our strategy valuing our natural capital

At Engro, we have consistently maintained a multi layered approach for natural capital management, comprising of our operations, our impacts, and our commitments. We believe that responsible operations will always result in sustained and improved environmental outcomes. Keeping in view the multitude of challenges that in our operations primarily in the Fertilizers, Chemicals, Energy and Agricultural businesses, we are constantly reflecting upon the intended environmental impacts and risks associated to the external and internal environment. We also strive to monitor and reduce our negative impacts and bring sustained improvement in our positive impacts with an active commitment and governance structure at each tier of management. This includes a structured approach on adherence to all local laws and applicable standards, classification and regular appraisal of our environmental footprints, and to continuously endeavor towards conservation of natural resources through efficient technology and behavioral change.

our measured performance

overview

We will term the reporting year of 2020, as the year of precision, responsibility and efficient impact navigation. We also want to highlight that our energy businesses at ‘Thar’ that includes coal mining and power generation under Engro Energy limited have achieved a certain degree of maturity and this has allowed us to account for and map their extended environmental footprint.

We consider managing this extended footprint at an accelerated pace as a matter of utmost strategic priority. Apart from these two businesses that saw considerable growth in production, the rest of our subsidiaries showed marginal positive and negative production rates and consequently their individual environmental indicators also showed similar trend.

Our total energy consumption stood at approximately 147 million GJ, a significant increase of 47% as compared to 2019. However, a major part of this increase in 2020 energy consumption is from our coal-based electricity generation unit in Thar consuming about 101 million GJs of energy that is about 91% more than 2019. Our total GHG emissions have been summed up to approximately, 7.58. million tons, this is a major increase as compared to our emissions reported in 2019 i.e. 2.718 million tons. This is principally attributed to our businesses associated with coal mining and power generation at Thar. Our coal-based energy unit in Thar is reporting its scope 1 GHG emissions for the first time and our coal mining business for the first time has included fugitive emissions as scope 1, GHG emissions in this reporting year. We have also managed to reduce and remove approximately 3,875 tons of Carbon Dioxide emissions in the current reporting year by technology upgrades, forestation and renewable energy initiatives. We are proud of our vertical, Engro Enfrashare, which is not part of this year’s natural capital reporting but has produced 151,800 of clean energy units by solarizing 446 remote telecom sites from November 2018.