We want to reduce our carbon intensity and our carbon footprint. In May 2007, we established a target for reducing our specific carbon dioxide emissions: by 2030, we aim to halve the amount of CO₂ we emit for each kilowatt-hour of electricity we generate compared with 1990 levels.
Five Key Areas of Our Climate Protection Strategy
To achieve this, in May 2007 we defined our groupwide Climate Protection Strategy. We factor climate-protection considerations into all our operational and strategic decisions. We also evaluate all significant capital investments and acquisitions for their impact on our carbon footprint.

Our climate protection strategy has five key areas:

• expanding our renewables capacity  
• enhancing the thermal efficiency of our conventional generation fleet
• deploying CCS technology in coal-fired power plants
• increasing our investments in the research and development of climate-friendly technologies
• playing a greater role in championing nuclear power