Kia Corporation and Hyundai Motor Company have announced the development of an Integrated Greenhouse Gas Information System (IGIS). The state-of-the-art platform is designed to monitor, quantify and manage carbon emissions throughout a vehicle’s life cycle. It uses the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, which enables systematic assessment of emissions and accurate and consistent data collection. IGIS monitors energy consumption at the companies’ global manufacturing facilities, with comprehensive logging of carbon management activities. The system also facilitates the collection of LCA data from supplier factories and components, which is required to calculate the carbon footprint and forecast greenhouse gas emissions across the supply chain. To ensure data integrity and security, IGIS also uses blockchain technology, which makes it difficult to tamper or falsify information. The robust system promotes transparent and reliable CO2 management and offers a high level of trustworthiness regarding the accuracy of the data collected.
“In our quest to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045, we are taking a significant step forward with the development of IGIS,” says Eunsook Jin, Executive Vice President and Head of the ICT Division at Kia and Hyundai Motor. “Through IGIS, we are intensifying our efforts to build a responsible value chain. This is a remarkable innovation in the automotive industry.”
After Kia and Hyundai already introduced the Supplier CO2 Emission Monitoring System (SCEMS) on the road to carbon neutrality in 2023, IGIS is intended to optimize data management and increase operational efficiency by integrating existing Kia and Hyundai systems. With the new system, the companies aim to increase their ability to respond quickly to future changes in international environmental regulations and to meet external certifications such as CDP and RE100. It is also intended to facilitate proactive compliance with regulations and underpin companies’ commitment to global sustainability initiatives.
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