In order to achieve a comprehensive improvement in our operational carbon footprint, we strive continuously to improve and complete the database of our production and logistics emissions. We established comprehensive management systems for our production operations many years ago. These cover both our own carbon dioxide emissions and the emissions resulting from the generation of energy bought from third parties.

Measurement of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with logistics, the transport of our products or with business trips is far more difficult, however, as the system boundaries, basic data, methods and procedures are much less well defined. For example, the fuel consumption of each truck, its capacity utilization, and each traveled kilometer must be known exactly in order to calculate the transport emissions. Estimates for 2008, based on average values, emission factors, and secondary data from existing life cycle databases, indicate that the annual carbon dioxide emissions attributable to the transport of our products are of the order of 500,000 metric tons. For business trips we estimate a figure of about 150,000 metric tons per year. Both of these values are for Henkel worldwide without the National Starch businesses. We are looking closely at the development, transport and storage of our products, as well as business trips and company cars, in a determined effort to find ways to achieve an across-the-board improvement in our operational carbon footprint.