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ESRS E1 – Climate change

ESRS E1.SBM-3 – Material impacts, risks and opportunities and their interaction with strategy and business model

ESRS E1 – Strategy

ESRS E1-1 – Transition plan for climate change mitigation

ESRS E1 – Impact, risk and opportunity management

ESRS E1-2 – Policies related to climate change mitigation and adaptation ESRS E1-3 – Actions and resources in relation to climate change policies

ESRS E1 – Metrics and targets

ESRS E1-4 – Targets related to climate change mitigation and adaptation ESRS E1-5 – Energy consumption and mix ESRS E1-6 – Gross Scope 1, 2, 3 and Total GHG emissions ESRS E1-7 – GHG removals and GHG mitigation projects financed through carbon credits

Climate change

We want to reduce our site emissions by 50% compared to the 2015 baseline year by 2025.

The Interzero Group helps more than 80,000 customers across Europe to implement circular business models and reduce their carbon footprint. We also want to make sure that our own processes are as climate and environmentally friendly as possible, and are working tirelessly to reduce our energy consumption and emissions.

ESRS E1 – Climate change

ESRS E1.SBM-3 – Material impacts, risks and opportunities and their interaction with strategy and business model

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our age, and Interzero is determined to help diminish the impact of the climate crisis and its consequences. As a leading provider of services for closing product, material and logistics loops, Interzero supports more than 80,000 customers across Europe in the responsible handling of resources and helps them to improve their own carbon footprint. The company enables organisations to implement circular processes, thereby contributing to sustainable, climate-friendly ways to do business. According to research conducted by the Fraunhofer UMSICHT Institute, Interzero’s recycling activities saved roughly 1.2 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2023 alone.

All of this means climate change mitigation is at the top of the agenda for Interzero. Its business activities have been shown to make a positive contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and rising demand for low-emission products and processes provides an opportunity for Interzero to enhance its reputation. Energy is another material topic in the context of the double materiality assessment. As a circular solutions provider with its own sorting and processing plants, Interzero operates in an energy-intensive sector with a high climate impact (NACE Code 38.32 Recovery of sorted materials). Transport and plant operations cause greenhouse gas emissions, which in turn create risks relating to rising carbon and operating costs.

As a supplement to the overview provided in ESRS 2 SBM-3, the table below presents the material IROs in the Climate Change category that Interzero has identified in the course of its DMA. The process for identifying IROs is documented in ESRS 2 IRO-1.

ESRS E1 – Climate change: material impacts, risks and opportunities

(Sub-)Sub-topic	Interzero IROs	IRO	+/-	A/P	Value chain	Time horizon
Climate change mitigation	The vehicle fleet causes greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in a negative climate impact.	I	-	A	U, OO, D	M, L
Climate change mitigation	A rising carbon price may significantly increase operating costs for companies with transport activities, as higher emissions charges have a direct adverse impact on fuel costs and thus the overall costs of the vehicle pool.	R			U, OO, D	M, L
Climate change mitigation	Recycling activities avoid greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in a positive climate impact.	I	+	A	U, OO, D	M, L
Climate change mitigation	Using recycling activities to contribute to climate change mitigation may result in reputational gains that may be reflected in improved financial performance.	O			OO	S, M
Energy	Operating our own sites and sites within the value chain requires energy consumption. The greenhouse gas emissions this causes have a negative climate impact.	I	-	A	U, OO, D	M, L
Energy	The rising energy costs of operating our own sites and sites within the value chain may cause operating costs to increase.	R			U, OO, D	M, L

Legend:

I = impact, R = risk, O = opportunity, + = positive, - = negative, A = actual, P = potential

Value chain: U = upstream, OO = own operations, D = downstream

Time horizon: K = short-term (one financial year), M = medium-term (one to five years), L = long-term (more than five years)

ESRS E1 – Strategy

ESRS E1-1 – Transition plan for climate change mitigation

Interzero does not have a transition plan for climate change mitigation at present. The company plans to develop one in the second half of 2025. The Corporate Sustainability Department is developing the transition plan in close cooperation with the Strategy unit as part of our annual strategy review. This process focuses on internal stakeholders responsible for carbon-intensive areas. These include the Executive Management teams responsible for energy-intensive plant operations and energy management, as well as departments that combine purchasing and supplier management.

