Sustainability Flashcards
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Social responsabolity
Systembolaget
Risk analysis:
have identified human rights risks in the Italian wine industry through an assessment conducted by Oxfam. Among other things, Oxfam’s report pinpoints how Systembolaget can improve its processes.
Offered similar training for Swedish importers.
Created a framework for the purchase of beveragesfor the fixed range, which accounts for approximately 95 percent of Systembolaget’s sales.
The requirements in the Code of Conduct cover eleven areas:
Working hours
Fair remuneration
Terms of employment
Discrimination
Freedom of Association
Health and Safety
Forced labour
Child labour
Younger workers
Business ethics
Environment
Report system : In the past, there was no good channel for the local trade unions to use when they wanted to report deficiencies and abuses. We at Systembolaget are far away from the workers in the supply chain, which is an obstacle in itself. When we receive reports, they sometimes contain too little information for the matter to be investigated, and since we do not have a contact route to the person who reported it, it is difficult to move forward. The reporting system makes it more efficient to follow up and handle potential irregularities in our supply chain.
South Africa became the first country to test the new reporting system. For the local trade unions in South Africa, the challenges are several:
Employers are often negatively disposed to contact with trade unions
Only 3-5 percent of the workers are organized by a trade union.
We have received information that dogs, guards and cameras have made it increasingly difficult to visit the farms and meet the workers in recent years.
Environmental
Systembolaget 29 approved certifications.
cultivation and production, such as biodiversity, soil health, chemical use, water management, waste management, energy and clima
Wine society case study
The Wine Society’s carbon footprint =1.35kg of CO2e
per-bottle of wine
31% from the manufacture and disposal of glass wine bottles
* 21% from shipping wines to the UK and delivering to members doors
* 17% from the production of wine (vineyards and wineries)
* 11% from other packaging (such as cardboard boxes, stoppers and labels)
Actions
1. In 2024 we will launch a carbon removal programme. Instead of paying into an offsetting scheme to be
carbon neutral, we will invest the equivalent funds on nature-based projects in our suppliers’ vineyards.
The aim of these projects will be to capture and store carbon, reduce emissions and enhance
biodiversity, which all help in the fight against climate change.
Investing in carbon removal projects in our own supply chain (often called ‘insetting’) means we
directly support our wine producers, we can accurately measure impact and we can share learnings to
encourage others in the wine sector to do the same.
ongoing 24-28
Invest in renewable energy generation (solar)
Our goal is to generate 80% of the electricity we need to power our
offices and warehouses in Stevenage by 2028
Invest in low carbon delivery
Switch our own delivery fleet of 35 vans electric or another zeroemission option by 2028
Replace natural gas appliances
Switch our boilers and cookers to electric or
another zero-emission option by 2028
Cut greenhouse gas (GHG) leakage from air conditioning units and switch to low global warming potential refrigerant gases
Replace all older models with modern units by 2028
Long term 50% vy 2032
Reduce the environmentalimpact of ‘other’ packaging
such as card
From 2024, implement and enforce new packaging specifications for The Society and our suppliers based on reduction, recyclability,
recycled content and use of sustainable materials
Bulk-ship wines
From 2025 bulk-ship wines where it is more environmentally and
economically efficient to do so
Increase the volume of wines we sell in lower carbon packaging
In 2023, trial six of our bestselling wines in different
alternative packaging formats (such as bag-in-box).
From 2024, scale the most successful
Reduce the weight of glass wine bottles year-on-year
From the 2027 vintage, all of our range will be in bottles below 420g
93.4% of our emissions come from activities
throughout our value chain and therefore by
their very nature are harder to tackle. Reducing
our Scope 3 emissions requires working in
partnership with our suppliers, which is one of
the great strengths of The Wine Society
- Packaging is the area where we can make the greatest
carbon reductions in the shortest time - bottle weight: The
Wine Society has calculated that for every 20g
reduction in the average bottle weight of our full
range, we will reduce our carbon emissions by
around 150 tCO
2e per year. - impact of cardboard
Reducing the amount of cardboard we use
by 50% would result in an annual emissions
saving of 316 tCO2e (2% of our total footprint). - Alt packaging
For example, if 20% of the volume
of wines we sell were in BiB, it would reduce our
carbon emissions by 883 tCO2e per year.
dBulk shipment can
achieve carbon savings
in three ways:
* Weight savings by not shipping individual,
heavy glass bottles
* Space savings by using larger flexi-tanks (a
20-foot container can hold 9,000 litres of
wine in single glass bottles, compared to
24,000 litres of wine in a single flexi-tank)
* Using more environmentally efficient UK
bottling lines and being able to control the
use of lighter-weight bottles.
- Production
-Social and environmental requirements
-Regenarative farming‘strengthening the health and vitality
of farm soil, increasing biodiversity above
and below ground, improving the water cycle,
enhancing ecosystem services, supporting
carbon sequestration and increasing
resilience to climate change’
- supplier forum
-Introduce a Sustainability Scorecard for the wines we sell - Marketing materials
- Third pard logistics-in/outbound
limited laverage
