OMV Petrom, the largest energy company in South-Eastern Europe, launches the OMV Climate Neutral card in Romania, with the help of which companies can actively contribute to climate action and to offset carbon emissions associated with fuel consumption. This option, a premiere for the Romanian fuel market, is made available through ClimatePartner, an international provider of solutions for corporate climate actions, the company announced.

OMV Climate Neutral works like a normal fuel card, giving companies the opportunity to offset at a fixed price of 0.023 lei/liter for gasoline and 0.027 lei/liter for diesel the carbon emissions produced during transport, to support carbon offset projects in the ClimatePartner portfolio.

Each user of an OMV Climate Neutral card will be able to check, at any time, the volume of carbon emissions that has been offset on the ClimatePartner partner portal. The card can be ordered online through the OMV Romania virtual store.

Customers will receive a certificate confirming the contribution by offsetting the carbon emissions. This emissions compensation mechanism is based on the standards imposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

“By launching the OMV Climate Neutral Card, we offer our customers the opportunity to contribute directly to offsetting carbon emissions. It is an approach that complements our measures and objectives at company level. We constantly invest throughout the production chain to ensure the quality of our products and reduce the carbon footprint, starting with our production operations, continuing with those in the refinery and those of distribution stations, such as electrical recharging points or photovoltaic panels,” said Radu Căprău, member of the Management Board of OMV Petrom, responsible for the Downstream Oil activity.

Through sustained investments, OMV Petrom reduced the carbon emissions of its operations by 22% in 2019, compared to 2010.