Puma joins UNEP’s Climate Neutral Network
Germany-based sporting goods brand Puma is to become the first major sportswear company to join the Climate Neutral Network of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
PUMA plans to reduce its carbon footprint by converting to green energy using solar power and other renewable sources, improving travel and logistics to reduce transport-related emissions and leasing more fuel-efficient cars for its employees, among other measures. The plan covers the whole business on a global scale, including its offices, stores, warehouses and the shipping of goods.
Achim Steiner, UN under-secretary-general and UNEP executive director, said: “By becoming the first global sport brand to join the Climate Neutral Network, Puma is showing how sport can play a powerful green role in a low-carbon world. Sport has the unique ability to catalyse action among millions of people around the world. “We look forward to working with Puma to green mass sporting events and to engage sports men and women and fans around the world on the environmental challenges facing this generation.”
The company’s head office in Germany already uses renewable energy including concrete core temperature control and solar power for electricity and water heating, and its Boston office has a large-scale solar power station. The company is also working to help its suppliers reduce their emissions. Its South African supplier, Impahla Clothing, became the first carbon-neutral apparel supplier on the African continent.