Proposed approach:

Define strategic framework in accordance with the Paris Climate Agreement
Embed this framework into overall business strategy and financial planning
Develop and define science-based climate targets (medium and long-term), based on the 1.5-degree target, as the basis for a decarbonisation roadmap
Identify decarbonisation levers
Plan and implement operational reduction measures
Create corporate bodies and management tools (governance structures)

Resilience analysis

Gearing business activities towards climate change will become increasingly important from a strategic perspective in the medium term. In addition to sharp rises in temperature, more frequent extreme weather events such as flooding may have an impact on the operating business. For example, higher temperatures cause both recyclates and recycled raw materials (sorting fractions) to degrade more quickly, which may result in quality complaints and increased difficulties in marketing products. Higher temperatures also cause an increase in working temperatures in administrative and operating units, which may have an adverse impact on employee health in the long run.

Several sites are potentially at risk of flooding due to sealed surfaces, insufficient drainage, poor surface water runoff handling, and proximity to natural bodies of water. The company was required to order initiatives to secure some of its business premises during the period under review.

Regional extreme weather events may also have a massive impact on sales opportunities for the material flows generated. During the reporting period, for example, flooding in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg triggered an exceptional situation, which meant that incineration pathways could not accept mixed plastic fractions due to the clean-up of private households after the flood. This shortage of capacity caused a strained situation in sales of the aforementioned fractions across Germany.

The underlying business model is unlikely to need to be adapted as climate change progresses.

No climate risk analysis or resilience analysis was carried out as part of the DMA. A climate risk analysis to identify and manage physical and transition risks is planned for early 2026, the results of which will be used to validate the double materiality assessment.

Proposed approach:

Define system limits, time horizons and scenarios, and screen climate risks
Identify and assess physical and transition climate risks for selected scenarios
Derive adaptation measures for relevant climate risks
Calculate expected financial impacts of climate risks

ESRS E1 – Impact, risk and opportunity management

ESRS E1-2 – Policies related to climate change mitigation and adaptation

As the Interzero Group's business model is based on managing raw materials in the loop, it generally contributes to climate change mitigation and protecting resources. However, the company’s operating activities in particular are dependent upon available energy sources. As a result, continually analysing existing energy infrastructure and purchasing energy from climate-neutral sources is of strategic relevance. Interzero regularly reviews the extent to which it can use climate-neutral energy sources and how it can improve the energy efficiency of its business premises. In particular, the company’s energy-intensive sites are certified in accordance with ISO 50001, which means they carry out systematic energy management to continually improve energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption (certificates can be found here: Download-Center | Interzero - zero waste solutions).

Interzero wants to play its part in limiting global warming and conserving natural resources. The company achieves this by providing products and services to customers that save emissions and resources on the one hand, and by continuously reducing its own environmental footprint on the other. In order to live up to this claim, Interzero in its sustainability strategy committed to calculating its corporate carbon footprint (CCF) regularly, reducing its greenhouse gas emissions continuously and implementing site-specific optimisation measures.

In 2017, Interzero used this CCF to formulate a climate strategy and define goals, which are to be reviewed, updated and integrated in its corporate strategy in 2025. The preparation of a transition plan for climate change mitigation is planned for the second half of 2025.

ESRS E1-3 – Actions and resources in relation to climate change policies

Interzero is systematically uncovering potential energy savings and implementing suitable measures to continually reduce energy demand and thereby reduce its ecological footprint (see also Sustainability programme).

Energy efficiency / plants

At its production sites in particular, Interzero consistently implements measures to reduce its energy consumption, reduce associated emissions and mitigate the risk of rising energy prices. Projects are assessed in a structured way and progress is documented as part of the company's ISO 50001 (energy management) certification. Actions implemented in 2024 included switching from diesel to electric forklift trucks, recovering heat from equipment for heating or drying purposes, and reducing compressed air leaks.
Procedures and checklists for shutting down all equipment that can be switched off help reduce plant energy consumption. Other measures include installing high-efficiency compressed air units equipped with smart controllers, analysing and reducing usage peaks, switching off equipment at night, using more electronic electricity meters in (online) monitoring, replacing fluorescent tubes with LEDs, deploying motion detectors and reducing the air conditioning levels in the data centre.

E-mobility

The company continued to make progress in switching its vehicle fleet to e-mobility during the period under review, with company car users now able to opt for fully electric vehicles.

