Climate change
Sustainability report 2021
Climate change
> Strategy > Operations reporting > Equipment reporting
Preventing climate change and reducing BOBST’s carbon footprint takes a high-priority position in the Group’s materiality assessment. Both internal and external stakeholders recognized its relevance for BOBST because the carbon footprint of packaging production and consumption is considerable. Reducing the intake of natural resources in BOBST’s operations is both an environmental and economic concern. As a leading supplier of packaging solutions and equipment, BOBST has always been actively seeking to improve the efficiency of its technologies and producing processes. In 2021, BOBST took its sustainability journey to the next level by establishing it as one of the four core pillars of its strategy and vision of the packaging industry along with automation, digitalization, and connectivity. Within the packaging industry, BOBST’s impact on climate change occurs in several main areas. The Group operates industrial sites, produces equipment, ships machines and spare parts to its customers throughout the world. All these activities consume energy (e.g. electricity and fuel) as well as natural resources (e.g. water and iron) and generate carbon emissions.
> P ackaging use & end-of-life reporting > GRI index
First full-carbon accounting of the Group’s activities BOBST has been reporting GHG emissions for several years but only including CO2 emissions from its production sites. Since BOBST introduced its new sustainability strategy in 2021, the Group has set climate change among its priorities, with the immediate objectives to improve the quantification of GHG emissions and to identify reduction targets (2022). The BOBST sustainability report 2021 presents for the first time a full-carbon accounting of the Group’s activities, according to the GHG protocol standard (see page 23). All local entities for which the Group has financial control have been taken into account (except for Bieling & Petsche Stanzforme, Cito Group, Gordon and Boxplan, which are entities that do not operate under the BOBST brand).
On the other end, the machinery sold by BOBST enables converters worldwide to produce packaging from a wide variety of substrates. However, their energy consumption is considerable and causes Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.
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