Environmental impact – Moving forward
Moving forward
Our roadmap to 2030 was established some years ago and we regularly measure progress. With new net zero targets, we have further raised the bar for our scope 3 emissions, and increased efforts are needed to join forces with our value chain partners.
The roadmap is part of our overall sustainability program and reaches across all business units, with responsible colleagues from selected to oversee production; supply chain, innovation and engineering; procurement; and marketing/sales.
Having reset our baseline in 2022, it was found that company cars constitute 8% of our scope 1 emissions. During 2023 we will identify relevant initiatives to reduce these emissions. We also aim to identify relevant emission reduction initiatives across all scopes in our new sites in Morocco, Saudi Arabia and India. Within scope 3 we plan to initiate internal workshops to identify additional initiatives, and overall, we will further structure the below roadmap and implement a regular reporting structure through the business planning/review process.
Scope 1
Our roadmap includes several activities, some of which are already planned and others require more long-term planning. Elements in the roadmap include:
- Replacing fossil-fired processes with electric alternatives
- Transferring energy used for production equipment and processes from gas to electricity
- Reducing waste through operational excellence
- Changing petroleum powered forklifts to electric
The potential impact of these initiatives exceeds our targets, and the initiatives are subject to regular assessments both on financial and technological feasibility.
Scope 2
Within scope 2, our target is to continue purchasing 100% renewable electricity in the future. We also aim to reduce the overall use of electricity in order to reduce our residual scope 2 emissions. We have identified some projects and we encourage colleagues to contribute with ideas, such as through the operational excellence program, to reach these targets.
- Mapping and increasing energy efficiency at all plants
- Energy-saving projects at all plants
Scope 3
Scope 3 emissions range across the entire value chain and account for the vast majority of our emissions. While we have identified some key strategic initiatives, we need to further structure these. Some already identified initiatives include:
- Minimizing transport through end-to-end supply chain planning efficiencies
- Evaluating and optimizing modes of transport where possible
- Investigate market possibilities for replacing fossil fuel with bio-fuel or electrify transport, potentially considering hydrogen on longer term.
- Optimizing design and set-up of filling machines to reduce emissions per filled carton
- Evaluating new technologies to minimize downtime, waste, and energy consumption of filling machines
- Working systematically with key raw material suppliers to bring material use and emissions related to their production down
- Driving more sales of cartons with the lowest possible carbon footprint
- Continuing to hold virtual and digital meetings when possible, to keep emissions from travel low