Sustainability at ]init[: Environment and digitalization
As specialists in digital solutions, we develop innovations that save paper, travel and time. In addition, we are also striving for more sustainability as a company through fewer business trips and more remote work.
Together with our clients, we implement digital innovations that change society sustainably. We also live digitalization in our company and in our work processes. We allow employees to travel more consciously – and only if it is indispensable. By strengthening remote work, we save travel to the office. Online meetings with our teams or clients have become the norm.
EMAS certification
We have introduced an environmental management system in accordance with EMAS in order to optimally manage our sustainability and environmental protection measures. With the most demanding certification in environmental management, we play a pioneering role within the industry. The EMAS management system provides us with a valuable tool for recording, understanding and shaping the impact of our activities on the environment.
As part of the certification process, we have adopted an environmental policy and an environmental program. Both are publicly available in our environmental statement along with further information. We have involved and trained all employees in its implementation. This enables us not only to reduce harmful effects, but also to increase our positive contribution to the fight against climate change.
Our sustainability measures are having an impact. Whether it's the little things in everyday office life or in large-scale-hosting of our projects - we are systematically reducing our ecological footprint.
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Software? Make it sustainable!
Targeted measures, for example in software development or hosting, can already have a high impact and reduce the emission load of digital products. We summarize our findings in our white paper "Sustainable software development in public administration". In it, we provide answers to the following questions, among others:
- What is sustainable software development?
- Why develop or use sustainable software?
- How do you develop sustainable software?
- How do I measure how sustainable my software is?
- Five simple steps to sustainable software
Download Whitepaper. (Please note: Language is German.)
Energy efficiency in the data center
Due to our high capacities and measures for stability and security, we have a high power consumption in our data center. This is a fact that we have to face up to. But one that we do not simply accept. We are therefore investing significant resources in the development of solutions.
Our data center is one of three reference data centers nationwide with which the Federal Environment Agency is researching the relationship between environmental, energy and cost efficiency in data center operations in the KPI4DCE 2.0 project - this is how we are contributing to the resource-saving operation of websites and portals in the data centers of the future. We strive for particularly high energy efficiency. And researched the so-called rebound effect together with the Öko-Institut e.V. in the MERU project.
Making sustainability measurable
In order to continuously measure the efficiency of our sustainability measures, we have defined various core indicators with regard to our energy and resource consumption, against which we are measured. By independent experts.
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Anne Rudolph
Head of Corporate Communication & Sustainability
+49 30 97006 373