Aston Martin has announced that its Gaydon and St. Athan facilities are now carbon neutral facilities.
The move comes just one year since it announced its 'Racing.Green.'sustainability strategy, builds upon the firm's achievement of having all its manufacturing facilities powered by 100% renewable electricity.
Aston Martin has installed LED lighting at its St. Athan facility, which is additionally set to get new solar panels The additional move to carbon neutrality comes courtesy of the use of solar panels at the historic Aston Martin Works facility and heritage dealership in Newport Pagnell, which already supply 90% of the energy used at the site in the summer months.
In addition to this, plans are also underway to introduce solar panels to the DBX SUV manufacturing plant in St. Athan, which will be capable of generating around 20% of the plant's total annual demand.
Aston Martin has also started working with specialists in carbon market solutions for climate action, Climate Impact Partners, to finance projects which are reducing CO2 emissions while supporting the transition to a low carbon global economy.
The firm is supporting a wind power portfolio project in Turkey, for example, that is already generating approximately 575,000MWh of clean electricity every year to a nation which has seen its infrastructure severely damaged by recent earthquakes.
Aston Martin has additionally installed LED lighting at St. Athan, a move which it states will save over 24,000kg of CO2 emissions every year.
The move comes just one year since it announced its 'Racing.Green.'sustainability strategy, builds upon the firm's achievement of having all its manufacturing facilities powered by 100% renewable electricity.
In addition to this, plans are also underway to introduce solar panels to the DBX SUV manufacturing plant in St. Athan, which will be capable of generating around 20% of the plant's total annual demand.
Aston Martin has also started working with specialists in carbon market solutions for climate action, Climate Impact Partners, to finance projects which are reducing CO2 emissions while supporting the transition to a low carbon global economy.
The firm is supporting a wind power portfolio project in Turkey, for example, that is already generating approximately 575,000MWh of clean electricity every year to a nation which has seen its infrastructure severely damaged by recent earthquakes.
Aston Martin has additionally installed LED lighting at St. Athan, a move which it states will save over 24,000kg of CO2 emissions every year.
