HKScan has up to date the local weather emissions calculation, local weather goal and timeline of its accountability programme to raised align with global local weather paintings pointers, calculation pointers and reporting requirements. HKScan’s revised local weather goal is to succeed in web 0 for all greenhouse fuel emissions through 2050.
Lately, law, global pointers and necessities for all the worth chain have greater considerably. HKScan has due to this fact deepened its local weather paintings measures, revised its emission calculation and up to date the Crew’s local weather goals consistent with a world scientifically verifiable and similar definition.
Aiming for important cuts in greenhouse fuel emissions
HKScan’s number one means to achieve web 0 through 2050 is to seriously scale back total greenhouse fuel emissions. To succeed in this function, greenhouse fuel cuts will have to be complemented through sturdy carbon removals, both via nature or technological answers. The purpose is to get rid of the rest emissions and thus succeed in a 0 degree of emissions affects.
Emissions from land use and its alternate in addition to the entire meals chain taken into consideration
The revised local weather calculation presentations that about 1 according to cent of HKScan’s overall emissions are generated through its personal operations and 99 according to cent through different portions of the meals chain. It’s due to this fact crucial to be mindful emissions from land use and its alternate in addition to all the meals chain.
HKScan has performed long-term and made up our minds local weather paintings all the way through the meals chain. The corporate’s earlier local weather goal was once a carbon-neutral meals chain from farms to customers through 2040.
“Our goal has now been prolonged to be mindful the affect of land use and its adjustments, and our paintings will proceed with even larger decision. With our revised emissions calculation and local weather goal, we give a contribution to the objectives of the Paris Local weather Settlement and in addition meet the brand new necessities for the land use sector,” says Hanna Lehtonen, VP Company Duty at HKScan Company. “HKScan’s local weather paintings is guided through a complete set of measures. It is composed of dozens of measurable local weather emission relief measures outlined through our Trade Gadgets. We’re shifting against web 0 local weather emissions along side our contract farmers and different companions.”
Close to-term and land based totally local weather goals authorized through SBTi
HKScan is likely one of the first Nordic meals corporations to have specified the near-term goals each for commercial power utilization and for the land sector (Woodland, Land and Agriculture =FLAG).
In keeping with the near-tern local weather goals which were authorized through SBTi, HKScan commits to scale back its absolute Scope 1 and a pair of GHG emissions for power and commercial through 42 according to cent through 2030 from a 2022 base yr. HKScan additionally commits to scale back its absolute Scope 3 emissions from particular classes through 42 according to cent inside of the similar time frame. The objective additionally comprises land-related emissions from bioenergy feedstocks.
As well as, HKScan commits to scale back land based totally absolute Scope 3 FLAG GHG emissions through 30.3 according to cent from a base yr 2022. HKScan additionally commits to no deforestation throughout its number one deforestation-linked commodities.
“The SBTi approval of our goals is essential. The SBTi lets in us to ensure the relevance and result of our personal local weather paintings on a world scale and to raised goal and lead our personal paintings. Local weather paintings is a long-term procedure and tracking effects is tricky. Global benchmarking is in reality vital and motivates us to stay going when growth is visual and effects are tangible. Global popularity is particularly rewarding in our difficult {industry} for the reason that standards are very strict,” Hanna Lehtonen says.
The Science Primarily based Goals initiative (SBTi) is a world organisation that is helping corporations determine their emission discounts consistent with the goals of local weather science and the Paris Settlement. The purpose is to restrict the worldwide temperature upward thrust to one.5 levels Celsius. SBTi prolonged its industry-specific local weather goal bundle for the land use sector, i.e. agriculture, forestry and different land use. The extension become efficient in Might 2023. The brand new FLAG steering considers land use and everlasting land conversion for agricultural use through, e.g. clearing the woodland flooring, right through the previous two decades.
January 25, 2024 – HKScan