Environment: foundation for a sustainable future
Tackling climate change. It is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. As a business, you play a crucial role in this endeavour. It is essential to understand how business activities contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and identify which steps you can take to reduce this impact. With a targeted approach, it doesn’t stop at just an ambition; you translate it into tangible action that delivers results. That is how you make an impact.
Environment: one issue, four topics
Scope 1, 2, 3 emissions
Calculate all emissions within your organization and chain.
Product Carbon Footprint
Calculate the emissions of a specific product.
Reduction Strategy
Formulate concrete measures to reduce your emissions.
Climate risk assessment
Identify and assess the (financial) impacts of climate change on your business.
This is how we do it
Tackling climate change: a social and strategic imperative
Combating climate change is a reality that affects us all. Greenhouse gas emissions are driving this change. The 2015 Paris Agreement reflects a global consensus to reduce emissions to net zero by 2050, with significant progress expected by 2030. The European Union and the Dutch government have also committed to these ambitious targets: by reducing their emissions by 55% and 60% respectively compared to 1990 levels.
Calculating your carbon footprint
As a business with an impact stemming from your own operations and your value chain you are an essential part of this global movement. Measuring and actively addressing your own carbon footprint and those of your products is therefore no longer merely an environmental obligation. It is increasingly becoming a social and strategic necessity for survival and growth in a rapidly changing world. Transparency and reporting are also playing an ever-greater role in this. Companies are increasingly aligning themselves with the ambitions of the Paris Climate Agreement by pursuing targets such as Net Zero and involving their supply chain partners in this process.
Reduction strategies
Companies are implementing strategies to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. These range from energy efficiency improvements to investing in renewable energy sources. As well as from reviewing production processes and upgrading equipment to less polluting alternatives to increasing sustainability throughout the supply chain. The more companies reduce their emissions, the greater the collective impact on reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.
Contribute to climate targets
We often see that there is no lack of ambition, but putting it into practice raises questions. How do you go about it? Where do you start? How do you get stakeholders on board? Moreover, there are the inevitable challenges. We support companies and organisations. Together, we develop a climate strategy. Our approach is practical, clear and in line with recognised standards such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (Scope 1, 2 and 3 and the Product Standard).
1. Measuring and understanding
Start by measuring and understanding your carbon footprint. This can be your organisation’s footprint or a product’s carbon footprint. This is the first step towards an effective climate strategy. It involves mapping emissions across all business activities and identifying opportunities to reduce them. We assist companies in developing a measurement methodology, carrying out a carbon footprint assessment and actively involving the entire organisation in this process, to foster ownership and engagement. In this way, departments become aware of their contribution to the carbon footprint, gain a better understanding of how they can reduce emissions and can clearly track the progress of their efforts.
Setting Targets
Once the carbon footprint is clear, we move on to formulating a climate strategy. We ensure that this strategy is firmly embedded within the corporate culture. This process begins with identifying appropriate measures to reduce emissions, after which we set specific targets. Then, we make it concrete: we plan actions within a timeline, map out associated costs and challenges, and coordinate clearly defined tasks and responsibilities within your organisation by mobilising working groups. To reinforce the climate strategy, your organisation can join the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). We ensure that every step meets the criteria set for this purpose.
3. Reporting
We support you with writing sustainability reports that are both transparent and comprehensive, as well as external audit-proof. We assist in accurately reporting environmental impact, climate strategies and reduction targets – all in accordance with relevant standards and guidelines. By ensuring the reliability and credibility of these reports, we enable your company to monitor its progress effectively, whilst maintaining the trust of stakeholders. We have already helped many companies and organizations take their first steps, and we are proud of the impact we’ve made together. Read, for example, how we supported Avebe – an ingredients supplier that produces potato starch and protein – in producing its integrated annual report.
From ambition to action!
