is used from the official Volvo press release)