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q.beyond takes pioneering approach to sustainability

DGAP-News: q.beyond AG / Key word(s): Sustainability q.beyond takes pioneering approach to sustainability 23.06.2022 / 10:00 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. q.beyond takes pioneering approach to sustainability

- CO₂ emissions halved in just two years
- Rail now primary means of transport for business travel
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Cologne, 23 June 2022 – In the past two years, q.beyond has halved its CO₂ emissions and thus made significant advances towards its target of becoming climate neutral from 2025 onwards. The IT service provider is now taking further measures to bolster this success. Avoiding most domestic flights and using rail as the primary means of transport will significantly reduce the CO₂ emissions caused by business travel. Furthermore, in the next three years the company will convert the whole of its car pool to electric vehicles. q.beyond already offsets the residual emissions from its car pool and business travel with high-quality CO₂ certificates for climate protection projects. Starting in 2025, q.beyond will fully offset those emissions that cannot otherwise be avoided or reduced any further from all major sources along the value chain through to supplies to customers (scopes 1 to 3 in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol).

Climate neutrality offers competitive edge in SME sector

q.beyond’s CEO, Jürgen Hermann, sees his company as playing a pioneering role here: “Achieving climate neutrality in 2025 already will place us at a genuine competitive advantage”. He is convinced that q.beyond’s core target group, namely small and medium-sized enterprises, will deliberately choose climate-neutral IT service providers ever more frequently in the years ahead in order to reduce their own CO₂ footprints. Today, q.beyond already powers its data centres exclusively with green electricity, thus promoting the resource efficiency of its customers’ IT use.