Commitment to Renewing Life
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Climate change is a major global challenge. According to the Annual Report on Global Risks of the World Economic Forum¹, the most likely risks in the next ten years are the failure of climate action (1st place) and meteorological extremes (2nd place). The planet has been registering temperature increases, especially due to anthropic actions that promote the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), resulting in a series of impacts² on natural ecosystems and communities, and the development of economic activities.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its Climate Change and Land³ report, describes that "in all assessed modeled pathways that limit warming to 1.5°C or well below 2°C require terrestrial mitigation and land use change, with most including different combinations of reforestation, afforestation, deforestation reduction and bioenergy with high confidence."
Suzano has a significant forest base, with a total area of approximately 2.6 million hectares, which includes eucalyptus plantations (afforestation) and one of the largest privately protected native forest areas in Brazil (conservation and reforestation), with approximately 1 million hectares. For the coming years, we have strategies for. Together, conservation areas and eucalyptus plantations contribute directly to removing and storing carbon dioxide (CO₂).
We understand that everyone has a role to play in combating climate change, and the integrated operation of our business - linking our forests to our industrial units - places us as central players in advancing this agenda. Understanding the importance of effective short-term measures, Suzano reaffirmed its commitment to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits and announced the anticipation in five years from 2030 to 2025 the goal of 40 million tonnes of CO₂e from the atmosphere. We are committed to doing more than neutralizing direct and chain emissions. Our goal is to remove additional, significant amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, thereby contributing to mitigating the global climate crisis.
In 2022, from the balance between our Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions (fossil) and the removals (anthropogenic biogenic) coming from our planted and conserved forests, we obtained a balance of +2,084,729 tonnes of carbon emissions (anthropogenic biogenic). It is expected that there will be a variation over the years because the value varies according to the emissions (Scope 1, 2, and 3) and the volume of removals related, in turn, to forest management, the volume of wood in the field and the increase in our conservation areas. Considering this variation between years, the commitment to remove 40 million tonnes of carbon was developed.
Thus, the result of +2,084,729 tonnes of emissions in 2022 is added to the 2020 and 2021 results of -15,200,312 of CO₂e and -8,896,258 ton CO₂e removed from the atmosphere respectively⁵, resulting in an accumulation of -22,011,839 ton CO₂e of removals.
In 2022, Suzano planted a significant amount of eucalyptus, which will have its removals reported in the 2024 inventory, two years after planting, according to the premise of the methodology. In the balance are planting (with age equal to or greater than two years), forest growth, harvesting, and forest base management of the current year. Thus, the 2022 variation is aligned with the harvesting and wood supply strategy to meet production demand, in parallel with a movement to expand the forest base that will provide the company with greater resilience and long-term wood supply, in line with its business strategy.
Both GHG emissions and removals in 2022 were third-party verified.
KPI Follow-up: | 2020 | 2021⁹ | 2022 |
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tCO₂e | tCO₂e | tCO₂e | |
CO₂ balance |
-15,200,312.00 |
-24,965,691.15 |
-22,011,839.41 |
Suzano will continue with its forestry-based expansions, in line with its positioning strategy for the pulp and bioproducts market, as well as its conservation and ecological restoration program, which will result in increased removals over the years, contributing to the achievement of this Commitment to Renewing Life.
Increase water availability in all the critical watersheds¹ in Suzano's areas of operation by 2030 and reduce by 15% the water captured in our industrial operations...
Connect half a million hectares of priority areas for biodiversity conservation in the Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, and Amazon.
Make available 10 million tons of renewable-source products that can replace plastic and other petroleum-based products by 2030.
Remove 40 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere by 2025; Reduce by 15% the intensity of the Greenhouse Gas emissions of scopes 1 and 2, per ton of production...
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Climate change is a major global challenge. According to the Annual Report on Global Risks of the World Economic Forum¹, the most likely risks in the next ten years are the failure of climate action (1st place) and meteorological extremes (2nd place). The planet has been registering temperature increases, especially due to anthropic actions that promote the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), resulting in a series of impacts² on natural ecosystems and communities, and the development of economic activities.
Allied with the need to act in mitigation and adaptation to climate change, the private sector has been assuming a leading role in this agenda and seeking to understand how these issues affect its economic-financial performance and which business strategies can respond to the predicted temperature increase scenarios. This includes risks and opportunities associated with a climate change resilient and low carbon economy - i.e., oriented to capital generation with less GHG emission intensity.
