About Jaguar Land Rover

Jaguar Land Rover is the UK’s largest automotive manufacturer, built around two iconic British car brands: Land Rover, the world’s leading manufacturer of premium all-wheel- drive vehicles; and Jaguar, one of the world’s premier luxury sports saloon and sports car marques.

We employ more than 40,000 people globally and support around 240,000 more through our dealerships, suppliers and local businesses. Manufacturing is centred in the UK, with additional plants in China, Brazil, India and Slovakia.

At Jaguar Land Rover we are driven by a desire to create class-leading products that deliver great customer experiences. The largest investor in R&D in the UK manufacturing sector, we have invested £12 billion in the last five years and in the current year alone will spend over £3 billion on new product creation and capital expenditure. In 2016 Jaguar Land Rover sold more than 583,000 vehicles in 136 countries, with more than 80 per cent of our vehicles produced in the UK being sold abroad.

About Responsible Business at Jaguar Land Rover

Lighting up Lives is particularly relevant to Jaguar Land Rover’s own operations. It runs the UK’s largest rooftop solar array at its Engine Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton, West Midlands – technology that will meet up to 30 per cent of the plant’s energy demand. Jaguar Land Rover’s three UK car factories, as well as its main research and development and office sites, are powered by electricity from 100 per cent renewable sources.

Responsible business is also powered by engaged, skilled people and Jaguar Land Rover invests more than £100 million a year in its in-house academy and nearly a quarter of its workforce is working towards a qualification, from apprenticeships to doctorates. It is also nurturing the next generation of bright minds, inspiring young men and women to become engineers and helping to bridge the growing skills gap through its school science, technology, engineering and maths programme ‘Inspiring Tomorrow’s Engineers’. And, thanks to an industry-leading volunteering programme, employees can dedicate two paid days a year to a good cause

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About ClimateCare

As a certified B Corporation, we believe that to tackle climate change, poverty and create sustainable development, we need interventions that deliver on a holistic basis. We help the public and private sector work together to create award-winning ClimateCare programmes designed to tackle poverty, improve health and protect the environment, whilst delivering value for the organisations involved.

We unlock new sources of finance by helping corporates take full responsibility for their social and environmental impacts and helping the public sector deliver more efficiency for its spend. Leveraging mainstream funding, we profitably deliver some of the largest, most successful sustainability initiatives in the world. To date we have worked with hundreds of partners to cut over 20.6 million tonnes of CO2 and at the same time, improved the lives of 16.5 million people.

Find out more at www.climatecare.org         Follow ClimateCare on twitter: @ClimateCare

About the project

The Lighting up Lives programme builds on Jaguar Land Rover and ClimateCare’s ten-year partnership delivering programmes with social and environmental benefits across the world. Low-income households will be offered affordable finance to buy the life-enhancing solar technology. Repayments are calculated to equate to a household’s average monthly spend on kerosene. Additionally, the distribution, sales and service infrastructure ensures the sustainability and legacy of the programme.