Jens Geimer is serious. His medium-sized Hachenburger brewery in the Westerwald is set to operate in a completely “climate-neutral” manner by 2030. In 2015, he commissioned his first climate assessment from the consulting firm Zukunftswerk, a cooperative in Peißenberg, Upper Bavaria. Since then, he has had his company regularly audited. Geimer wants to find further weak points in its environmental management and demonstrate progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, the company is trying to make the brewery increasingly climate-friendly. Two of his employees collected the data for around 50 to 60 working hours. “Since we are already largely digitalized, the effort was limited,” reports the brewery boss.
According to their own information, the Hachenburgers have their emissions from
