After a thorough and successful audit of the recently introduced environmental management system, Ecologic was awarded the Berlin Ökoprofit certificate. Altogether twelve small and medium sized enterprises from Berlin participated in this round of workshops leading up to the certification. The programme is funded by the Berlin Senate for Urban Development. In the course of the participation in Ökoprofit, the environmental impact of Ecologic’s activities was monitored and partly reduced, i.e. by switching to a renewable energy provider. Furthermore, all travel activities were accounted for in order to provide basis for the introduction of an emissions compensation scheme.

After completion of Module 1, the environmental management will be developed further. In 2006, a focus will be placed on a partial compensation of air travel emissions. In addition, further efforts will address the documentation and assessment of Ecologic’s contribution to improving framework conditions for environmental and sustainability policy.

The aims and principles of the environmental management system are detailed in the environmental guidelines [pdf, 158 KB, German].