Estratégia Climática
Destaques
- Greif’s climate strategy, embedded across our entire operations, is vital to minimizing Greif’s impact on the environment and partnering effectively with our customers as we work to enable their climate-related goals.
- Tackling climate impacts requires operational-wide, holistic solutions, including our extensive waste reduction initiatives.
- Through the development and rollout of our Build to Last strategy, we increased Board oversight on our climate strategy through education and awareness of climate risks and emerging trends that could impact the long-term success of our business.
- In 2022, we completed a more robust inventory of our energy use and associated emissions across our organization allowing us to better understand our greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint. Our FY2022 combined Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions totaled 1,321,500 metric tons. The more complete coverage of our inventory led to a year-over-year increase in total energy consumption and associated emissions.
Por que a estratégia climática é importante
Greif’s climate strategy, embedded into all operations, is paramount to an effective partnership with the environment and our customers. Our top global key customers have demonstrated that climate action is a top priority, with nearly half setting ambitious decarbonization targets. We aim to be an essential partner for achieving these targets. Across our value chain, we implement energy and emissions reduction programs, embracing a low-carbon future through improved energy efficiency, raw material minimization and renewable energy. A strong climate strategy has proved essential in attracting talent. Greif’s role as a global manufacturer imparts considerable responsibility but presents many opportunities to make a climate-positive impact, providing a competitive advantage.
Governança
Greif has a responsibility to minimize our carbon footprint. This responsibility extends throughout the lifecycle of our products, from the extraction of raw materials to their end of life. Since 2010, Greif has maintained a Global Climate Team1, comprising representatives from all business units and regions, responsible for providing support, guidance and direction to facilities to identify energy and emissions reduction projects. The team is also responsible for helping facilities develop roadmaps and track progress toward our 2030 target to reduce energy use and absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions. For example, as part of our recent Cadeia de mantimentos initiatives and related roadmaps, we are working to reduce emissions from our vehicles and forklifts. Additionally, a significant portion of our Scope 3 emissions are associated with our raw materials and the end-of-life handling of our products. Our efforts to drive sustainable Inovação e Fabricação Circular support our climate strategy and enable our ability to reduce GHG emissions in partnership with our suppliers and customers.
Strengthening our climate governance has been a priority area in the Protecting Our Future pillar of our Build to Last Strategy. As such, we increased Board oversight through climate engagement and education to bolster our governance practices. This engagement raised awareness of the importance of climate risks and emerging trends that could impact the future of the packaging sector. These conversations help us create more connections between climate and emissions within our operational segments.
To further advance our climate management practices following the results of a gap analysis against the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations, we again held a series of internal climate risk workshops to better understand the climate-related risks and opportunities our business faces. Through the workshops, colleagues from cross-functional departments and across our global footprint collaborated to identify, rank and evaluate regulatory, market and physical climate-related risks and opportunities. Results from these workshops are shared throughout the organization to give a better understanding and explanation of our risks. Additionally, findings are integrated into our risk management processes and surveys, reinforcing strategies already in place, such as our circular economy initiatives. In 2022, we completed a third-party scenario risk-based assessment and transition risk analysis, aligned with TCFD guidelines, to further understand our climate-based risks and opportunities. We also began a third-party evaluation of our physical risks to determine how they impact our business financially, which is still ongoing, and we plan to share our findings in 2023. Please visit this report’s Gestão de Riscos seção para saber mais sobre nosso processo de gerenciamento de riscos corporativos.
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Risco / Oportunidade |
Tópico |
Description*
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Risk |
Catástrofe natural |
Grande inundação/furacão/terremoto/tempestade de vento, etc., levando à perda de uma instalação de produção importante ou valiosa (uma ou várias). |
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Risk |
Mecanismos de precificação do carbono |
Regulamentos de precificação de carbono, como sistemas de cap-and-trade e impostos de carbono, estão impactando Greif em alguns mercados (Europa e América do Norte) e podem surgir em outras regiões. Isso se manifesta como uma despesa substancial e crescente. |
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Risk |
Investimentos ineficientes / planejamento de capital |
A falta de recursos para entender completamente o impacto das mudanças regulatórias em decisões estratégicas e investimentos pode levar a uma alocação de capital abaixo do ideal. Isso inclui instalações se tornando obsoletas mais rapidamente do que o esperado e um ROI menor do que o esperado.
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Risk |
Resiliência / continuidade da produção |
Capacidades organizacionais excepcionais, resiliência empresarial associada, preparação e agilidade permitirão que a Greif retome os níveis de produção mais rapidamente e ofereça melhor suporte a colegas, clientes e comunidades ao longo do tempo, caso interrupções e catástrofes se tornem mais comuns.
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Risk |
Catástrofe ambiental direta
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Grandes eventos climáticos/meteorológicos em instalações importantes, como as operações da Delta, Vreeland e Paper Mill, levando a um grande evento ambiental, evento financeiro e potencialmente levando a problemas de relações públicas/imagem.
