Hamburg, August 6, 2021 – Beiersdorf is systematically continuing its path towards greater sustainability, including in the sphere of activity of its production facilities. From 2022, the company will stop using fossil fuels at its Berlin plant, thereby further reducing its carbon footprint by using biomethane instead of natural gas.
As part of its sustainability agenda CARE BEYOND SKIN, Beiersdorf has defined the vision of a “Climate Positive Future” for its Consumer business and has set itself the ambitious goal of operating all production facilities in a climate-neutral manner by 2030. Direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1-3) are to be reduced by 30% in absolute terms as early as 2025. Since 2019, all production and office sites worldwide have been sourcing 100% of their electricity from renewable energy sources (Scope 2). With the switch to biomethane, the Berlin plant now also generates the heating and process heat from renewable resources directly on site for its operations, thus reducing Scope 1 emissions.
“We want to live up to our responsibility as a manufacturing and globally active company and are consistently aligning our actions with our vision of a ‘Climate Positive Future’ and our ambitious targets. To this end, we are working intensively to reduce our emissions. We have a great deal of leverage for this at our production sites. Alongside the purchase of green electricity and energy efficiency measures, the switch to biogas is another step that we are very pleased about,” says Malte Schulz, Vice President Supply Chain Europe.