Sustainable mobility - strategic directions for 2025

Since the beginnings of the Company’s, Autonom’s vision has been to serve as an authentic business model and to have a positive impact on society and the environment. Involvement with our communities is an integral part of our organizational culture.

In the 10 years of activity of Autonom Foundation, through which we develop educational and environmental projects, we managed to get involved in more than 840 projects in our communities. Because we all want to contribute to the development of education, our team of volunteers is, in fact, made up of Autonom Group’s employees. Last year alone, the foundation carried out 202 different education projects, with over 300 Autonom volunteers, for 4500 beneficiaries, in over 88 localities. In addition, our pilot program, Devino AutonOM, developed by the foundation, reached many schools and children and got more than 473 volunteers involved, who held workshops in schools and high schools around the country.

In 2021, we developed and published our Sustainability Strategy for the coming years, putting an emphasis on the environmental component which represents an important direction for our actions and decisions.

Strategic Sustainability directions of Autonom Services

Autonom’s Sustainability Strategy is aligned with the performance matrix of its organizational culture and with the environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles. It is built around three pillars: “environment”, “people and community” and “sustainable business and governance”.

Regarding the environment, our attention is turned to the responsible consumption of the resources required to conduct our activities. The need for this is confirmed by the fact that the emissions generated by the operating fleet (operating lease and rent a car), calculated as CCF, although indirect for Autonom, account for 99% of the Company’s total emissions.

Therefore, our main priority is to reduce the carbon emissions of the operating fleet by 25% by 2025 and by 51% by 2030, in particular by increasing the share of green cars in our operating fleet.

The second important direction for us is the people and the community. Since the beginnings of the Company, our desire has been to develop a framework in which to enable people to evolve every day and make a positive change in the communities where we are present, by supporting education and by reducing our impact on the environment. With a view to carrying out our educational projects, we set out to invest a minimum of 2% of our net profit, while for the personal development of our employees, we aim at providing at least 50 hours of annual training per employee.

Last but not least, we want to build a sustainable future together with our partners. Therefore, the involvement of all categories of stakeholders in joint projects in the area of sustainability, customer satisfaction (measured by NPS) and the increase in the number of digitized processes are some of our clear actions at this stage.

Starting from the Sustainability Strategy, in which we defined the materiality and relevance of the identified matters, the main measure foreseen is the increase of the share of “Green” cars in our operating fleet and the promotion of environmentally-friendly vehicles.

The indicator chosen in monitoring carbon emissions at the level of the operating fleet, aligned with the European Directives on transport, is “average WLTP CO2”. For this indicator we calculated the carbon footprint for the last 3 years and set medium-term (2025) and long-term (2030) targets.

The results for 2022 can be found in the second Sustainability Report that will be published by Autonom and available here: https://www.autonom.com/sustainability

Also here you can find more information about Autonom’s Sustainability Strategy and further updates.