Well aware that we cannot solve climate change overnight, we combine long-term efforts to reduce emissions throughout our entire production chain with short-term activities that can be shared by many to make an environmental impact
At UPM, we have committed to reduce our CO2 emissions by 65% by year 2030. To make this a reality, we work on two time horizons to combat climate change. Through long-term efforts such as climate-positive forestry, novel products, and science-based reduction targets, we reduce emissions throughout our entire production chain. Short-term initiatives, like carbon offsetting, offer additional possibilities to make an environmental impact.
Carbon offsetting is a short-term action that compensates for CO2 emissions. At UPM Communication Papers, we support our customers in offsetting carbon emissions of paper or the paper end-product.
CO2 offsetting is not enough to stop or reverse climate change, but together with long-term efforts, it's a valid step to reduce greenhouse emissions and support low-carbon development in local communities.
We offer carbon offsetting on two different levels. Both approaches can be applied to any paper in our range.
Offsetting carbon emissions related to production and transport of paper.
Extended service offsetting total carbon emissions of the paper end-product.
To offset CO2 , we help our customers select projects and initiatives verified through the Gold Standard Foundation.
We focus on projects with high added value for local communities at the household level such as biogas, cook-stoves and clean water filters. We ensure that our customers' carbon offsetting efforts truly make a difference to people and the climate, without a hassle.
At UPM Communication Papers, we work short and long term to reduce our environmental impact. We have set a 65% carbon emissions reductions target until 2030 and joined the UN Business Ambition for 1.5 degrees. To meet these targets and achieve this ambition, for the first half of 2020, we have made a series of concrete investments to evolving the way we produce and reduce our footprint over time, building on reduced emissions, cleaner fuel mix and energy efficiency. At UPM Communication Papers, these investments will save 700,000 tonnes of CO2 per year and will reduce the carbon footprint of our products over the next ten years.
We understand, however, that consumers demand carbon neutral products here and now. UPM CO2ACT and UPM CO2ACT+ are services that enable our customers to offer carbon neutral paper products further to their customers.
The overall reduction target for UPM is to reduce our CO2 emissions by 65% year by 2030. To make this a reality, we focus on CO2 optimized energy production at our mill sites, renewable energy procurement and energy efficiency improvements at our mills.
Here four concrete examples from the first half of 2020:
These projects can reduce the carbon footprint of UPM by 700,000 tonnes annually.
Carbon offsetting through UPM CO2ACT and UPM CO2ACT+ services is part of our overall emission reduction approach. These services support customers in responding to consumer demand for carbon neutral products immediately.
For UPM CO2ACT, it is calculated based on using the actual production emissions, which are calculated following CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries) standards and third-party verified in our Paper Profiles. This includes all value chain emissions up to the mill, and the transport emissions from mill to your doorstep.
UPM CO2ACT+ offsets carbon emissions for the entire paper end-product. This covers offsetting of the same emissions as for UPM CO2ACT (production emissions, including all value chain emissions up to the mill, and the transport emissions from mill to your doorstep) plus the emissions of the printing or converting process.
To compensate CO2, we work with several projects all certified through the Gold Standard Foundation, such as biogas, cook-stoves and clean water filters projects. All of these projects generate permanent net CO2 savings and, in addition, improve the lives of the people and communities involved. Thereby we can safely say that CO2ACT and CO2ACT+ add value to the environment and to the societies where our projects are implemented.
The process is based on third-party verified carbon reduction projects and made transparent through the registration of all transactions, including partners, volumes and carbon credits retired, in the public registry of the Gold Standard Foundation. The Gold Standard certification for carbon projects is widely accepted, also by environmental NGOs, and considered to be the most robust certification for broad impact quantification. UPM CO2ACT and UPM CO2ACT+ customers can find the details of their individual retirement on a certificate provided for optimal transparency. Our customers receive detailed information about the chosen projects and can use this information in their communication.
Our projects are carefully selected on the basis of carbon emissions avoided. They all are technology-based and improve the carbon footprint of households and increase the well-being of families. On top of relying on the Gold Standard certification, our sustainability experts have spoken with all international and local project managers to ensure the quality of the projects. The projects have significant benefits over the standard large-scale, land-based projects such as wind energy, hydropower or forestry projects. Technology based projects avoid potential conflicts over land-use and as they are not limited to a specific land area, they hold a vast potential of expanding further, saving more carbon and improving more livelihoods.
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