The Raiffeisen Climate Protection Day was held for
the third time at the UNIQA Tower.
As a founding member of the Raiffeisen Climate Protection Initiative (RKI), UNIQA’s objective is to meet the environmental challenges of the future with sustainable measures. The RKI leverages the “combined power” of its members to initiate substantial projects to fight climate change. This utilises both content-related and financial synergies among the participating companies. UNIQA has provided all of its employees with a climate protection manual that conveys the RKI’s aims, including specific tips and suggestions for climate relief in personal and professional life. The manual also presents UNIQA’s climate-related activities as well as all of its climate-friendly insurance products. One of many actions is the annual Climate Protection Day in the UNIQA Tower, which is meant to contribute to public awareness of issues related to sustainability, energy efficiency and renewable resources. Recent UNIQA RKI-related activities in 2010 included participation in the third Raiffeisen Energy Conservation Day and support for the “Car Fasting” campaign, which calls for a reduction of automobile travel and rethinking of personal mobility behaviour during the Lent.
Christian Konrad and former EU Commission Member
Franz Fischler, chairman of the Raiffeisen Climate
Protection Initiative, congratulate UNIQA employee
Andreas Rauter (centre) for his first-place finish in
the “Raiffeisen Climate Protection Challenge”.
In 2010, a competition of ideas, the “Raiffeisen Climate Protection Challenge”, was held as part of the RKI for the first time. Fourteen RKI members took part, and UNIQA managed to submit the largest number of total projects. The UNIQA employee team with the “Green Mobility” concept demonstrated their visionary innovation, and won first place. The team proposed introducing three rating levels (G, GG, GGG) to facilitate the evaluation of sustainable mobility measures and then evaluate whether these goals were met.
