The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a global organization enabling companies to establish ambitious emissions reduction targets in line with the latest climate science, recently validated Avril's carbon reduction plan.
This initiative endorses Avril's commitment towards reducing GHG emissions from its scopes 1 and 2 by a minimum of 28% by 2030 compared to the 2019 baseline year. The Group also set itself a 30% reduction target. Avril also undertakes, within the same timeframe, to reduce by 30% the GHG emissions of the main items in its scope 3* per tonne of product manufactured.
Jean-Philippe Puig, CEO of Avril, "SBTi's validation of our decarbonization objectives is an achievement of which we are all very pleased. Our objectives are the culmination of a voluntary and ambitious Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy pursued jointly by Avril and its business units. The creation of a dedicated steering committee, bringing together the Group's finance, purchasing, and operations teams, will enable us to accelerate our efforts in terms of climate strategy, in line with the commitments of our purpose, Serving the Earth."
*Avril's main Scope 3 items derive from purchased goods and services, equipment, fuels, upstream energy-related activities, transport and distribution of waste generated by its operations, employee travel and business trips, downstream transport and distribution, and end-of-life processing of products sold.