2023.04.11 Global Environment
Move for our Planet
"The Right Move for Our Planet"
Hyundai Motor Group moves in the right direction for environmental sustainability.
The clean and sustainable environment envisioned by HMG is both a duty to future generations and a right for humanity and the Earth. Thinking first and foremost about the environment, HMG strives to realize a better world for the future by developing eco-friendly products and services through technological innovation.
With the aim of realizing carbon neutrality, the Group is striving to change the future energy paradigm, by expanding renewable energy and establishing a hydrogen society. Efforts are also directed towards protecting the precious natural capital of the planet and creating an eco-friendly workplace to realize a sustainable society.
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Carbon Neutrality & Energy Transition
Hyundai Motor Group recognizes the importance of carbon neutrality in protecting the global environment and ensuring a beautiful nature for future generations. Through various initiatives such as reducing and offsetting greenhouse gases emissions, investing in renewable energy generation and production, transitioning to electric vehicles, and achieving the hydrogen vision for realizing a hydrogen society, the Group will contribute not only to its value chain but also to the global energy transition in response to the climate crisis.
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Circularity
Circularity
HMG aspires to move beyond the “linear Economy,” where resources are simply extracted, produced, consumed, and discarded, towards a ‘Circular Economy’ where resources are continuously circulated through regeneration and recycling. The Group will strive to enhance the efficiency of resources input throughout the product lifecycle stages of "planning-design-procurement-production-distribution" and to increase the recovery and recycling rates of products after use.
Clean Tech Products&Service
HMG aims to fulfill its role as a responsible global corporate citizen by expanding eco-friendly products and services for customers, based on its differentiated technological innovation. Focusing on the active electrification of internal combustion engine vehicles into EVs, HEVs, PHEVs, FCEVs, etc., the Group will consistently expand its lineup of eco-friendly products and service across key industries within the group, including construction, transportation, and finance.
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Operational Eco-Efficiency
Hyundai Motor Group will do its best to reduce the emission of air pollution, water pollution, and hazardous chemicals, and protect the safety and health of its customers and employees. Particularly, through proactive compliance with environmental regulations in different countries, development of new technologies to minimize negative environmental impacts, and efficiency improvements in production and transportation processes, the group strives not only to enhance business competitiveness but also to take a leading role in establishing eco-friendly workplaces.
Natural Capital Conservation
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HMG understands the necessity of natural capital as a indispensable safety net for diverse life forms on Earth, fostering harmonious coexistence and the flourishing of natural ecosystems. Hyundai Motor Group is committed to establishing systems to mitigate both the biodiversity impacts of its business operations and the adverse effects generated by its business partners.
HMG Sustainability Report