Recently we announced our new long-term sustainability strategy, Pure Food+Pure Planet, which sets out our commitment to positive change - evolving our sustainability goals to align with current climate science.
Underpinning Pure Food+Pure Planet is our commitment to Science Based Targets - greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets informed by independent climate science and in line with the levels of decarbonisation called for in the Paris Agreement.
By signing up to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), we are making a public commitment to achieving our ambitious goals – working towards Net Zero, or negative carbon footprint for our business by 2050.
The cornerstone of Pure Food+Pure Planet is a commitment to reduce carbon in our operations and our supply chain. That means reducing GHG emissions in our manufacturing sites and partnering with our farmer suppliers to reduce GHG emissions on farm.
Glanbia pledges to:
Reduce carbon emissions by 31% in our manufacturing sites by 2030 (Scope 1 and 2)
Reduce carbon emission intensity by 25% from purchased goods and services, per tonne of dairy product by 2030 from a 2018 base year (scope 3).
To achieve our ambition we will prioritise renewable energy procurement and an energy efficiency focus; partner with our suppliers and leverage on farm programmes already targeting carbon reductions and invest in on-farm advisory support and communications, as well as reporting tools.
That’s not all.
Our Pure Food+Pure Planet ambition on waste sits at the heart of sustainability aims to reduce food waste and minimise the impact of all waste on the environment by sourcing more sustainable disposal methods. For our manufacturing sites, we commit to:
Zero waste to landfill at all our operational sites by 2025
50% reduction in food waste by 2030
For water, we analysed the breadth of water accounting across our business, and in 2021 we commit to building on this by conducting water risk assessments across all our operations. The audits will inform future actions and targets for 2030 which we will confirm later this year.
Our sustainability commitments are central to living our values and meeting our company vision of earning trust and enriching lives.