REDUCE CO2
Our Sustainability Strategy 2025 is called
“It’s our Nature! Reduce with Us! “
Launched in 2022, our sustainability strategy is a 3th years transformational journey in which we pioneer climate and nature action, innovate sustainable products and secure a responsible business.
Why? Because the world needs it, and it is who we are. It’s simply the right thing to do and it’s our nature!
Launched in 2022, our sustainability strategy is a 3th years transformational journey in which we pioneer climate and nature action, innovate sustainable products and secure a responsible business.
Why Lifetime Carbon Neutral?
This is the first step in achieving our goals for the 2025 sustainability strategy. It determines how we make our company – our organization, our products and our future value chain – more sustainable in order to create a better future for generations to come.
Becoming Lifetime Carbon Neutral By 2042
CALCULATION OF THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF A PRODUCT
Guidelines PAS 2060 GHG Protocol
Product – any goods, including products or services.
Greenhouse gas, GHG (GHG) – gases in the atmosphere that are able to absorb thermal radiation from the surface of the planet and give it back, heating the planetary atmosphere.
Their presence leads to the greenhouse effect. These include methane, water vapor, ozone, carbon dioxide, etc.
A product’s carbon footprint (PCB) is the sum of emissions and removals of greenhouse gases generated at each stage of a product’s life cycle, expressed as CO₂ equivalent.
A source of greenhouse gases is a process that emits GHGs into the atmosphere.
A greenhouse gas sink is a process that removes GHGs from the atmosphere.
Offsetting is a mechanism for offsetting all or part of the CFP by preventing, reducing or removing greenhouse gas emissions outside the product system boundary.
A production system is a set of unit processes that form the life cycle of a product.
The system boundary is the criteria that define the product life cycle process.
The product life cycle is a set of all stages of product creation and its implementation.
The purpose of CFP is to calculate the potential contribution of a product to global warming, expressed as a CO₂ equivalent, by determining the amount of significant emissions and removal of all GHGs over the life cycle of a product.
The CFP assessment takes into account all stages of the product life cycle, including the acquisition of raw materials, production, use and the final stage of the product life cycle.
The results of the determination of the CSP are documented in the report on the study of the CSP in CO₂
Our report consists of:
• Description of products and production.
• Information about the persons responsible in the organization for collecting baseline data and quantifying greenhouse gas emissions.
• The value of the parameters needed to determine greenhouse gas emissions.
• Calculation of greenhouse gas emissions
• Results of determining greenhouse gas emissions.
OUR METHODOLOGY
1. Definition of the boundaries of the system. The boundary includes all stages of the product life cycle
2. Definition of the unit processes within the system (break the entire production process into stages)
3. Evaluation single processes by the degree of contribution to the USP: – for which unit processes a detailed assessment is needed due to the significant expected contribution to the CFP; – for which single processes the determination of GHG emissions can be based on secondary data due to the lower expected contribution to the CFP or the collection of primary data is not possible; – what unit processes can be combined (for example, transport processes).
4. Exclusion criteria. It is allowed to exclude certain processes of low significance from the calculation (guidance on exclusion criteria according to ISO 14044)
5. Identification of emission sources. For each unit process, a source of GHG emission is determined. Emission sources of the same type can be combined into groups belonging to the same category.
6. Determination the method for determining GHG. (Proposed – Calculation method based on activity data and emission factors).
7. To determine the amount of consumed raw materials, fuel, materials, manufactured products and waste:
8. Determine the amount of consumed raw materials, fuel, materials, manufactured products and waste:
a. results of measurements of resource consumption,
b. if direct measurements are not possible, the results of calculations are used based on data on the receipt, shipment and change in resource reserves for the reporting period.
9. For each source, an estimate of CO₂ emissions is made. Reference data according to ISO 14067 and other official sources are used when determining the emission factor for carbon content.
10. The results obtained for each assessed source are summarized and included in the report.
Estimation of CO₂ emissions from fuel combustion by road transport
1. The calculation of carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion is carried out based on fuel types and engine types.
2. The consumption of each type of fuel is estimated by type of transport (cars, trucks, special vehicles).
3. The total CO₂ emissions are then estimated by multiplying the amount of fuel consumed by the emission factor for each type of fuel and type of transport using the formula:
E \u003d M x K1 x TNZ x K2 x 44/12
where
E – annual CO₂ emission in weight units (tons/year);
M – actual consumption of the type of fuel for the year (tons / year);
K1 – coefficient of carbon oxidation in fuel (shows the proportion of burned carbon),
table 1; TNZ – net calorific value (J / ton), table 1;
K2 – carbon emission factor (ton C/J), table 1;
44/12 is the coefficient for converting carbon emissions C into carbon dioxide CO₂.
The purpose of CFP is to calculate the potential contribution of a product to global warming, expressed as a CO₂ equivalent, by determining the amount of significant emissions and removal of all GHGs over the life cycle of a product.
The CFP assessment takes into account all stages of the product life cycle, including the acquisition of raw materials, production, use and the final stage of the product life cycle.
The results of the determination of the CSP are documented in the report on the study of the CSP in CO₂.
The report consists of:
• Information about the organization. Description of products and production.
• Information about the persons responsible in the organization for collecting baseline data and quantifying greenhouse gas emissions.
• The value of the parameters needed to determine greenhouse gas emissions.
• Calculation of greenhouse gas emissions
• Results of determining greenhouse gas emissions.
