Carrying out all its activities in line with sustainability principles, TEMSA has become a UN Global Compact signatory. TEMSA aims to make its social, economic, and environmental commitments more systematic by joining the UN Global Compact.

 

TEMSA, one of the world's leading bus and midibus manufacturers, has become a signatory to the UN Global Compact to accelerate its sustainability journey to reduce environmental impacts, benefit society and create value for its employees.

Introduced in 2000, the UN Global Compact is the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative with more than 15,000 companies based in more than 160 countries and over 5,000 off-premises signatories and 69 Local Networks. By taking part in the UN Global Compact, TEMSA has universally adopted its operations and strategies in the fields of human rights, labor standards, the environment, and the fight against corruption. It is committed to harmonizing the ten principles and supporting the sustainable development goals in line with these objectives. TEMSA, which has become a part of a global movement comprising sustainable companies and stakeholders, as a UN Global Compact signatory, assumes a shared responsibility to attain a better world with an approach based on sustainability principles.

MORE THAN HALF OF BUS PRODUCTION WILL BE ELECTRIC

One of the most important items in the sustainability agenda for TEMSA, which believes that successes in the field of sustainability will be decisive in the future of companies, is its responsibilities toward the environment. In this context, the company focuses on reducing the deepening effects of the climate crisis, energy efficiency for low-carbon growth and the use of renewable energy With the vision of "Smart Mobility", which it defines as sustainable and smart mobility, the company tries to reduce its environmental impact by reducing the carbon footprint of its products with electric vehicles and battery technologies Today, TEMSA, is positioned as the leading player of the market in target geographies.
The company, which led Turkey's goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions to zero for all new trucks and buses at the COP26 Climate Summit, plans to meet more than half of its total bus volume from electric vehicles in 2025.

 

“WE ARE EXPANDING AND DEEPENING OUR SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS”

Expressing that by participating in the UN Global Compact, TEMSA, carry their sustainability efforts that they continue within the scope of the United Nations Sustainable Development Targets to an international scale TEMSA CEO, Tolga Kaan Doğancıoğlu, stated:“As a company that has gained the awareness of sustainability many years ago and is operating with the principle of responsibility, we are proud of being a part of the UN Global Compact. TEMSA's experience, technological know-how, and infrastructure, particularly in electrification, will pioneer the journey to a better future. As a company that exports electric vehicles to Sweden, the very first country with the highest awareness of electrification in the world today, and that puts its electric vehicles with its own battery systems on the roads in Silicon Valley, which is the heart of technology in the world, the things we have so far done is just the beginning for us. With new markets, new technologies, new projects, TEMSA is one of the flag carriers of electrification, which is the most important element of zero emission life not only in our country but all over the world. As we move forward with a better and more sustainable life mission, we are now expanding our efforts by being part of the UN Global Compact."