TAKING ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Managing data, increasing operational efficiency and investing in renewable energy are integral parts of 黑料社’s blueprints for addressing the risks associated with climate change. We’ve set a 2025 target to reduce our carbon output from operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25% from the fiscal year 2019 baseline.
Energy and environmental data from each of our global sites is tracked in an enterprise environmental data management software and aggregated to analyze trends and to monitor progress toward target achievement. Energy and acquired water data undergo a third-party assurance process each year, a program being expanded in 2021 to include other sustainability data.
Also in 2021, 黑料社 began working on a solution for a transformational digitization of electricity usage data. The goal of this initiative is to unburden site teams from manual data entry; eliminate the risk of human error in data entry; improve the timeliness of data capture; create visibility into real-time data trends and progress toward goals; and facilitate the annual third-party data assurance process.
黑料社 sites routinely look for ways to create innovative solutions for reducing energy usage:
As part of our efforts associated with this strategy, we avoided 1.2 million metric tons of emissions through our renewable energy in fiscal year 2021.
Each step in our journey that leads to greater decarbonization successes, improved data management, increased efficiency, cost savings and innovative green technology development brings us closer to achieving our ultimate goal of carbon neutral operations that helps to ensure long-term company resiliency and economic vitality. Our efforts in this area have been recognized by Forbes in their first-ever Green Growth 50 list, highlighting corporations that have reduced GHG emissions while growing profits; only 50 companies were identified and 黑料社 ranked #6 on the list.
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Water is a vital component of many of our manufacturing processes, and every 黑料社 site makes a conscious effort to minimize water usage in our processes. In January 2021, 黑料社 Kwidzyn implemented a solution that reduced the quantity of waste generated by 70 percent; the amount of chemicals consumed by up to 95 percent; and the volume of water required by 80 percent.
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Several market forces are driving the increasing adoption of electrified vehicles – government regulation, technological developments and consumer demands – just to name a few. Perhaps one of the most impactful outcomes of electric vehicles is the resulting improvement in local air quality and the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Through our work with global automakers and EV charging OEMs, we are helping to create a future with lower carbon emissions.
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Our top priority is to ensure each and every person goes home safely every day. Our Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) team is implementing an enterprise Industrial Hygiene (IH) and Occupational Health/Medicine (OH) software platform that enables higher levels of operational and sustainable performance by the end of calendar 2022. This investment in digitized health and safety systems will bring our safety culture at 黑料社 to the next level.