Operating place electricity consumption is the main source of carbon emissions in the life insurance industry. In order to reduce the impact of the operation on the environment and provide a healthier office environment for employees, by saving internal resources, Mercuries Life Insurance reduced energy consumption and environmental pollution. We also reduced the carbon emissions by continuously replacing and cleaning the equipment and using energy-saving devices, such as regularly cleaning main air conditioners, and gradually updating old air conditioner equipment to improve efficiency. At the same time, the new workplace also continues to replace energy-saving lamps and lanterns, and develops different energy-saving ways through parallel technology and management to reduce the excessive use of environmental resources.
Energy saving settings related to green buildings, such as the Neihu enterprise headquarters building, have obtained the "EEWH", and completed the installation of solar photovoltaic panel energy saving equipment. Assuming that the average daily production of 2.5 degrees /KW in northern part of the country, it is expected to provide about 12,154.5 degrees of solar energy per year, with a reduction of 2.3 tons of CO2 per 1KW, and equivalent to a carbon reduction of 30.6 tons; On the other hand, the Wenxin Building in Taichung uses green building materials, such as double glazing and heat-insulating paper and increasing green space, to show an active action of participating in environmental greening and energy saving. Provided that the southern region can generate 3 KWH /KW per day on average, it is expected to provide about 17,509.05 KWH of solar energy per year, which is converted to a reduction of 2.3 tons of CO2 per 1KW. Therefore, it is equivalent to a carbon reduction of 36.8 tons, which can fully supply the electricity needed for landscape of the building.
The Company has also set a water saving target, Continue to publicize water-saving measures to colleagues, and due to the purchase of a new headquarters building in 2022, the water consumption will increase, and due to the slowdown of the epidemic, the number of people and time working from home will be reduced, and the water consumption will increase by 86,200 degrees compared with 2021.
Wastes generated during the operational process of insurance enterprises are relatively simple and have a limited impact on the environment, because the types of waste are only livelihood waste and general resource recycling. Nevertheless, we are still committed to implementing the resource reuse policy in the process of operation to do the best in waste classification and resource recovery. We recycle the papers for reuse, collect the waste batteries centrally, entrust the qualified contractors to handle decoration wastes for disposal, and reuse the workplace potted plants. As for electronic scraps, we extend their useful lifetime or entrust the contractors for recycling and treatment, so as to produce the best possible result through disposing of the waster as properly as possible.