AM ALPHA has been consistently focussing on measures to reduce its CO2 emissions in business operations for some time now. The depreciation of business trips through the increased use of video conferencing systems, travelling by train whenever sensible and possible, a gradual conversion of the vehicle fleet to hybrid and electric vehicles or business bikes, an almost paperless office and involvement in several exciting national and international environmental projects to reduce CO2 have resulted in AM ALPHA now being certified again by ClimatePartner.
Clean drinking water in Zoba Maekel, Eritrea
Eritrea is highly vulnerable to droughts, floods, soil erosion, desertification, and land degradation. Suffering from Africa’s highest levels of food insecurity and malnutrition, this situation is expected to be exacerbated by climate change. For many rural communities, the struggle to find safe drinking water can take a major part of a family‘s resources. Usually, the burden falls on women and children to collect water, walking a great distance from home. Water drawn from pools or rivers is often contaminated with potentially lethal bacteria. Thus, to make water safe to drink it needs to be boiled.
This project helps to identify and repair broken boreholes in the Zoba Maekel district, located in the Central Region of Eritrea, showing high levels of poverty. Many boreholes are owned by community-based organizations (CBOs) and have broken down because maintenance programmes have been poorly managed, or proved too expensive. This project supports communities in renovating their boreholes so that they deliver clean water and breakdowns are quickly fixed.
emPOWERing, Africa, continent-wide
More than 1.3 billion people live on the African continent, and half of the population has no access to electricity. With this innovative combination of climate protection projects, we support many African regions with a sustainable and secure energy supply. This unique project portfolio promotes wind and solar projects that utilise Africa's great potential for sustainable energy generation - with solar energy projects in Madagascar, Namibia and Egypt and wind energy projects in South Africa and Namibia. The project portfolio saves around 446,770 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.
“All of the projects we support have a number of positive effects. They improve the quality of life of local people and also actively involve them. The reduction in emissions has a positive effect on the ecological balance of the entire environment.This fits with our AM ALPHA mindset; we firmly believe that the world as a whole can only be changed if everyone starts small…." explains Martin Lemke, Managing Director at AM ALPHA.
