Garnica’s genuine commitment to reducing our carbon footprint

Since making a firm commitment to reduce our carbon footprint, we have spent the last few years adding each Garnica plant to the carbon footprint registry managed by the Spanish Office for Climate Change (Oficina Española del Cambio Climático). Thanks to all of our efforts, since 1 January 2022, all Garnica work centres in Spain are now powered by 100% renewable electricity. This is in addition to the fact that the heating energy required for production was already being generated sustainably from biomass. The combination of both measures means that over 95% of the total energy used at our work centres now comes from renewable sources.

This electricity consumption has a direct impact on reducing our carbon footprint. In 2018, we started using a “more renewable” energy mix, resulting in a significant reduction of our greenhouse gas emissions. This has allowed us to continue gradually reducing our CO2 equivalent (tCO2eq), a unit of measurement used to calculate emissions of all greenhouse gases which, in this case, are measured in relation to the company’s turnover.

Corporate carbon footprint is an environmental indicator that reflects all the greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted at a work centre, both directly and indirectly. It is measured as an equivalent weight of CO2, in order for it to be an objective and comparable indicator. Knowing an organisation’s carbon footprint is the first step towards establishing a strategy for reducing or offsetting emissions.

In the specific case of Garnica, the emission of these greenhouse gases is calculated over all of the Group’s work centres, including scopes 1 and 2, i.e. fuel burned on-site to produce energy or for transportation within the factory, as well as electricity consumption.

All of the company’s efforts are therefore in line with our ESG policies in terms of social responsibility, and are part of our commitment to ensuring the environmental efficiency of all our activity, since we want to keep growing responsibly through sustainable economic models, in order to move towards a circular economy.