Sustainability progress report 2017 - 2020

Climate Changes

Carbon Neutrality And Leading The Way

While focusing on reducing our entire GHG emissions as a priority, we also want to take responsibility for all the emissions generated by our business activities.

Which is why we’re offsetting the Group’s remaining annual GHG emissions in Scopes 1, 2 and 3 of the GHG Protocol through REDD+, which protects critical forest and biodiversity around the world, as well as supports local communities’ livelihoods.

As of 2018, the entire Group became carbon neutral within our operations and across the entire supply chain.

We have continued to shift from offsetting to insetting and created positives outcomes in the regions where our Tier 4 suppliers are located. Here are some examples:

  • We supported reforestation in Guyana in our gold supply chain covering 116 hectares of Amazonian forest and also tree-planting for 214,780 trees (a 4-year project starting in 2018).
  • We helped improve soil and carbon sequestration in cotton fields in China: we want to expand this pilot to engage more cotton farmers in this region through an insetting agroforestry mechanism.
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