Environment GHG emissions

DAP has an ambitious commitment to become carbon neutral in its activities by 2030 (also called scope 1 & 2), and, in a second step, in its entire supply chain by 2040 (scope 1, 2 and 3 combined).

The effort required to achieve carbon neutrality is unprecedented. We are committed to mobilize all necessary resources to combat climate change in our domain. We will share our progress annually in the ESG report.

The GHG Protocol Corporate Standard classifies a company’s GHG emissions into three ‘scopes’.

- Scope 1 emissions are direct emissions from owned or controlled sources.

- Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions from the generation of purchased energy.

- Scope 3 emissions are all indirect emissions (not included in scope 2) that occur in the value chain of the reporting company, including both upstream and downstream emissions.

We have calculated our corporate direct and indirect emissions from scope 1 and 2:

TOTAL SCOPE 2

TOTAL (Scope 1 + 2)

Our Scope 1 and 2 Greenhouse Gas emissions represent a total of 13,567 tons of CO2 equivalent in 2022.

48 % of these emissions come from Stationary Combustion (boilers) and 42 % from electricity. The remaining share is split 7 % from fugitive emissions (refrigerant gas) and 3 % from mobile combustion (transport).

Since last year, our Scope 1 and 2 emissions have increased by 13%. However, within the same period, our GHG intensity (tCO2e / t Finished product) reduced by 4%.

Providing food to the world is our mission. This is an essential activity and we’re now doing it more efficiently in terms of carbon impact. We generate (scope 1 and 2) 0.53 tCO2e in producing 1 ton of fnished goods.

This is the result of several energy optimization projects conducted over the last 2 years (refer to the chapter “Energy Optimization” pages 64 to 67).

This ratio is a key indicator which demonstrates the improvements made in our factories to achieve more energy efficient processes.

We recognise that our action on Scope 1 and 2 is only the frst step in our decarbonization journey. We intend to expand our efforts to the entire added value chain of our activities. We are currently calculating our Scope 3 emissions, in order to better understand them and prioritise our actions. For this difficult task, we have partnered with Greenly, a French company that helps us to calculate, understand and reduce our emissions. We have run a pilot project with our distribution office in Singapore. The result is positive: in a few months, we obtained a GHG Report that highlights the key impacts of our activities.

We will now deploy this solution with all our companies under the scope of this ESG Report, with the objective of obtaining a full GHG Report (scope 1, 2 and 3) by the end of 2023.

In parallel, we are working on the LCAs (Life Cycle Assessments) of our main ranges of products. It is long and tedious work that should take us a few years. But it will serve two purposes: a better understanding of our GHG emissions at our product level, and a view of the overall environmental impact of our products, on a larger scope than only Climate Change. So far, we have completed the LCA on canned sardines and mackerel, coconut in cans, and coconut in brick. However, for coconut products, we will need to perform additional audits as today’s databases do not properly measure the type of plantations we are sourcing from.

Once this task is complete, we will create our carbon neutrality strategy, with the aim of defining ScienceBased Targets.