Sustainability Report 2012 - Generali Versicherung AG

MobilityWithin the Group, in the most recent years increasing importance has been given to mobility management, developingand implementing strategies to ensure that personnel and cargo are transported efficiently and sustainably.The Group’s objective is to cut employee travel as much as possible, above all reducing the use of private vehiclesand increasing the use of public transport in order to decrease air and noise pollution in cities. In all countries, mobilitymanagement is often assigned to a dedicated person, who may be a mobility or travel manager, and is responsiblefor planning sustainability initiatives, improving home/work journeys, maintaining relations on these issues with themunicipal authorities. In certain cases, these responsibilities also include managing the corporate fleet (in Austria) ordefining contractual conditions in place with transportation service providers (in Germany).Distribution of kilometres travelled byemployees on duty14.4■ train26.8■ airplane%58.8■ carIn 2012 the Group’s employees made work-related journeys by car, air and train totalling 206,468,419 km. Journeysusing all types of transport contributed to the decrease of 3% compared to 2011, which is mainly attributable to theadoption of travel policies in all countries, giving preference to the use of public transport, and specifically promotethe use of the least polluting types of transport, as well as car policies which set out maximum limits of carbon dioxide(CO 2) emissions for company cars.Road kilometres travelled by employees on dutyCountry Km Change2012/20112011 2012Italy 43,872,883 40,413,330 -7.9%Austria 13,587,000 13,067,573 -3.8%France 26,244,610 28,123,103 7.2%Germany 34,916,555 33,395,809 -4.4%Spain 5,347,246 4,728,042 -11.6%Switzerland 1,711,883 1,618,308 -5.5%TOTAL 125,680,177 121,346,165 -3.4%For France and Swiss insurance companies it was only possible to measure the mileage travelled for journeys made by corporate fleet.In 2012, Group employees travelled over 121 million km by car. The decrease of 3.4% compared to 2011 was the result of the decline inmileage of journeys using personal cars, while the mileage of the corporate fleet, equal to over half of road travel (63,677,969 km), grewby 3.1%. A particularly sharp decrease was recorded in Spain, where the mileage travelled by the corporate fleet decreased, also as aresult of the significant promotion of the use of videoconferencing by the Top Management. Conversely, in France there was an increasein mileage travelled due to increased journeys by the sales workforce.The savings linked to lower mileage by car has been estimated at approximately 500 thousand euros.ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE | 133