The Unipol Group to participate in the event "M’illumino di meno"
“M'illumino di meno” (i.e. turn down the lights), the awareness-raising campaign on energy saving and sustainable lifestyles that the RAI Radio2 program “Caterpillar” promotes will be held again for the fourteenth year on Friday, 23 February.
The Unipol Group has been participating in the initiative since 2005 and this year, on that day, the corporate signs of the main offices and of all Unipol Banca branches will be switched off starting at 6pm.
Also CUBO, the cultural and multimedia space located inside the Unipol headquarters, will be switching off its light bars placed in Piazza Sergio Vieira de Mello and corporate signs along Via Stalingrado.
The 2018 edition aims, in particular, at enhancing the beauty of walking and going on foot, inviting people to change pace to save the Earth beneath our feet in a symbolic and concrete way. The Unipol Group has for years been engaged in the promotion of sustainable mobility among its employees: it has set up 10 Home-Work Journey Plans involving 40 offices where a management system has been activated to promote sustainable mobility under framework agreements with public transport companies, used by over 1,600 employees today; it has developed bicycle mobility actions, such as the construction of 4 bike stations for employees supplying about 70 electric pedal-assist bicycles; it has started bike sharing partnerships with the Municipalities of San Donato Milanese and Turin, in addition to offering a car-pooling and car-sharing system, which can be used both for the home-work journey and when traveling on business.
The fight against climate change remains central in the 2018 edition of “M'illumino di meno”. This is an issue to which the Unipol Group has been committed for years through a series of activities and important decisions aimed at protecting the environment: subscribing to the Paris Pledge for Action to support the emission reduction targets set at COP21; obtaining the ISO 50001 certification of the 19 main offices to monitor their energy efficiency; setting stringent targets in its three-year Plan for the reduction of emissions per capita by 15%, in regard of which the company reached the target of 12% in the first two years.