19 Jul 2017

Discount supermarket chain Aldi Süd recognised for climate protection efforts

Federal Ministry for the Environment

German discount supermarket chain Aldi Süd has been honoured by German environment minister Barbara Hendricks for its efforts to integrate climate protection into its business practices, the Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB) said in a press release. “Climate protection and economic success are not mutually exclusive,” Hendricks said as she welcomed the food discounter to the Climate Protection and Energy Efficiency Group of the German Economy. The BMUB says Aldi Süd uses solar panels to power over 1,250 of its stores, provides e-car charging posts to its customers free of charge at several locations, and saved over 10 million kilowatt hours of power through energy management in 2016.

Read the press release in German here.

For background, see the CLEW dossier The Energiewende and Efficiency.

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