ENVIRONMENT

Climate change has accelerated the global warming of the planet in recent years, mainly caused by the exponential growth of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere due to the abuse of fossil fuels in economic and human development. For this reason, we understand that climate change is one of the most important and evident challenges we must face today, which we address through our commitment to the global objective of the United Nations SDG 13 on “Climate Action”.

Governments and businesses understand and manage the risks associated with these GHGs, ensuring the best long-term performance in a competitive business environment, preparing adequately for future national and international policies related to climate protection.

Mitigating climate change means limiting and reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to levels much lower than those prevailing today. This is a task that requires the participation and strong commitment of all parties on the basis of global cooperation and outreach.

Policy on Climate Change and energy use +

Our carbon footprint

We understand that as a company, our contribution must be active. To this end, we contribute to social and environmental development not only on a global scale through our footprint in the marketplace, where our products help to decarbonise the economy, but also on a local scale where we are present, where we contribute by minimising the impact of our operations, implementing measures to reduce our emissions and carbon footprint.

Through our Sustainability Strategy, we are committed to reducing our carbon footprint by 75% by 2030 for our Scope 1 and 2 emissions, as well as carbon neutrality by 2050 including Scope 3 emissions, driven by the following drivers:

– Market opportunities that currently entail companies adapting to the fight against climate change.

– The ambitious long-term climate targets of customers, partners and other parties and carbon neutrality.

– The demands of today’s climate-conscious society.

– New and ongoing climate-related regulations and standards.

In order to achieve our objectives, we are carrying out measurements of pollutant parameters, as well as plans to reduce and/or offset CO2 generated directly or indirectly, among other measures.

Improvements in the quality of human well-being have boosted population growth on a global scale, driving an economic model that has been consuming an enormous amount of the planet’s resources and generating a critical impact on the environment. This situation demands urgent measures to fight against the depletion of the planet’s natural resources, aware that, together with climate change, it is one of the most important and obvious challenges we must face today.

We approach this challenge from a commitment to the circularity of the economy, through the global objective of the United Nations SDG 12 on “Responsible production and consumption”, integrating it into the Sustainability Strategy as a critical element to boost our competitiveness, as this objective forms an essential part of the priorities of the agendas of governments and companies motivated by the growing concern of society and citizens who demand more sustainable solutions.

Our contribution is to support the preservation of the planet’s resources, for which we have analysed and quantified our impacts in all the stages that form part of the life of our products, from the extraction of materials for their manufacture to the end of their useful life, promoting circularity in our activities and minimising the generation of waste.

Circular Economy Policy +

Recovery targets

Through our Sustainability Strategy, we are committed to 75% of the hazardous and non-hazardous waste we generate being recovered by 2030, i.e. not sent to landfill, as well as 100% by 2050.

To achieve these objectives, we are implementing waste reduction and recovery measures, zero waste to landfill verifications and innovation and R&D applied to circularity projects.

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Biodiversity plays the most important role in the functioning and balance of the planet’s ecosystems, especially in the water cycle and climate regulation by preventing air pollution and natural disasters. 

According to the UN SDG-15 (¿), 31% of our planet’s surface is covered by forests and we depend on them for our livelihoods through the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat, which is why combating their degradation is essential.

Forests are also home to great biological diversity. More than 80% of all terrestrial species of animals, plants and insects are found in forests. Of the 8,300 known animal breeds, 8% are extinct and 22% are endangered.

Ultimately the aim here will be to sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

Therefore, all our activities take place in locations, which do not affect natural areas protected for their ecological and biological value. However, human presence inevitably changes the ecosystems of which it is a part by its presence alone.

Our products, activities and services are not related to and do not directly affect biodiversity. However, we recognise that we can make choices that help prevent, conserve and support biodiversity in the locations where we operate.

More information and principles for action:

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Water use & Consumption Policy+

Living beings depend directly on water as a fundamental compound for life. Its chemical composition can be altered by factors such as pollution from human, industrial, agricultural and livestock activities, dumping in cities and even atmospheric pollution. Ensuring its availability and sanitation for all people is one of the aspects to be controlled to ensure sustainability on our planet, including aquatic biodiversity.

Our industrial activities do not have a significant impact on the water in the environment where they take place. Even so, we understand that we must manage the aspects derived from the use of water, both sanitary and in our processes, in order to contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

We address this commitment through measures aimed at controlling water consumption, with the aim of optimising production processes and promoting the awareness and sensitisation of our employees regarding its efficient and responsible use. On the other hand, controlling and periodically monitoring water quality by controlling pollutant parameters will be another important factor for sustainable development, sanitation and people’s health.

Water use and consumption policy +

By the end of 2020, we committed to reduce our carbon footprint by 2030 to at least 75% of its Scope 1 and 2 emissions. Achieving this target will include measuring, reducing and/or offsetting the CO2 generated directly or indirectly.

The factors that have moved us to establish this commitment have been mainly due to the analysis of the following environments:

· The current market, which requires companies to adapt in order to take advantage of new opportunities in the fight against decarbonisation and climate change.

· Our customers, who have set ambitious long-term targets to be carbon neutral, including “net CO2 emissions”, which refers to absolute emissions without the use of offsets.

· Today’s society, which demands climate awareness from business leaders,

· Environmental regulations and standards.