Live Long Environment
Becoming carbon neutral by 2025
Our environmental challenges
All of the operations in our value chain, from cocoa cultivation to chocolate manufacturing and distribution, generate environmental impacts that the company is committed to minimizing.
Our environmental policy sets out the company's overarching ambitions for preserving the planet and achieving carbon neutrality by 2025. In addition to ensuring that our chocolate factory complies with the latest environmental regulations, this policy is accompanied by concrete actions concerning, for example, employee transport, waste management and eco-design.
Our objectives and progress
-57% of greenhouse gas emissions
since 2013. Objective for 2025: 60% reduction.
90% of waste recycled
Objective for 2025: 100%.
69% of renewable energies
in the energy mix. Objective for 2025: 79%.
79% of packaging
is recyclable. Objective for 2025: 85%.
75% new products
meet our eco-design criteria. Objective for 2025: 100%.
-11% of global waste production
Versus 2013. Objective for 2025: 50% reduction.
-51% of water consumption
Versus 2013. Objective for 2025: 50% reduction.
-31% of total energy consumption
Versus 2013. Objective for 2025: 50% reduction.
Carbon Neutrality
We are taking action against climate change. That's why our goal is to become carbon neutral from plantation to plate by 2025.
In 2013, we conducted our first carbon footprint report to get an idea of our emissions throughout our value chain and to fine-tune our initiatives.
In 2018, we updated our carbon footprint report to measure the impact of our actions and update our data.
Energy
Reducing our environmental impact involves two aspects: reducing our carbon footprint and reducing our energy consumption, all while promoting alternative energy sources.
As part of our efforts to be an exemplary manufacturer in terms of energy consumption, we are proud to say that for the past four years, 100% of our electricity has come from certified purchases of hydroelectric power.
Through these energy purchases under Guarantee of Origin Certificates, we help finance the renewable energy sector.
Transport
In order to limit its direct emissions, Valrhona has also adopted a transport policy that supports the reduction of GHG emissions linked to employee travel.
This approach also applies to the transport of our goods around the world, particularly by air.
This is why, since November 2019, we have been committed to the FRET21 approach in order to integrate this issue into our strategy to significantly reduce this type of greenhouse gas emission.
Water management
Minimizing our environmental footprint also means reducing our water consumption in our industrial activities.
In the manufacturing of its chocolates, Valrhona strives to limit its environmental impact, pollution and resource consumption.
We are now devoting particular attention to our water usage, with the specific objective of cutting our 2013 consumption rates in half by 2025.
Waste management
As a business that uses raw ingredients to make chocolate, we are making every effort to limit the amount of waste we produce and improve the ways we recycle and recover.
Our objectives for 2025: to achieve our target of recovering 100% of our waste, while cutting in half the amount we generate as compared to 2013.
Eco-design
Our aim is to offer our customers increasingly responsible products.
Our stakeholders judge our products’ quality and sustainability by their ingredients and recipes – but also by the packaging and materials they use.
Valrhona is working to ensure its products have an environmental design that completely lives up to customer expectations while also reducing our impact on the planet and its natural resources.
