GHG emissions

GHG emissions

At our Group, we have been tracking our scopes 1 and 2 emissions and reporting them since 2019.  We decided to use that year’s GHG emissions as a baseline to set limits and started working in a comprehensive plan to reduce them in a scientific and time line specific manner.  While we are not yet ready to publish a scientifically backed and timeline specific GHG emissions reduction target, we maintain our commitment to limit our yearly emissions to 2019 levels. 
Compared with our baseline year 2019, our scopes 1 and 2 GHG emissions decreased by 11,2% with comparable manufacturing output (only -1,8%).

Emissions Intensity Ratios (EIR)

Emissions intensity ratios (EIR) are a useful way to define GHG emissions in an industry specific context as well as a way to track environmental performance with intensity ratios, often called normalized environmental impact data.  GHG EIR express the amount of Scopes 1 and 2 GHG emissions per unit of activity, output, or any other organization-specific metric.

Both manufacturing and revenue based EIRs indicate a 2021 improvement vs. 2019 (2020 was not a representative year due to Covid-19 disruption), consequently, every ton produced and euro sold required less emissions.

In terms of emissions of ozone-depleting substances (ODS), we did not produce, imported, or exported of such substances. We carefully track other air emissions such as Nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur oxides (SOx), persistent organic pollutants (POPs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), particular matter (PM), and other air emissions identified and disclosed.

Logistics

Our logistics teams are fully conscious of transport’s impact on CO₂ emissions and the importance of implementing a strategy aligned with our overall environmental compliance, with specific actions such as:
• minimizing Air Freight shipments;
• preferring Intermodal transports where possible and feasible;
• joining different groupages shipments into Full Truck Load shipments, whenever possible.

Since 2018, our logistics teams at our Italian plants started a project aimed at promoting intermodal transport instead of road transport in order to decrease the environmental impact of its transports. Focused on our busy Italy – Spain route, we are gradually moving transport from road to intermodal, prioritizing sea transport between Savona and Barcelona ports. This project has led to a 37,3% reduction in tons of CO₂ emission on that route in 2021, corresponding to a total saving of 114 tons of CO₂ emissions.  Since the project started in mid- 2018 a total of 368 tons of CO₂ have been avoided.