Not at all. As a father of three children, I naturally wish for a sustainable and peaceful future that we shape together. I also wish this from an entrepreneurial point of view. I see us as an innovation team at Busch-Jaeger and as a strong team player in the global innovation network of ABB as having a special responsibility to contribute to this. This responsibility is both part of our Busch-Jaeger DNA and a clear mandate in our "ABB Purpose": to continuously drive the transformation to a more productive and sustainable future through technological progress.

Sustainability forms the foundation of corporate policy at Busch-Jaeger. The view is holistic: a clear focus is on sustainable product and process design. In addition, economic and also social action in the sense of all interest groups, including our customers, society and of course the employees, is important for the company. A central aspect of the sustainability orientation is, among other things, the question of how we realise a product with the lowest possible CO2 footprint. We use many possibilities here at Busch-Jaeger: Use of recycled materials in the plastics sector, low-power technology and efficient embedded software architectures. We also optimise the technical recyclability of our products. Our switch series future linear®, Busch-axcent® and Busch-balance® are already cradle-to-cradle certified, successive extensions are planned. We also have innovation projects in the pipeline that will take us significantly further and are expanding intensive partnerships in material development. One product example for low-power electronics and efficient embedded software is our Smart Home system Busch-flexTronics® wireless with the new Busch-flexTronics® inserts, in which we were able to reduce power consumption many times over compared to the previous generation. In production technology, we can demonstrate great success with our "Mission to Zero", which arose from the vision of energy-autonomous and CO2-neutral industrial production. Our first almost climate-neutral production site in Lüdenscheid should be mentioned here. On sunny days, the photovoltaic system covers up to 100 percent of the electricity demand. Every year, around 1100 MWh of climate-neutral solar power is produced there - roughly the annual demand of 340 private households.

With smartification and digitalisation, we are setting a very clear booster in the area of sustainability orientation. It's not just about minimising the footprint, it's also about maximising the handprint, i.e. what we can achieve for our customers by using our solutions. This starts with simple, smart applications such as motion detectors or room temperature controllers, which reduce energy consumption by around 6 percent with every degree saved. It becomes even more interesting when we go into comprehensive networking and bring together the power control in the building across all trades. Here, for example, we enable demand-dependent energy control via KNX or our open ecosystem Busch-free@home®. This creates energy efficiency potential with savings of up to 30 percent in building automation. Digitalisation is the next level, which builds on smartification. As Busch-Jaeger, we address many millions of installation points every year together with our specialist partners. With the smartification of the installed base, we have a joint opportunity to expand this with digital solutions. With the help of relevant data, better decisions can be made to optimise building use. This leverage becomes greater the more we collaborate in open, digital ecosystems. In concrete terms, the continuous further development of Busch-free@home® not only allows us to exploit the opportunities we have in ABB's smart network for energy management and EV charging, but also to work together with strong partners. For example, we use the wibutler alliance to network a heterogeneous variety of devices into a homogeneous overall system including heating, air conditioning and ventilation technology. Our partnerships, for example with Samsung, are about combining strengths for a sustainable future and offering our customers even greater benefits.