Renewable energy

Interzero is gradually switching to certified green electricity from renewable energy sources. In 2024, renewable energy sources accounted for around 33 per cent of the total amount of electricity purchased. According to the electricity supplier’s emission factor (407g CO₂/kWh), this corresponds to a saving of around 9,185.7 tonnes of CO₂e. In 2023, the share of green electricity was only approximately 301 MWh – or 0.5 per cent of electricity consumption, equivalent to a saving of around 122.4 tonnes of CO₂e.
Using roof-mounted photovoltaic systems to generate their own climate-neutral electricity is an obvious solution for companies running energy-intensive production processes. However, repeated checks have shown that meeting specific requirements such as fire protection regulations, insurance provisions and structural prerequisites involves significant financial outlay. For this reason, it has not yet been possible to implement this measure.

Supplier selection

The selection of suppliers is decentralised within individual business units. In addition to considering economic ESG factors, the individuals tasked with this selection process also take certifications, emissions levels and/or the vehicle fleet emission standard or key HR figures into account. We intend to place a greater emphasis on emissions within the supply chain and define parameters for the selection process as part of our revised sustainability strategy.

Environmentally aware behaviour

Interzero generally encourages environmentally aware and climate-conscious behaviour from all of its employees by actively communicating projects and climate change mitigation actions within the Group. The aim of this is to raise awareness of these issues among employees and work together to reduce the company's carbon emissions and increase energy efficiency.

Measuring the climate change mitigation impact of recycling

Each year, Interzero commissions the Fraunhofer UMSICHT Institute to conduct its ‘resources SAVED by recycling’ study to identify and tangibly demonstrate the environmental benefits of recycling. According to this study, Interzero saved more than 11.1 million tonnes of primary raw materials in Germany, Austria, Poland, Italy and Slovenia in 2023 alone thanks to its closed-loop management of about 2.5 million tonnes of recyclables. Interzero’s activities also avoided around 1.2 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions – a figure equivalent to the carbon emissions from the annual textiles purchased by 4.5 million EU citizens. The figures for 2024 will be published in October 2025.
The company currently analyses the recycling loops for 28 different types of material each year, with over 10,000 customers receiving individual savings certificates to support their sustainability communications based on the results of this analysis. The company plans to expand its material flows and scope of analysis and is steadily implementing this.

The energy consumption of each site was recorded, managed and evaluated in detail with the Executive Management team on an annual basis in 2023 and 2024. From 2025 onwards, Interzero will draft a transition plan for climate change mitigation and prioritise the decarbonisation lever as part of this process, based on an analysis of the current corporate carbon footprint (CCF).

ESRS E1 – Metrics and targets

ESRS E1-4 – Targets related to climate change mitigation and adaptation

Interzero has defined three climate targets as part of its climate strategy formulated in 2017:

By 2025, Interzero will reduce its site emissions (Scope 1 and 2) by 50 per cent compared with the 2015 baseline.
As regards logistics, Interzero is continuously looking for areas of potential optimisation, for example by using electric vehicles. A concrete reduction target for logistics-related emissions is being planned.
The company aims to save at least 5.5 million tonnes of raw materials and 800,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases annually with its services in order to make an even bigger contribution to the circular economy and to reducing emissions. With savings of 11.2 million tonnes of primary resources and 1.2 million tonnes of CO₂e achieved in 2023, these targets were exceeded by a large margin.

Reduction of site emissions (Scope 1 and 2)

	*2015 (base year) (t CO₂e)**	2024 (t CO₂e)	Change from base year (%)
Scope 1: Direct GHG emissions	5,189.6	4,846.1	-6.6
Scope 2: Indirect GHG emissions	21,979.7	17,511.3	-20.3
Total	27,169.2	22,357.4	-17.7

*The current baseline was set when the first rebaselining was carried out in 2019. As the company's organisational structure has changed significantly since then, including additions to the scope of consolidation, disposals and site closures, Interzero expects the baseline to change by well over 10 per cent. With this in mind, we are aiming to carry out a rebaselining in 2025. The degree of target attainment shown is based on the baseline of the corporate structure in 2019 and is therefore only representative to a limited extent.

