Rémy Cointreau has reduced its carbon footprint per bottle by 9% this year
Since the signature of the Paris climate accords (COP 21) in 2015, Rémy Cointreau has made reducing its carbon footprint a core strategic aim to take active steps towards halting global warming.
In 2021, the Group announced it is officially committed to the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) and has joined the "Business Ambition for 1.5°C" initiative, which brings together corporate leaders with the most ambitious SBTs.
This commitment aims to reach net zero by 2050 - a target that means reducing the Group’s own emissions by 90%, and cutting emissions per bottle by 50% as an interim goal.
For a successful net zero transition, Rémy Cointreau must reduce the carbon impact of every single stage in the creation of its champagne and spirits, from field to waste management (agricultural raw materials, distilling and green packaging design, transport and waste).
This is a big challenge, considering that scopes 1 & 2 (emissions that the Group controls directly) make up a mere 5% of its total carbon footprint, whereas scope 3 (emissions by partners up and down the value chain over which the Group has little control) accounts for 95%. This is why the Group works so closely with all its partners (farmers, glassmakers and transporters) to reach this bold and ambitious target.
To reduce its environmental impact, Rémy Cointreau has stepped up efforts across the value chain and set priorities based on three main levers: packaging (41% of the Group’s total carbon footprint), energy and agricultural raw materials (28%) and transport (17%).
In 2021/2022, these reduction steps amounted to nearly 13,000 tonnes of CO2, which shrank the Group’s carbon footprint by 9% per bottle compared with the previous year. The more than 200 actions under way could cut CO2 emissions further, by 20,000 tonnes in total, over the next three years.
Target
-50%
CO2 reduction per bottle by 2030
