Over the last ten years and more, Volkswagen and Germany’s largest environmental organisation, the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), have built up a unique cooperation based on three components: a) advice, b) dialogue, and c) projects. In the course of this cooperation, the success of which is founded on the mutual respect of existing differences of interest, we raise society’s awareness of environmental and sustainability issues, for example through jointly-run fuel-saver courses. The efficient fleet management project run by Volkswagen Leasing GmbH, meanwhile, is a success in both ecological and a commercial terms. It involves using the Group’s most fuel-efficient models in each case. Here, cutting CO2 emissions goes hand-in-hand with cost savings for the fleet operators. The project also helps to fund a moorland protection initiative, which is a particularly efficient form of climate protection, given that moorlands are significant carbon sinks. 
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