WELCOME CEO statement 2020 Dear reader, No commentary about 2020 would be appropriate without first mentioning the Coronavirus pandemic and the effect this has had, and will continue to have, on the global population. It is now just over a year since the pandemic started to have truly worldwide consequences, and during that time we have all been made acutely aware of several important things: Firstly, how we are all globally interconnected and reliant upon one another. We have learnt that our own actions can and do affect both those in our immediate communities, but also those thousands of miles away. Secondly, the health and wellbeing of our families and colleagues is absolutely paramount to a well-functioning business and the worldwide economy as a whole. This has never been more apparent than during this pandemic. The aforementioned aspects of the pandemic have helped to confirm our belief that Palsgaards’ commitment to decarbonising our energy usage and continuing to support and lobby for sustainable farming practises for our raw materials is both the right thing morally, but also economically. We will also continue to examine our international travel activity, with 2020 proving that whilst in-person meetings are often optimal, on many occasions online and video-call meetings can be optimised to provide a suitable alternative and further reduce our reliance on air transportation. Another aspect of our "Good Growth Strategy" is the continuation of auditing and assisting our main suppliers to practise sustainable sourcing. Post-pandemic this area will have even more focus. Our commitment to ensuring the health and wellbeing of our own staff, and those visiting Palsgaard locations around the world will be further enhanced. As well as corona-virus specific initiatives, we have increased our focus on work related accidents and the reporting of near misses. We have made large strides in reducing our overall global accident frequency and will continue this work to ensure Palsgaard becomes an even safer place to work. Palsgaard has been a UNGC signatory since 2011, having committed to adopting the ten UNGC principles in our strategy, culture and day-to-day operations. We will continue to reporting annually on our progress and supporting the UNGC. In our new "Good Growth Strategy 2025" document, we have the aim of being a CO2-neutral enterprise by the end of 2025. This will require further large investments including establishing a solar park near Palsgaard in Denmark, and a waste-water facility to generate biogas, which will help to power our Danish site with 100% green energy by mid-decade. We are proud of our achievements highlighted in this document, which were made under challenges unlike any we had faced in living memory. In 2021 further opportunities will present themselves – the journey is everlasting, and very much part of the DNA of Palsgaard. We are proud to have further reduced our overall energy consumption in 2020 by 5% per kg finished product, this is in addition to the energy improvements we have made in previous years. Anders Brix Group CEO Schou Foundation Palsgaard 25 May 2021 Jakob Thøisen CEO Palsgaard A/S Palsgaard 25 May 2021 Our journey to the 2020 targets We are proud to announce that Palsgaard has almost accomplished our targets for 2020. Regrettably, the exception is too many work accidents. We are, however, highly focused on work-related accidents and near misses to reduce the number. A new CSR strategy "Good Growth", with updated CSR targets and KPIs is in progress. We maintain our focus on work-related accidents as well as climate. What we strive for next is to become a CO 2 -neutral enterprise globally by looking into GHG scope 3. Equally, the use of sustainable raw materials from responsible suppliers becomes even more important to us. Figure 1 Core CSR figures and targets CO 2 -emission (kg CO 2 per kg finished product) Energy consumption (gross) (kWh per kg finished product) Water consumption (l per kg finished product) Accident frequency (per million working hours) 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 0.12 0.11 0 0 0 1.27 1.21 1.12 1.07 1.01 3.74 3.36 3.34 2.92 2.88 13 20 11 9 8 Target 2020 0 1.05 3.17 3 5
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