Compared with the 2015 reference year (27,169 tonnes of CO₂e), Interzero reduced its Scope 1 and 2 emissions in 2024 to 22,357 tonnes of CO₂e on a like-for-like basis even though its business grew by 17.7 per cent. Since Interzero did not report market-based Scope 2 emissions in the base year 2015, emission reductions for Scope 2 are disclosed based on location-based emissions only.

The deviation form the target in 2024 is mainly due to external conditions and corporate priorities that influenced the timing of the measures. Interzero expects that revising its sustainability strategy and rebaselining based on the current scope of consolidation will improve its ability to plan its emission reduction targets.

Outlook

Interzero will draft a transition plan for climate change mitigation in 2025. After reorganisation and rebaselining, the company will strive to set specific targets, pursue measures and document its progress with a sustainability strategy tailored to its current corporate framework.

In this context, it wil also identify key decarbonisation levers. While the company expects to reduce the majority of its Scope 2 emissions by using green electricity, this depends on the availability of resources. The expected decarbonisation levers also include switching the vehicle fleet (company cars and pool vehicles) to electric vehicles. This initiative will allow Interzero to reduce its Scope 1 emissions. However, the company believes this will only make a small contribution to overall emissions, as 80 per cent of its emissions are generated by diesel consumption at its production sites – and thus by its machinery. While electric alternatives do not currently exist for all of this machinery, Interzero regularly reviews potential uses for alternative drive systems.

ESRS E1-5 – Energy consumption and mix

Energy consumption and mix

	2023	2024
Total energy consumption (MWh)	86,038.8	86,693.8
Total fossil energy consumption (MWh)	82,659.7	62,278.2
Fuel consumption from coal and coal products (MWh)	0	0
Fuel consumption from crude oil and petroleum products (MWh)	17,721.6	16,673.8
Fuel consumption from natural gas (MWh)	1,891.6	1,849.4
Fuel consumption from other fossil sources (MWh)	0	0
Consumption of purchased or acquired electricity, heat, steam, or cooling from fossil sources (MWh)	63,046.5	43,755.0
Share of fossil sources in total energy consumption (%)	96.1	71.8
Consumption from nuclear sources (MWh)	3,077.4	1,835.7
Share of consumption from nuclear sources in total energy consumption (%)	3.6	2.1
Total renewable energy consumption (MWh)	301.7	22,579.9
Fuel consumption for renewable sources, including biomass (MWh)	0.8	10.6
Consumption of purchased or acquired electricity, heat, steam, and cooling from renewable sources (MWh)	300.9	22,569.3
Consumption of self-generated non-fuel renewable energy (MWh)	0	0
Share of renewable sources in total energy consumption (%)	0.4	26.0

Total energy consumption rose by 0.8 per cent between 2023 and 2024. There were no significant changes to the production sites during these years. The energy sources most relevant for Interzero are electricity, diesel, gas and district heating.

Energy consumption is recorded at the company’s sites and is based almost exclusively on utility bill documents. Consumption from nuclear sources is calculated based on the proportion of nuclear energy in the supplier's energy mix. The applicable national energy mix is used for calculations at sites where the energy mix is not known (e.g. as subtenants).

Own energy production

Interzero did not produce any energy of its own in the reporting period.

Energy intensity per net revenue

	2023	2024
Total energy consumption from activities in high climate impact sectors per net revenue from activities in high climate impact sectors (MWh/€ million)	117.2	109.0

Revenue in high climate impact sectors

	2023	2024
Net revenue from activities in high climate impact sectors used to calculate energy intensity (€)	734,354,386	795,627,044
Net revenue from activities in non-high climate impact sectors (€)	0	0

ESRS E1-6 – Gross Scope 1, 2, 3 and Total GHG emissions

Interzero caused a total of 1,142,428.2 tonnes of CO₂e during the 2024 reporting year. Scope 1 emissions amounted to 4,846.1 tonnes of CO₂e, a decline of 5.6 per cent compared to the previous year. Interzero did not include biogenic Scope 1 carbon emissions in its CCF.

Scope 2 emissions (market-based) totalled 14,152.2 tonnes of CO₂e due to the use of certificates for renewable energy.

Scope 3 emissions amounted to 1,123,429.8 tonnes of CO₂e in the 2024 reporting year, a figure that was significantly higher than the Scope 3 emissions in past reports and accounted for over 98 per cent of Interzero's total emissions in 2024.

Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG emissions)

	2023	2024	Change from 2023 (%)
Gross Scope 1 GHG emissions
Gross Scope 1 GHG emissions (t CO₂e)	5,135.6	4,846.1	-5.6
Percentage of gross Scope 1 GHG emissions from regulated emission trading schemes (%)	0	0	n/a
Gross Scope 2 GHG emissions
Gross location-based Scope 2 GHG emissions (t CO₂e)	25,274.4	17,511.3	-30.7
Gross market-based Scope 2 GHG emissions (t CO₂e)	22,110.3	14,152.2	-36.0
Gross Scope 3 GHG emissions
Gross Scope 3 GHG emissions (t CO₂e)	1,087,207.0	1,123,429.8	+3.3
1 Purchased goods and services	35,816.1	47,630	+33.0
2 Capital goods	5,802.1	3,105.0	-46.5
3 Fuel and energy-related activities (not included in Scope1 or Scope 2)	9,063.7	7,069.2	-22.0
4 Upstream transportation and distribution	92,191.6	96,660.2	+4.8
5 Waste generated in operations	10,611.5	8,969.7	-15.5
6 Business travel	1,353.6	1,087.2	-19.7
7 Employee commuting	1,755.7	1,800.6	+2.6
9 Downstream transportation	22,519.9	32,841.3	+45.8
10 Processing of sold products	26,743.5	44,666.9	+67.0
11 Use of sold products	876,063.7	870,465.3	-0.6
12 End-of-life treatment of sold products	5,285.4	9,134.5	+72.8
Gross total GHG emissions (t CO₂e)
Gross total location-based GHG emissions (t CO₂e)	1,117,617.0	1,145,787.2	+2.5
Gross total market-based GHG emissions (t CO₂e)	1,114,452.9	1,142,428.2	+2.5

GHG intensity per net revenue

	2023	2024
Total GHG emissions (location-based) per net revenue (t CO₂e/€ million)	1,521.90	1,440.11
Total GHG emissions (market-based) per net revenue (t CO₂e/€ million)	1,517.60	1,435.88

Corporate carbon footprint 2024 by emission type¹

¹ Rounded values, minor differences in totals are possible.

In 2024, Interzero’s location-based GHG emissions, including emissions from business travel, totalled 23,445 tonnes of CO₂e, which represents a year-on-year decline of around 8,319 tonnes or 26.2 per cent. Following the lifting of pandemic-related restrictions, emissions from air and rail travel increased significantly, and many sites consumed more electricity due to a resurgence in office occupancy. Diesel and gas consumption continued to decline year on year – by 5.9 per cent for diesel and 2.2 per cent for gas.

In 2024, Interzero made 22,569 MWh – or 33.1 per cent of its total electricity consumption climate-neutral by acquiring green electricity certificates. According to the electricity supplier’s emission factor (407g CO₂/kWh), purchasing green electricity corresponds to a saving of around 9,185.7 tonnes of CO₂e. In 2023, the share of green electricity was only approximately 301 MWh – or 0.5 per cent – of electricity consumption, representing a saving of around 122.4 tonnes of CO₂e. The significant difference in 2023 reflects the challenging economic situation. Interzero's ability to implement measures such as purchasing green electricity generally depends heavily on the availability and allocation of resources.

One key driver of Scope 3 emissions is the first-time full reporting of the thermal treatment of sorting residues from our sorting plants for lightweight packaging. The resulting emissions comprised roughly 70 per cent of Scope 3 emissions in both 2023 and 2024.

In addition, the companies not incorporated into Scope 3 in the last Sustainability Report were also included in 2023 and 2024. We also significantly improved the quality and level of detail of data collected across all categories for our latest calculation of Scope 3 emissions. This is particularly evident in the activity-based scope of calculation in Scopes 3.4 and 3.9.

Calculation definitions and methodologies

The calculations of Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions are based almost exclusively on primary data. Scope 3 emissions were calculated based on activity as far as possible; they include all upstream and downstream activities along Interzero's value chain. Unless specified otherwise, the calculations follow the same reporting boundaries as those for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions.