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| Risk and Opportunity | Mudança nas preferências do cliente | A demanda por produtos sustentáveis está aumentando. O risco de que a Greif não esteja se movendo rápido o suficiente para responder ao uso crescente de materiais reciclados em processos de produção pode reduzir a demanda pelos produtos e serviços da Greif. Além disso, regulamentações relacionadas ao clima que limitam os mercados finais dos produtos da Greif, como a indústria de petróleo e gás, podem limitar os negócios da Greif ao diminuir a demanda por seus produtos e serviços em mercados-chave. A Greif pode capitalizar essa oportunidade aumentando nosso portfólio de produtos sustentáveis rapidamente. |
| Opportunity | Impacto no negócio de reciclagem da Greif | Cenários climáticos de maior ambição dependem do aumento das taxas de reciclagem de aço e plástico. Se posicionada apropriadamente, a Greif pode ser capaz de aumentar a escala de sua prática atual de recondicionamento. |
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Opportunity |
Resiliência
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Capacidades organizacionais excepcionais associadas à resiliência, preparação e agilidade dos negócios permitirão que a Greif retome os níveis de produção mais rapidamente e ofereça melhor suporte a colegas, clientes e comunidades ao longo do tempo, caso interrupções e catástrofes se tornem mais comuns. |
Promovendo a energia renovável
Renewables, such as biomass, solar and wind energy, will play a major role in addressing the challenges of climate change over the long term. We are committed to testing and expanding renewable energy technologies across our global operations when doing so is economically viable and in the best interest of our stakeholders. In total, we have installed over 11,500 solar panels capable of 3.1 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of solar production. Since 2016 we have been increasing the amount of renewable energy we source from onsite and offsite locations across our global footprint. Greif locations in North America, Brazil, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Israel and the Netherlands source renewable energy to date. Renewables now account for 14 percent of Greif’s energy use through our continued investment. We continue to evaluate opportunities to procure additional renewable energy. For example, we conducted a study to assess and rank the best Greif locations for onsite solar installations in North America.
Over the past few years, our total energy consumption has increased. We are looking deeper into our investments in energy efficiency projects and exploring different funding mechanisms and models to reduce our energy use and have a dedicated budget set for energy and emissions management. Energy efficiency is a key consideration in capital deployment and vital to meeting energy usage goals. We include ESG in the criteria for capital requests as part of our capital allocation system and screen for ESG benefits. Benefits include cost-savings, reduced energy consumption, reduced raw material usage and increased health and safety of people and products.
In 2022, we implemented 45 energy efficiency projects, resulting in an annual savings of nearly 13 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) and approximately $750,000 across our organization. These projects include replacing equipment and updating processes that reduce energy demand, such as solar shading, waste heat recovery and implementing energy efficiency practices like lighting and HVAC replacements. Our colleagues continuously look for opportunities to improve and upgrade technology and equipment for energy efficiency. To better identify energy efficiency opportunities, we conducted audits of all our Latin American (LATAM) facilities, including a preliminary energy study across all sites. The study identified 447 focus areas, the top five accounting for 85 percent of our total energy reduction opportunities within the LATAM region. We are developing roadmaps to reduce energy consumption based on our findings from this study. For more information about our energy efficiency projects, please see sections C4.3, C4.3a and C4.3b of our 2022 CDP Climate Response.
Energy Efficiency in Production
Greif recently invested in a new blow molding machine to manufacture Greif’s plastic jerrycans at our Casablanca, Morocco, plant. The new engine uses up to 30 percent less energy than older machines while delivering significantly higher productivity. The new equipment increases production capacity by up to 25 percent for our one- to five-liter bottles and is designed to optimize and reduce raw material usage, extending the environmental benefit of the machine beyond energy use.
The team in Morocco also implemented other energy efficiency projects such as eliminating air leakages in our plastic and steel plants, replacing hydraulic extruders with electric ones on four machines, upgrading old equipment and replacing DC motors with AC motors on several blow molding machines that help to significantly reduce our energy consumption.
Greif recognizes that tackling climate impacts takes operational-wide, holistic solutions. Thus, managing waste is a broader part of our sustainability strategy that impacts emissions. By reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill, we can reduce emissions associated with waste transportation, sorting and processing. Additionally, our waste reduction efforts prevent landfill gas production, a particularly potent mix of greenhouse gases generated as waste breaks down. Currently, we divert 85 percent of our waste from landfills and continually work to reduce the remaining 15 percent of waste sent to landfills. In 2022, we diverted more than 1.5 million tons of recycled paper from landfills.
*Please see Greif’s 2022 CDP Climate Change Response for additional information
[1] Formerly the Global Energy Team
Metas, Progresso e Desempenho
In 2020, we conducted a detailed analysis and evaluation with a third party of our ability to commit to a goal that would be approved by the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi). We then announced our commitment to reducing our Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 28 percent by 2030 from a 2019 baseline. This target aligns with prevailing climate science to limit global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. By the end of next year, 2023, Greif will also complete an assessment of its Scope 3 emissions and determine the feasibility of a long-term net zero emissions aspiration in alignment with the Science Based Targets Initiative.
