Environmental Performance

Disclosure 103-1, 103-2, 103-3

The RadiciGroup environmental policy is aimed at pursuing sustainable development by integrating environmental concerns into a series of practices, plans of action and projects. The Group:

recognizes the Environment as a privileged Stakeholder and protects it through its strategies, investments and targeted actions,

preserves the intrinsic value of resources and makes best use of them,

decouples the use of resources from its economic growth, as much as possible,

invests in the sustainable innovation of its processes,

engages in the ecodesign of reduced-impact products, which are safe for the manufacturer, the user and the environment,

promotes energy transition by using renewable source energy and fights against climate change by reducing emissions, using an energy mix heavily based on green energy and adding innovative products with a smaller carbon footprint to its product portfolio,

measures the performance of all its production sites on regular basis and communicates its environmental performance in a transparent manner in its Sustainability Report and through all available internal and external communication channels. The following sections provide an overview of RadiciGroup’s environmental results grouped by complementary data inputs (received from the Environment) and outputs (delivered to the Environment). The topics covered will be as follows:

Materials used (input) – waste generated (output)

Energy used (input) – emissions to air and quality of the same (output)

Water used (input) – water discharged and quality of the same (output)

As a general consideration, it must be observed that, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, in the first half of 2020 all production sites experienced temporary production stoppages. While that led to a decrease in all environmental parameters in absolute value, production yields also inevitably worsened with a similar ripple effect on the indicators. However, the Group’s well-established and prudent environmental policies ensured that the negative results were limited as much as possible and were partially offset by a return to a situation of relative normality in the second half of the year.