ENGIE Deutschland supports Bergwaldprojekt e. V.

Cologne  - Committed to our nature: ENGIE Deutschland and its subsidiary Otto Building Technologies are committed to protecting the German forests and have donated 6,000 trees to Bergwaldprojekt e. V. Karsten Palme, Communications Officer and responsible for the project at ENGIE Deutschland, says: "Sustainability and climate protection are a focus at ENGIE Deutschland. This is what we have committed ourselves to in the context of our 'climate neutrality' mission. Therefore, it is important to us to support Bergwaldprojekt e. V. and thus to help to preserve the local forests for the next generations." The team of ENGIE Deutschland was actively involved in the project: Under the expert guidance of the Bergwaldprojekt and in cooperation with local forest and nature conservation officers, around 50 employees worked in Werdohl in Sauerland and Baden-Baden at the beginning of October. Over the course of two project days, they performed planting, maintenance, erosion control, and biotope maintenance of a total of 1,000 trees. "We work every day to guide our customers on their way to climate neutrality with technical and economic measures. In the Bergwald project, we made a contribution to greater sustainability in a completely different way: On a mountain slope in Baden-Baden, we filled a gap with more than 520 young trees that had been created by drought and bark beetle damage in 2018. This was a great experience for the entire ENGIE team," says Michael Worgitzki, Head of Sales Energy Solutions at ENGIE Deutschland.
 

ENGIE is committed to climate protection

The Bergwaldprojekt, in cooperation with the North Rhine-Westphalian State Forestry and Timber Office and the City of Augsburg, had already taken on the planting of the additional 4,500 native trees in the Neuenrade and Augsburg forest districts in the spring of 2021. They help to stabilize around 13,000 square meters of mixed forest. Bergwaldprojekt e. V. is a non-profit association that has been working for 30 years in Germany to protect and preserve our local forests.

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