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Sustainability Report 2021
Company | Strategy & | Business & | Product & | Production & | Employees & | Society & Corporate | Targets Appendix |
Portrait | Management | Compliance | Innovation | Supply Chain | Employment | Responsibility |
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The ongoing global trend towards urbanisation and the intensive construction activity in the housing and infrastructure sectors call for sustainable solutions. We are delivering these solutions and, through our products, we are playing a leading role in paving the way to carbon neutrality.
In 2021, we anchored the core topic of sustainability even more firmly in | our | organisation with the appointment |
of Dr Nicola Kimm to the Managing Board as Chief Sustainability Officer. | We | are driving our sustainability agenda |
and accelerating on our ambitions. For example, we aim to generate half of our Group revenue from sustainable products by 2030. In order to achieve this, we have once again significantly tightened our globally applicable climate targets with the publication of this report in May 2022: by 2030, we want to almost halve our carbon emissions compared with our 1990 levels. With a new reduction target to reach 400 kg of CO2 per tonne of cementitious material in 2030, HeidelbergCement is setting new standards in the decarbonisation of our industry.
We look at the entire supply chain in our efforts to reduce our carbon emissions. Our CO2 reduction strategy is based on solid measures at plant and product levels, the implementation of which is well underway. In addition, we are making use of innovative carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) technologies: our facility in Brevik, Norway is scheduled to go into operation as early as 2024. By 2030 we will have launched further projects at Edmonton in Canada, Padeswood in the United Kingdom, and Slite in Sweden, among other locations. With the
Introduction current CCUS projects alone, we aim to cut our carbon emissions by 10 million tonnes cumulatively by 2030. By joining the First Movers Coalition, we are also recognising our responsibility as a purchaser of green products and
services.
But global challenges can only be solved by working together. That is why, as a partner of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), we are committed to its ten principles in the areas of environmental protection, corruption prevention, labour standards, and human rights. Taking these principles into account and promoting them both within our corporate strategy and in all our business activities is particularly important to us. And so we ask you, our shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, business partners, and local community representatives, to join us as we take the path towards sustainable and digital transformation!
Yours sincerely,
Dr Dominik von Achten
Chairman of the Managing Board
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
At HeidelbergCement's more than 3,000 locations, sustainability is an integral part of our day-to-day business. Thanks to the great commitment of our employees, we made very good progress in 2021. We further reduced our carbon emissions through improvements in our product mix, a lower proportion of clinker, and increased use of alternative fuels as well as green energy sources. To meet the needs of our customers, we launched numerous sustainable products in our markets around the world.
We aim to spearhead the decarbonisation of our sector and promote a circular economy in our value chain. Closing the loop in the material cycle of sand, aggregates, and cement stone is of crucial importance to us and constitutes a major lever for reducing carbon emissions. To increase resource efficiency and protect natural raw materials, we will also scale up our recycling activities, especially with regard to demolition concrete.
In addition to climate protection, issues such as responsible land use, water conservation, occupational health and safety, as well as social responsibility are among the key pillars of our Sustainability Commitments 2030, the guiding principles of HeidelbergCement's sustainability strategy. We also made significant progress in these areas in 2021. For example, we published a new version of our Code of Business Conduct in 2021 and emphasized the importance of human rights and sustainability aspects even more strongly. Through our Quarry Life Award, which was launched for the fifth time in 2021, we address the global loss of biodiversity - one of the three greatest risks to our planet according to the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report.
We are constantly developing our sustainability reporting in order to increase transparency and create a solid basis for dialogue with you, our stakeholders. In the months and years to come, we will continue to work diligently to drive the issue of sustainability forward - in our strategy as well as in all day-to-day business processes and decisions. I look forward to you being at our side as we do so.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Nicola Kimm
Chief Sustainability Officer
Member of the Managing Board
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Contents
Company | Strategy & | Business & | Product & | Production & | |||||
Portrait | Management | Compliance | Innovation | Supply Chain | |||||
06 | Organisational structure | 10 | Vision & mission | 32 | Legal compliance | 39 | Focus on customers | 49 | Environmental management |
07 | Value chain | 10 | Sustainability Commitments 2030 | 32 | Business performance | 40 | Research & development | 50 | Energy & climate protection |
08 | Vertical integration | 13 | Significant reduction in emissions | 34 | Compliance management | 44 | Sustainable products | 57 | Reduction of Scope 2 emissions |
by 2030 | 57 | Alternative fuels | |||||||
14 | Our path to carbon neutrality | 58 | Land use & biodiversity | ||||||
by 2050 | 61 | Local environmental impact | |||||||
14 | Responsibility & organisation | 63 | Management of supplier | ||||||
15 | Challenges & strategy | relations | |||||||
16 | Stakeholder engagement | ||||||||
21 | TCFD report |
Employees & | Society & Corporate | Targets | Appendix | ||||
Employment | Responsibility | ||||||
66 | Principles | 78 | Social responsibility | 82 | Strategy & Management | 88 | Key figures |
67 | Employment & | 79 | Social engagement at our | 82 | Business & Compliance | 98 | About this report |
co-determination | locations | 83 | Product & Innovation | 99 | GRI content index | ||
67 | Remuneration policy & | 83 | Production & Supply Chain | 105 | Imprint | ||
working time regulation | 85 | Employees & Employment | |||||
68 | Occupational health & safety | 86 | Society & Corporate Responsibility | ||||
72 | Human resources development | ||||||
75 | Diversity management |
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Company Portrait
06 Organisational structure
07 Value chain
08 Vertical integration
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