2019 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
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CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change has turned into a global crisis, and its expected economic impacts on the business world are among the most critical issues of today. The business world has a great responsibility in the management, which now includes such issues as digitalization, distributed energy resources, and low carbon economy, of the climate change crisis.

Many companies in the automotive industry have made many commitments that they will take necessary actions on this issue. In this context, we, as Tofaş, continue to work for preventing climate change and implement the best practices as well as the plans for transition to the low carbon future step by step.

We carry out our works within the scope of combating climate change and transition to a low carbon economy in three main areas:

We aim to demonstrate to all our stakeholders the importance we attach to this challenge by carrying out all of works on this issue through the Sustainability Committee and Sustainability Working Group, that report directly to the CEO.

“Tofaş has presented its responses to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in 2019 and as a result of the evaluation, it was included in the B- (Management) band in Climate Change and Water programs.”

When we evaluate our activities from a lifelong perspective and consider the needs and expectations of our stakeholders, we can say that our greatest impact in the field of climate change is the usage of our vehicles. Our stakeholders expect us to design and manufacture vehicles that will ensure their travel experiences and transport and distribution operations with more sustainable methods. As Tofaş, we work to develop vehicles with lower emissions or using alternative fuels. Our transition journey to a low carbon economy has already begun and we aware that this is a process that needs to be continued with constant improvement. In this context, we share our progress every year with all our stakeholders through our reports.

“Studies on reducing emissions consist of 21 percent of our R&D activities.”

Within the scope of transition to a low carbon economy,

“By 2020, we aim to have reduced our greenhouse gas emissions resulting from production by 30 percent compared to 2011.”

For more information about Climate Change, you may visit  tofas.com.tr/en/Sustainability/EnvironmentClimateChange or refer to the Tofaş Annual Report 2019, which is published interactively at  ir.tofas.com.tr/2019/.