Hey! We've completed our second carbon footprint assessment, and today we'd like to share what we've learned from it. The real goal of a carbon footprint assessment is to use it as a tool for learning and improvement. So here's the lowdown!
The key to reducing our carbon emissions: reuse!
Our carbon emissions increased by 4% between our 2021 and 2023 assessments. We generated 476 tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2023. That's understandable, as we've grown. Although we shouldn't settle for that, what's interesting to note is that emissions related to our bottles fell by 18%. And all this is thanks to reusing our bottles!
Our transport-related emissions also fell by 8% thanks to the increasing number of cargo bike, barge, zero-waste, etc. deliveries
Economic intensity
What's also great about this second assessment is that it shows that economic intensity was lower in 2023 than in 2021.
Economic intensity is the ratio of our CO2 equivalent emissions to our turnover for the reference year. This means that each euro of turnover produces, on average, less CO2 than in 2021.
And we can truly conclude that this is thanks to reuse and therefore to the efforts made by all our customers. Whether you're a distributor, restaurateur, grocery store, or end customer, by taking part in reuse, you have contributed to this. So well done and THANK YOU 😉
That said, it's not all sunshine and rainbows. Our business travel-related emissions increased significantly. The team is larger and we have expanded into exports. We also have more equipment and spend more on services. We will update our impact report on our website oeforgood.com to provide you with more details on this.
Oé's action plan
And finally, we're sharing our (very simplified) action plan to go further and always do our best to reduce our carbon footprint:
👉🏼 Further expand bottle reuse & bottle as many products as possible using reused bottles
👉🏼 Put rosés in antique bottles (would you be ready for that? 😏)
👉🏼 Continue to favor low-emission transport: cargo bikes, cargo sailboats, barges, etc.
👉🏼 Incorporate the functional economy into our business
👉🏼 Deliver as much as possible on zero-waste pallets
To go further...
If you want to play around with the data and understand how CO2e really works, Nos gestes climat offers a quick tool to raise awareness about the challenges of global warming.
We're counting on you to continue committing alongside us 🩷
The Oé team