Seeking efficiency in its processes, Suzano has historically reduced the emissions associated with its production considerably. With a degree of renewability in the energy matrix³ greater than 88% (scope 1), the company's GHG emissions intensity indicators per ton of product produced are currently one of the lowest in the sector, as evidenced by the Transition Pathway Initiative⁴. Suzano already has a low-intensity indicator when compared to its main market competitors.
We understand that fighting climate change⁵ is everyone's role, and the integrated operation of our business - which unites our forests and industrial units - places us as central players in advancing this agenda. Therefore, ensuring that we continue to work on decarbonizing our operations inspires us to develop better solutions.
The sum of emissions resulting from our production process (Scope 1) and the acquisition of electricity (Scope 2), mapped annually in the Greenhouse Gas Inventory⁶, compared to the volume of finished products.
Our emissions intensity target is aligned with the Paris Agreement, established in 2015. According to the Transition Pathway Initiative, our emissions intensity is already one of the lowest in the industry.
In 2022, our emissions intensity (Scopes 1 and 2) per ton of production was 0.1962 tCO₂e/t⁵. There was an accumulated reduction of 8% in 2022, which represents an advance of 53.5% toward achieving the target.
Suzano had a stable production year, with no representative variation compared to 2021.
The emissions had a slight increase influenced by the mobile categories and agricultural activities due to the consolidation of the forest base and a reduction in emissions from industrial machinery in line with modernization processes and efficiency gains.
For energy imports (Scope 2), the units that operate with electricity consumption had a reduction in total emissions since the average emission factor for electricity offered in the National Interconnected System by the Ministry of Science and Technology and Innovations (MCTIC) of Brazil decreased by 66% due to the increase in electricity generation by renewable sources in 2022.
Thus, the company presented a 2% increase in Scope 1 emissions and a 64% reduction in Scope 2 emissions, representing an absolute global reduction (Scope 1 + 2) of 1.5% and a global reduction of the intensity of 1.7% (Scope 1 + 2/production).
The reduction in intensity was higher than that of absolute emissions, following the commitment to maximize efficiency and productivity with lower emissions intensity.
The amount of product considered in the indicator's denominator is in tons. It is important to note that the value represents the sum of the total production of pulp, paper, and consumer goods. This number differs from the production figures disclosed in financial statements, which present the volumes finished and made available to the market.
Our ambition was built using historical data from the former Fibria and Suzano Papel e Celulose. In practice, after the merger, the company became more efficient. The integration of the industrial and forestry processes in the regions where the two companies operated generated gains in efficiency that were reverted into a decrease in our emissions.
KPI Follow-up: | Scope 1 and 2 emissions (tCO₂e) | Results achieved: tCO₂e/t emissions |
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tCO₂e | tCO₂e/t | |
2015 |
2,140,620.90 |
0.2133 |
2016 |
2,073,041.38 |
0.2066 |
2017 |
2,146,946.14 |
0.2005 |
2018 |
2,330,110.60 |
0.1930 |
2019 |
2,213,636.48 |
0.2002 |
2020 |
2,214,634.59 |
0.1929 |
2021 |
2,466,158.17 |
0.1995 |
2022 |
2,427,520.84 |
0.1962 |
Suzano will continue to execute initiatives and projects to increase the efficiency of its operations and reduce consumption of fossil fuels, seeking to increase its renewable energy matrix, which currently exceeds 88% for Scope 1. One example is the increased use of biomass and black liquor in energy generation and use of new technologies, such as gasification, in the new plant under construction (Cerrado Project).
We will also continue with our strategy of executing initiatives and projects to increase efficiency in operations and reduce consumption of fossil fuels, such as the Master Plan for the Jacareí (SP) plant and modernizations in Aracruz (ES).
As signatories of the Business Ambition for 1.5°C¹⁰, Race to Zero¹¹ and Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi⁹), we are in the process of analyzing the current methodologies and those under development, such as the SBTi Flag, which may be revised after the publication of the GHG Protocol Land Sector and Removals and the update of the Sectoral Decarbonization Approach tool (1.5°C) for the Pulp and Paper sector. In parallel, we are conducting studies of decarbonization scenarios aligned with the Paris Agreement Goals. We will continue to follow and monitor the publication and updating of methodologies for adapting our commitments.
Increase water availability in all the critical watersheds¹ in Suzano's areas of operation by 2030 and reduce by 15% the water captured in our industrial operations...
Connect half a million hectares of priority areas for biodiversity conservation in the Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, and Amazon.
Make available 10 million tons of renewable-source products that can replace plastic and other petroleum-based products by 2030.
Remove 40 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere by 2025; Reduce by 15% the intensity of the Greenhouse Gas emissions of scopes 1 and 2, per ton of production...