Hexagon invests in sustainability

Hexagon's Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division is committed to caring for the environment. We have had an independent consulting firm calculate our carbon footprint (initially for our business activities in Germany), and as an initial offsetting measure, we are now contributing to a sustainable future through active nature conservation.

Future for bees

Our first measure is investing in keeping bees in harmony. We have adopted three bee colonies from beefuture, and we are providing financial and ideational support for beefuture's initiative to preserve biodiversity. In October 2021, the first harvest of our approximately 120,000 new employees (about 40,000 bees per colony) was handed over packaged in Hexagon-labeled honey jars. The second honey harvest took place in the summer of 2022. We are sharing the sweet gifts with our customers and employees.

In the first three years, Hexagon's beehives found their home near Lake Ammer, southwest of Munich. In May 2023, they moved to the Business Campus Garching near Munich (www.bcmg.businesscampus.de), right next to the building of our German headquarters. Beefuture is responsible for the professional care of the bee colonies and guarantees all beekeeping services, from official registration to species-appropriate overwintering.

Bees are the cornerstone of the survival of our ecosystems. Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or at least in part, on animal pollination, along with more than 75% of the world’s food crops and 35% of global agricultural land. Not only do pollinators contribute directly to food security, but they are key to conserving biodiversity. And the economic value of pollination by bees amounts to hundreds of billions of euros worldwide. Unfortunately, the global bee population has declined by more than half since the 1950s.

Taking action to save the bees is crucial — for both environmental and business reasons.

Bee future. Bee engaged. Bee sustainable.

 

 

 

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