129 GRI Index and Assurance statement Engaged citizen Fair partner Responsible banker Human Capacity Report Sustainability management Overview Foreword Transport at the Vienna sites Business trips have increased in number in recent years partly because new companies have been added to the scope of reporting and the basis for data collection has improved overall. In order to reduce CO2 emissions, the costs incurred by employees for annual public transportation tickets in Vienna have been covered in full since 2014. In addition, employees are given their own bicycle rooms and bicycle parking space in front of the head office. A special bicycle repair service is also offered every year. Company bikes are available for our employees to use for business trips within Vienna. RBI AG and Raiffeisen-Leasing GmbH have three e-cars in their own fleet, which employees can use for business trips. CO2 emissions in the fleet of the central institute and specialized subsidiaries amount to 141 g CO2/km and at RBI AG to 144 g CO2/km. The RZB Group in Austria has participated in the “Green Points” project of ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways) since 2015. Green Points are allocated for each kilometer traveled by train. Ultimately, these can be used to benefit a selected nature project in Austria. The decision fell on support for the project “Grasende Landschaftspfleger” (Grazing Countryside Conservationists). Within the scope of this project, railway embankments and land along the tracks of ÖBB should be turned into new grazing land. This will contribute to increasing biological diversity and at the same time to preventing the invasion of alien plant species, the invasive neophytes. These in particular have spread dramatically in recent years and pose a threat to the domestic ecosystem. As “conservationists”, various grazing animals, where possible old breeds of domestic animals, will be used depending on the location and quality of the area. In 2016, a total of 192,679 Green Points were collected in the RZB Group in Austria, which is equivalent to a saving of about 31 tonnes of CO2. Die Umwelt liebt die Danke fürs Bahnfahren. Die RZB Group hat im Jahr 2016 durch Dienstreisen mit der Bahn über 31,3 Tonnen CO2 Emissionen eingespart. Die in Summe gesammelten 192.671 Green Points kommen dem Projekt „Grasende Landschaftspfleger“ zu Gute. Ing. Mag. (FH) Andreas Matthä Vorstandsvorsitzender der ÖBB-Holding AG Februar 2017 Travel at the network banks Central Europe (CE) Raiffeisen Bank Polska S.A. in Poland has an internal travel policy aimed at reducing business travel and ensuring it is friendly to the environment. Tatra banka, a.s. in Slovakia provides its employees with shuttle transport between the two head office buildings. The employees of Raiffeisenbank a.s. in the Czech Republic again participated in the “Bike 2 work” competition in 2016 and commuted to work by bicycle almost every day for a month. The bank paid the participation fee and provided appropriate infrastructure. A total of 180 tonnes of CO2 were saved again. The initiative is expected to be supported again in 2017. Raiffeisen Bank Zrt. in Hungary offers its employees the use of a free shuttle bus service, with the aim of reducing the need for individual transport. Employees also receive a public transportation allowance. The fleet was reduced in 2016. The purchase of an electric or hybrid vehicle is planned for 2017.
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