The monitoring of risks associated with climate change is integrated into our Corporate Risk Management Model, from which operations in our 7 production facilities are supervised. Additionally, these risks are analyzed in our Supply Chain Monitoring and Verification tool – Ubuntu, which covers the organization’s current and future supply chains. Relevant findings and issues are reported and discussed through the Audit Committee. Sustainability Management is responsible for mobilizing the climate strategy at all levels of the company and bringing relevant issues such as the definition of goals, commitments and strategies to the Chairman’s Committee and the Board of Directors for approval.

We are working on assessing risks and opportunities at the local level through workshops with operations to identify impacts, controls and collect the necessary data to address the financial impact analysis in a second stage. We have prioritized the analysis of seven acute and chronic physical risks and fourteen transitional risks, including legal, reputational, technological and market risks in our own operations and upstream activities, which, if they materialize, could have significant impacts.

By the end of 2023, we will have made progress in risk assessment and scenario analysis for the prioritized risks, calculation of the financial impact and formulation of adaptation plan.

The results of this indicator reflect the need to work more firmly on improving the energy efficiency of the facilities, which requires transformations in the processes that reduce emissions more effectively. In this sense, we are working on the substitution of refrigerant gasses with high global warming potential (GWP), the reduction of losses, and technological upgrades to reduce natural gas consumption.

We have joined three government programs in Colombia in an effort to strengthen our climate management. We received certification for our participation in group 2 of the National Carbon Neutrality Program and participated in the closing panel sharing our experiences in emissions management. We also participated in the Carbon Neutral Valley project from the Buga facilities and from the Barranquilla facilities in the calculation of the Carbon Footprint of the Industrial and Port Sector for the city of Barranquilla, initiatives that seek to empower companies to achieve national objectives.

The definition of the baseline and its verification by a certifying entity is a crucial element that we will address in the following year, followed by the definition of the decarbonization and compensation plan.

We do not report absolute emissions data in this report as we are working on calculating the 2022 inventory for the relevant categories.

Our mitigation approach in Scope 3 will be to transform the supply chain towards decarbonization, resilience and regeneration. Our efforts will be focused on investment and collaborative work with strategic suppliers in the agricultural chain, positively impacting ecosystems and communities. 

By linking an action plan to our Responsible Sourcing Strategy, we will strengthen the climate performance of our partners to reduce their Scope 1 and 2 emissions.

We will include emissions criteria in our procedures so that they become part of our purchasing and service contracting decisions, involving strategic and decision-making areas, thus strengthening our climate governance.

As an example of mitigation management in scope 3, in October 2022 we began the implementation phase of the Optimus II logistics optimization program, which managed to increase the weight of cargo per vehicle by 9%, which means that by 2023 we will stop moving an average of 204 tractor-trailers and travel 80,000 km per year, a distance equivalent to circling the planet two times, avoiding the generation of 109 tons of CO2e*. In addition, through the Green Footprint program, we have managed to reduce emissions associated with the replacement of virgin plastic pallets with post-consumer recycled plastic pallets, which represents a reduction of 113 tons Co2e in the last 5 years. 63% approximately of the element purchase footprint between 2018 and 2022.

In recognition of these actions, we were nominated for the Zona Logística awards in the categories Large Company with the “Optimus” initiative and Environmental Logistics with the “Green Footprint” initiative.

Reduction – The lightening of our packaging is an effort that we have been actively working on for the last ten years in the organization. In the last five years, working hand in hand with Amcor, we have achieved a total reduction of approximately 506 tons per year in the reduction of virgin plastic used for the different presentations. We highlight our cross cutting approach to packaging engineering, since we have not only achieved a reduction of up to 31% of PET in some presentations, but we are also working with caps and migrating to other materials, taking into account the capacity for local post-consumer use. The developments in eco-design represent a great technical challenge due to the nature of the product they contain, where we must not only work to reduce the environmental impact but also ensure the integrity and innocuousness elements that allow our products to reach their final destination in optimum conditions.

Recyclability – We eliminated the use of white pigment in 100% of the tubs used to package margarine in Campi cups, facilitating the post-consumer use of this material, and we focused our efforts on finding the best packaging solutions for our products, so we have conducted exploration and tests to replace multi-material packaging currently used in our products with mono-material solutions that have a much higher recyclability potential.

In Chile, we were able to develop a collaborative public-private agenda for the implementation of the national eco-labeling pilot program, in order to influence consumers’ purchasing preference for products marked with the “I choose to recycle” seal. To date, 30 BredenMaster containers and 9 Kardamili brand containers have been labeled.

Seeking to understand the gaps and find opportunities to improve our management in the chain, we have joined Amazóniko, a collaborative recycling platform that connects the actors in the recycling chain to enhance waste management, train consumers and dignify the work of recyclers. We are also forming the Alianza Team Tribe, linking our employees to this platform to train our employees and their families in the proper management of waste at home.

Leveraging – During 2022, 100% of the plastic used in the bottles of 9 of the 11 references of the Gourmet brand were manufactured with PCR plastic – 100% post-consumer recycled origin, thus avoiding the use of 145.4 tons of virgin plastic, which is equivalent to a 59% reduction in the emissions of this packaging. We continue to work to include post-consumer recycled materials in our packaging -primary, secondary and tertiary- to guarantee the closing of the cycle of our materials. In Mexico, for example, we work with suppliers that provide us with all our cardboard from 100% recycled sources.

In order to ensure that our packaging is effectively collected and used, preventing the materials from ending up in landfills at the end of their useful life, we actively participate in four collectives, one in Colombia and three in Chile, through which we collaborate with actors in the post-consumer chain such as processing industries, recycling collectives, academia and government, among others. We know that our packaging also involves greater complexity for its reuse due to the fatty residue, so in these groups we also work on strengthening the installed capacity and cooperation among actors to find solutions to the technological and operational challenges we face.

In Chile, we are founding partners of the GIRO Collective Management System and partners of the RESIMPLE and PROREP collectives to finance the operation of household waste recovery and monitor compliance with the collection and recovery goals established by the EPR law, which will begin in 2023. In Colombia, through our participation in the Vision 30/30 collective and with the efforts of 333 related production companies, we were able to collect and use 58,276 tons of packaging waste, representing 12% of the packaging placed on the market in the base year 2019, meeting the national goal.