The ZEISS Industrial Quality & Research segment is focusing on aspects like eliminating long transportation routes. The company has production facilities across the globe, meaning it is able to manufacture products near its customers' sites. Air freight is often avoided, with seas and rails being preferred. The products are designed to last for decades. Plus, existing systems can often be retrofitted with new technologies.

The goal is to embed sustainability throughout the company, rendering it measurable and developing it further. ZEISS aims to operate in a carbon-neutral way in its own activities worldwide by 2025 (Scope 1 and 2 emissions). By 2022 its main sites across the globe are set to switch to green power. ZEISS is thus making a contribution to achieving the target set in the Paris Agreement of liming global warming to well below 2°C.

“When sustainability is embraced by every single employee in his/her daily work and it is no longer an ancillary issue that we have to reflect upon, we have done a good job,” says Dr. Nicole Ziegler. The Head of Sustainability and her team
are on a mission to anchor sustainability across the company. ZEISS Sustainability Week was a real milestone on the company’s journey. ZEISS called on its employees around the world to get involved.

The Jeevan Rekha Express, or Lifeline Express, in India is the world's first-ever hospital train that makes stops in remote parts of the country to provide treatment to those in need completely free of charge. Thanks to the Aloka Vision Programme, ZEISS is able to offer regular eye screenings and eyeglasses. In October 2020 alone, more than 3,800 people received eye exams and over 1,000 pairs of glasses were
handed out.

ZEISS has joined forces with Drishti Eye Care to provide its services in Nepal. Drishti Eye Care is an eye hospital focusing on diagnosing and treating non-refractive visual impairments in children. The aim is to help at least 10,000 children each year. ZEISS also provides the equipment needed to perform the eye screenings.