Ambev, the largest brewery in Brazil and brands such as Skol and Brahma, as well as other alcoholic and non -alcoholic beverages, can be an example of companies’ challenges to cut gas emissions that cause global warming.
The company reduced the emissions of scope 1 and 2 by 50% (from the operations themselves and the energy consumed, respectively), through the use of renewable sources. However, scope 3 are still missing, which encompass the entire production chain of the field until the discard of the cans and bottles and accounts for 89% of the emissions. The goal is to reach zero by 2040.
In an interview with Estadão, Ambev’s director of sustainability Luiz Gustavo Talarico explains more about this program and how the company operates on other environmental issues, such as water use and agriculture. Check out the main excerpts.
Ambev was able to reduce scope emissions 1 and 2 by 50%. What is the expected way to cut the rest of the emissions of these two scopes?
We have already been able to reduce these 63% of the company’s direct emissions. It is a job that has been coming since 2002, when we started working with biogas recovery in our operation. We have a technical staff within our industrial team that looks at the best practices, so we have also worked with other energy sources. The same way is efficiency, so first reduce the amount of energy use to then find alternative forms.
What are the initiatives?
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To work with our suppliers, we have a platform called Eclipse. Eclipse is a platform for collaborating and sharing information with our suppliers and our business partners. Today we have monitoring of the entire chain, but with these suppliers we work to first engage where they are on the climate journey-for example, who already has a specific department for climate change, who already has goals and ambitions, who already has an audited greenhouse gas inventory.
Why the goal of zeroing emissions by 2040?
The goal is very based on what we have studied, looking at science and the ecosystem as a whole. We understand our speed of our own decarbonization, we know that 89% of our emissions are not directly from our chain. The goal is to 2040 comes a lot on the difficulty of having a chain where some things still depend a lot on fossil fuels. It has ways to reach gradual reductions. It had a carbon emission intensity for each liter of drink produced, we have to produce this same amount of products with 25% less emissions. We are in the ways for that.
