CBA set ambitious 57.6% emissions targets to be achieved by 2020, and through a comprehensive, holistic and ongoing efficiency program, sophisticated monitoring, analysis and building tuning, this year CBA has already reached a 52.5% reduction, another 7% since last year. This includes saving 1,855 tonnes CO2-e in their NSW properties, and almost 400,000 dollars.
They’ve backed all of this with science based targets, onsite solar, a Carbon Positive commitment and this month signed on as the first Australian RE100 company, going 100 per cent renewable by 2030.
In parallel, they continue developing on-site renewable energy generation capacity, and all new retail branches are being built to minimum 5 star Green Star rating, and they have developed a program to rate all main commercial tenancies for IEQ.