Sediver carbon footprint

As part of our commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals, we are working on the decarbonization of our activities.

In July 2022, we launched our carbon footprint assessment, covering all three scopes defined in the norm 14064, with the support of all our teams across the organization (Operations, Supply Chain, HR, Finance, etc.).
This will serve as our baseline for our net-zero contribution roadmap and action plan.

Let us discover the results.

First, what is a carbon footprint assessment?

A carbon footprint assessment is an inventory of greenhouse gases emissions, occurring directly or indirectly due to the activities of an organization over a given period.

Calculating its corporate carbon footprint…

Scope of our carbon footprint assessment:

• Reporting period: full year 2021
• Methodology: BEGES (Bilan des Emissions de Gaz à Effet de Serre – GHG emissions assessment) in line with ISO 14064
• Organizational scope: all direct emissions (sources controlled by the organization) and indirect emissions (sources required for the organization’s activities) of Sediver.
• Scopes 1 & 2: all emissions related to flows concerning activities directly controlled and operated by the company.
• Scope 3: all emissions related to flows concerning all other activities in the value chain (upstream, parallel, downstream)

Of course we included the full Scope 1 and 2 of our activities, but also completed a thorough review of our Scope 3 upstream and downstream, including the distribution, use of our products and their end-of-life.

Our overall results & next steps

• Purchases (raw material and components) account for the biggest source of emissions of Sediver, which is closely correlated to our main production activities.
• The consumption of electricity in our industrial sites is the second biggest emission factor.
• The third biggest source is the end-of-life treatment process of our products.
• The transport of products and raw materials as well as industrial processes account for the other top sources of carbon emissions.

Today our 2030 decarbonization roadmap is being built with the following key levers:

• Continuously reduce our energy consumption
• Develop Renewable energy purchases
• Increase our products’ lifespan and develop eco-design solutions with our Customers
• Work with our Supply Chain to identify lower carbon alternatives (transportation, sourcing, localization)
• Industrialise products’ end-of-life recycling.