Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

Nestlé in society:
Creating Shared Value
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and wellness Rural development Water
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sustainability
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people
G4-EN19, Transport G4-DMA, G4-EN30
Improving our warehousing
Our objective
By 2020 – Reduce GHG emissions per tonne of product
by 10% in the 100 major warehouses we use versus 2014.
With lighting consuming up to 50% of the energy used in an
ambient (i.e. unheated or uncooled) site, our warehouses
present another opportunity to find operational efficiencies
and cost savings, particularly with regard to energy use and
GHG emissions. We focus on finding ways to make layouts
and internal movements more efficient and to cut costs by
improving lighting, heating, cooling and insulation.
One of our new objectives is to cut GHG emissions per
tonne of product from our top 100 warehouses by 10% by
2020. In 2014 (the most recent data we have at the time of
publication), we generated approximately 354 000 tonnes of
GHG emissions from our warehousing. As our baseline year
for reporting progress is 2014, we will report on progress
against this objective next year.
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In an attempt to improve the environmental performance of
our distribution centres in Toluca and Lagos de Moreno in
Mexico, we have taken advantage of natural conditions by
installing prismatic domes in the roofs to capture more natural
light and solar panels to generate energy. This provides about
a quarter (26%) of the energy used by the distribution centres,
reducing electricity costs by 21%. It has also cut annual CO 2
emissions by 4700 tonnes, the equivalent of taking more than
14 600 cars off the road.
In China, we have also seen the benefits of improved
warehousing. The Hsu Fu Chi distribution centre in Dongguan
was using 920 000 kWh of electricity in 2013 and emitting 918
tonnes of CO 2 . Efforts were made to reduce costs and improve
environmental performance by enhancing natural lighting on
site, and halving CO 2 emissions to 459 tonnes a year. Similarly,
when business growth required a relocation of the Central
Distribution Centre, Nestlé worked with logistics company
Kintetsu World Express (KWE) to replace conventional lighting
with energy-saving LEDs. We also installed 1890 roof-top solar
panels. These generate 567 000 kWh of electricity a year –
45% for on-site use and the rest sold to the local grid – and
they have reduced CO 2 emissions by 445 tonnes.
GHG emissions from warehousing – estimated tonnes
2014 354000 *
2013 375000
2012 374 000
*
The 2014 figures are the latest available at the time of publication.
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