We followed the requirements and guidelines of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol when selecting emission factors for our Scope 3 emissions calculations. We used the following emission factors for the Scope 1 and Scope 2 calculations: German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) 2024 and Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) 2024 emission factors for electricity, and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) / Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) 2024 conversion factors for all other energy sources. For Scope 3, we used DEFRA / BEIS 2024 spend-based emission factors and ecoinvent v3.11 and DEFRA / BEIS 2024 volume-based emission factors. We also used emission factors from the ‘resources SAVED by recycling’ study published by the Fraunhofer UMSICHT Institute for the transport of secondary raw materials.

Relevant Scope 3 categories

Scope 3.1 and 3.2: These emissions are calculated based on the GHG Protocol using a spend-based approach. This involves multiplying expenditure items related to goods and services in the profit and loss account by the corresponding DEFRA / BEIS emission factors.

Scope 3.3: This calculation is based on annual energy consumption data used to identify Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. The consumption data is multiplied by the respective emission factors for upstream activities. Current DEFRA / BEIS emission factors for gas, district heating and diesel are used as sources for the emission factors, while VDA emission factors are taken into account to calculate upstream emissions for electricity.

Scope 3.4: As we manage several thousand service providers in the circular economy, we rely almost exclusively on activity data to calculate emissions in what is the second-largest Scope 3 category for Interzero. This data is then multiplied by DEFRA / BEIS emission factors. All entities with an activity-based Scope 3.4 calculation were included in the Scope 3.1 calculation.

Scope 3.5: This calculation is based on tonnes of waste generated per type of waste and the respective waste treatment method, cubic metres of waste water generated, and relevant emission factors from DEFRA / BEIS and ecoinvent sources. Site waste that is expected to be recycled is rated as 0 in accordance with GHG Protocol requirements.

Scope 3.6: All of our German companies book business trips via a central booking platform. The consolidated emissions data from this platform is broken down to reach an average emissions figure per FTE and multiplied by the total number of all employees to include all companies in our travel emissions. For the first time, travel emissions now include emissions from overnight hotel stays and train travel as well as flight emissions.

We reported around 474 tonnes of CO₂e in Scope 3.6 in the 2022 Sustainability Report. This included an initially overestimated flat-rate figure of 350 tonnes of CO₂e, which was adjusted to a more realistic 10 tonnes of CO₂e. As a result, Scope 3.6 included around 135 tonnes of CO₂e from travel in 2022. However, this figure of 135 tonnes of CO₂e did not include any emissions from overnight hotel stays and train travel.

Scope 3.7: This category is based on the number of employees with an average distance to the workplace and an average attendance rate, and is calculated using distance-based emission factors from DEFRA / BEIS (WTT).

Scope 3.9: Interzero moves large quantities of secondary raw materials and accounts for transport to recyclers almost exclusively on an activity basis. The source for emission factors is DEFRA / BEIS (WTW).

Scope 3.10: Further processing of sold products such as plastic recyclates recythen and procyclen as well as sold secondary raw materials are represented in this category using ecoinvent emission factors.

Scope 3.11: As well as emissions generated from the use of sold IT hardware and vertical baling presses, the emissions we recognise in this category include those from the incineration of secondary raw materials that end up as sorting residues at our sorting plants for dual system (yellow bin) recycling and cannot be effectively recycled. The resulting emissions are calculated using ecoinvent emission factors.

Scope 3.12: In this category, we account for an assumed end-of-life scenario for our sold raw materials and IT hardware as well as the landfilling of collected and otherwise non-recyclable waste using ecoinvent emission factors.

ESRS E1-7 – GHG removals and GHG mitigation projects financed through carbon credits

In addition to providing a unique habitat for animals and plants, moorland also plays an important role in protecting our climate. Germany's moors store at least as much carbon as its forests, even though moorland accounts for just five per cent of the country’s land mass while forests make up around 30 per cent. However, if they are allowed to dry out – an issue that affects around 95 per cent of German moorland – the carbon stored is released in the form of carbon dioxide. As a result, moor soils are responsible for more than seven per cent of total emissions in Germany each year.

Interzero is committed to restoring these habitats by rewetting the moors, thereby helping to protect our climate and maintain biodiversity. The Venner Moor moorland protection project received EUR 30,000 in funding in 2023, a figure that enabled 10,000 square metres (1 hectare) of moorland to be restored. In 2024, Interzero provided EUR 60,000 of support for the project to restore a further 2 hectares of moorland, saving an average of around 20 tonnes of CO₂e per hectare per year.

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