Viva con Agua
The non-profit association from St. Pauli campaigns worldwide for clean drinking water, supported by more than 10,000 volunteer supporters. We source our bottled water exclusively from Viva con Agua.
Sustainability
We live sustainability.
Bus logistics is our business, and that's exactly where our contribution begins: anyone who puts groups on a bus takes cars off the road. The rest we tackle step by step, honestly and verifiably.
Off the road and onto the bus, instead of fine words
A bus trip is more than a sociable day out. It is the most climate-friendly way to move many people together. That's why we want to keep increasing the number of buses, e-buses and vans we deploy, and replace as many individual car journeys as possible.
We don't promise anything here that we can't back up. On this page you'll find both: what we already do and what we're still working on.
30 g
CO₂ per person & kilometre
That's how little a long-distance coach emits. A car emits more than five times as much.
Federal Environment Agency · 2024
Bus and rail lead the field
CO₂ emissions per person and kilometre in long-distance travel. The coach plays in the same league as the train and takes your group right to the door. Car and plane trail far behind.
−82 %
CO₂ compared with the car
−90 %
compared with the plane
Coach −82 % vs. car 30 g
For comparison
Train 26 g
Car 164 g
Plane 290 g
The longer the bar, the more CO₂. The coach starts off the cleanest.
CO₂ calculator
How much CO₂ does your group save by bus?
Need the figures for a tender? Send us an email.
Coach 675 kg CO₂e
Cars ≈ 32 cars 3,690 kg CO₂e
Your group saves
3,015 kg CO₂e
That is around 3 tonnes of CO₂e less than by car.
How we calculate this
- Basis: official emission factors of the German Environment Agency (UBA), comparison of passenger transport modes 2024 (TREMOD 6.71B): coach (scheduled long-distance bus, 53 percent occupancy) 30 g CO₂e per passenger-kilometre, car (average, 1.4 people per car) 164 g CO₂e per passenger-kilometre.
- Greenhouse gases as CO₂ equivalents, including the provision of energy carriers.
- The number of cars shown is based on the average occupancy of 1.4 people per car.
- The bus value is a conservative approximation: a fully booked charter coach usually performs even better per person.
Binding, not non-committal
Member of the UN Global Compact
In October 2022 we joined the world's largest initiative for responsible corporate governance. In doing so, we commit to firmly anchoring ten universal principles in our work, verifiably and with an annual report.
Human rights
Labour standards
Environment
Anti-corruption
The principles are rooted in the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Sustainability doesn't stop at the bus
As a young company, we were able to set up a lot of things correctly from the start. It's the everyday things we pay attention to:
- We work largely paper-free, and invoices go out digitally only.
- Our electricity is green power supplied by naturstrom hamburg.
- The office is lit exclusively by energy-saving LED bulbs.
- Drinks come in glass bottles, among others from Viva con Agua and fritz-kola.
- Water comes from our own dispenser, and every colleague has their own glass bottle.
- Our coffee comes from certified organic farming, and the machine is ISO 9001 certified.
- We buy consumables from sustainable production.
That's not enough for us yet. This list keeps growing.
Partnerships we genuinely stand behind
Hamburg Eco-Partnership
Since September 2020 we have been an active member of this initiative of Hamburg's business community and Senate. The aim is more sustainable, environmentally compatible business, to which we contribute with concrete measures.
Assessed, not asserted
EcoVadis Bronze 2025
In the assessment in July 2025 we received the Bronze medal from EcoVadis. This puts us among the top 35 percent of companies assessed over the past year.
And to stay honest: we have improved, for example through clearer policies and a management system for labour and human rights. But we're not done yet. So far we have not, for instance, published our own sustainability report. We're working on it.
Questions about sustainability at Hanse Mondial? Write to us at info@hansemondial.de.
Move a group, save cars
Tell us about your plans. We'll find the right bus and plan the trip so it works out, for you and for the climate.