Ingredient supplier Corbion unveiled its newly updated Climate Action Roadmap, aiming to spark greater collaboration and knowledge sharing among manufacturers worldwide. The roadmap provides a detailed breakdown of concrete actions taken so far, and defines the steps ahead to achieve its recently revised, more aggressive, science-based emission reduction targets.

“A target without a plan for achieving it is just an idea,” said Diana Visser, senior director-sustainability at Corbion. “We are determined to put our ideas into action and share those ideas in a collaborative way with our customers and stakeholders. If climate change were just a concept and not something harming people and economies around the world, perhaps words would suffice. But the only thing that makes a difference is what we do.”

The plan recaps Corbion's sustainability journey and progress made since 2016, which, in the first five years, resulted in a 27% reduction in Scope I, II and III emissions per ton of product. From that point, seeing opportunities for even greater reductions, Corbion set new, more ambitious targets, which were validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) last year.

The recently published roadmap summarizes key considerations in every segment of Corbion's overall value chain and outlines current and completed initiatives, including numerous efforts through which Corbion is collaborating with suppliers and partners to reduce impacts throughout the supply chain. In fact, Corbion ranked in the top 8% of companies on the 2022 CDP Supplier Engagement Leaderboard for its work with suppliers to mitigate climate change.

Covered in Corbion's Climate Action Roadmap are a transition to renewable energy, radical process development, supplier engagement and raw material certification, reduction of transport emissions, elimination of waste sent to landfill, sustainability performance transparency and active promotion of climate action.

“We are working with our customers, suppliers and sustainability experts around the world, sharing information and ideas, and creating solutions grounded in reality in order to make the greatest impact possible. Anything less puts our shared future at risk,” Visser said.

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