In 2022, we began investigating and pursuing renewable alternatives to replace our current electricity and natural gas consumption. We also announced our commitment to reducing our energy use by 10 percent for every unit of production from a 2019 baseline. Additionally, we focused on improving our investigation into virtual power purchase agreements (VPPA) and conducted an onsite solar study for North America sites. In 2023, we will conduct energy audits and develop energy efficiency roadmaps at our mill facilities.
Meta para 2030:
- Reduzir as emissões absolutas de GEE do Escopo 1 e do Escopo 2 em 28% em relação à linha de base de 2019.
- Reduzir nosso uso de energia em 10% para cada unidade de produção em relação a 2019.
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FY 2017 |
AF 2018 |
AF 2019 |
AF 2020 |
AF 2021 |
AF 2022 |
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Energia |
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3,058,000 |
3,103,200 |
5,398,000 |
5,423,000 |
5,832,000 | 6,145,000 |
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Linha de base |
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-0.3% | -2.3% |
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Emissões de GEE (milhares de toneladas métricas) |
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368 |
377 |
686 |
693 |
697 | 756 |
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416 |
416 |
622 |
590 |
557 | 565 |
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3,089 |
2,867 |
4,407 |
4,148 |
4,357 | 5,019 |
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3,873 |
3,660 |
5,715 |
5,430 |
5,611 | 6,340 |
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- |
Linha de base |
- |
4.1% | 0.4% |
Notas:
- O Total de Energia e Emissões de GEE experimentaram aumentos significativos em 2019 devido à aquisição da Caraustar pela Greif. Nosso inventário do AF2022 fornece uma cobertura mais completa de suas operações e, pela primeira vez, inclui o seguinte: consumo de diesel e GLP para instalações globais, uso global de propano, cogeração na instalação de Los Angeles, uso global de aluguel de carros, consumo de eletricidade em instalações de depósito e escritório. Isso levou a um grande aumento no consumo total de energia e emissões associadas.
- O uso de energia por unidade de produção inclui apenas o uso de energia na PPS Mills, PPS CorrChoice, PPS IPG, PPS RFG, GIP EMEA, GIP APAC, GIP North America, GIP Latin America e LCS NA. Isso fornece uma comparação mais precisa ano a ano, em linha com os cálculos dos anos anteriores.
- As emissões do Escopo 2 do ano fiscal de 2019 foram recalculadas desde 2021 devido aos dados revisados de uso de energia da Greif.
- As emissões por unidade de produção incluem apenas as emissões associadas ao uso de energia na PPS Mills, PPS CorrChoice, PPS IPG, PPS RFG, GIP EMEA, GIP APAC, GIP North America, GIP Latin America e LCS NA. Isso fornece uma comparação mais precisa ano a ano, em linha com os cálculos dos anos anteriores.
- Declaração de verificação de GEE de 2022
Greif Pudahuel no Chile alcança 100% de energia renovável
A usina siderúrgica Pudahuel da Greif no Chile foi nossa primeira instalação na América Latina a operar com energia 100% renovável. Por meio de um projeto de dois anos, em parceria com a fornecedora de energia IMELSA ENERGIA, a instalação conseguiu mover todo o seu fornecimento de eletricidade para fontes 100% renováveis. A instalação produz grandes tambores de aço, tambores cônicos e garrafas de água para os mercados de produtos químicos, óleo lubrificante e alimentos e bebidas. Essa mudança avança nossa estratégia de sustentabilidade, apoia nossa meta de redução de emissões de GEE para 2030 e ajuda a apoiar as metas de redução de emissões do Escopo 3 de nossos clientes.
Resposta à demanda da Enel X
Since 2011, Greif has been participating in Demand Response (DR) with Enel X, a division of the Enel Group Worldwide, a multinational power company and leading integrated player in the world’s power and gas markets, Enel X’s DR and real-time energy monitoring allows a company access to market opportunities to monetize flexibility, increase operational reliability and highlight advancements in sustainability. Greif has accumulated over $3.5 million in DR earnings, with $385,000 in 2021 alone. There are approximately 54 Greif sites currently eligible for DR and free real-time energy monitoring not currently enrolled with Enel X. We are assessing to determine if sites are eligible and suitable candidates for participation in DR to expand our participation in the program.
Estudo LATAM Tigre Energy
Greif’s LATAM Tigre location conducted a multi-disciplinary evaluation of all Latin American plants to implement a 6% reduction in energy consumption per unit produced by 2025 compared to a 2019 baseline. All machines, peripherals parts, general equipment and elements consuming electricity were identified and assessed, finding 447 energy focus areas across LATAM. From these focus areas, 70 strategic energy projects were identified. As of November 2022, 14 projects have been completed, resulting in an energy cost savings of $72,500 per year and an energy use reduction of 573,000 kilowatt-hours per year. This energy study was one of five impactful projects across the LATAM region, earning Greif’s Michael J. Gasser Global Sustainability Award, showing how well sustainability is integrated into all aspects of their business.
