Environment performance indicators
DISCLOSURE ON MANAGEMENT APPROACH
Goals and performance
To Novozymes, the key parameter regarding negative environmental impact is production efficiency. Basic figures are water consumption and energy consumption and the latter is closely related to climate change. Now and in a long-term perspective, the overall goal is to continuously disassociate business growth and resource consumption. See also the specific targets for 2008 in the Board of Directors' report in the Novozymes Report 2007.
An important issue is the application of gene technology. For twenty years, gene technology has been an important tool for Novozymes’ innovation in R&D and for improved resource efficiency in the production of enzymes. As the use of gene technology can pose a risk, safety is a priority whenever it is applied at Novozymes. Modern biotechnology has great potential when it comes to meeting the challenges of sustainable development. Novozymes increasingly strives to document and to advance the positive environmental impact from the application of enzyme technology – from our customers’ application of our products.
With specific reference to biodiversity, please note that Novozymes does not manage land of significant size or importance.
Policy
For Novozymes’ overall commitment to environmental aspects, please refer to Novozymes’ environment and bioethics policy, position on antibiotic resistance genes in GMMs, and position on global warming and energy.
Organizational responsibility
The organization has a central Environmental Services unit and a number of decentralized units associated to production sites. Efforts on environmental performance are coordinated in Novozymes Environmental Forum (NEF). NEF is a network for management representatives from production sites and reports to corporate Quality Environment and Safety Management. One of the main purposes of NEF is to continuously improve performance via Novozymes’ environmental management system.
Monitoring and follow-up
A number of internal environmental tools and guidelines exist. Some of these are corporate and others are site-based to serve specific needs. For example, at Danish production sites use an energy management system linked to ISO 14001 and certified in accordance with a national Danish standard (DS 2403 E).
Approximately four yeas ago, Novozymes decided to take a more proactive approach in product positioning using knowledge and documentation gained from Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) of our products. The data will be used to document benefits in a sustainable development context. A number of LCAs on new products have been conducted. Results are reviewed by a third party and published in scientific journals. See also the section at Novozymes’ website on LCA .
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| EN1 | Materials used by weight or volume |
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| EN2 | Percentage of materials used that are recycled input materials |
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| Energy | ||||
| EN3 | Direct energy consumption by primary energy source |
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| EN4 | Indirect energy consumption by primary source |
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| EN5 ADD | Energy saved due to conservation and efficiency improvements |
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| EN6 ADD | Initiatives to provide energy-efficient or renewable energy based products and services, and reductions in energy requirements as a result of these initiatives |
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| EN7 ADD | Initiatives to reduce indirect energy consumption and reductions achieved |
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| Water | ||||
| EN8 | Total water withdrawal by source |
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| EN9 ADD | Water sources significantly affected by withdrawal of water |
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| EN10 ADD | Percentage and total volume of water recycled and reused |
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| Biodiversity | ||||
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Location and size of land owned, leased, managed in, or adjacent to, protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas |
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| EN12 | Description of significant impacts of activities, products, and services on biodiversity in protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas |
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| EN13 ADD | Habitats protected or restored |
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| EN14 ADD | Strategies, current actions, and future plans for managing impacts on biodiversity |
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| EN15 ADD | Number of IUCN Red List species and national conservation list species with habitats in areas affected by operations, by level of extinction risk |
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| Emissions, effluents and waste | ||||
| EN16 | Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight |
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| EN17 | Other relevant indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight |
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| EN18 ADD | Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reductions achieved |
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| EN19 | Emissions of ozone-depleting substances by weight |
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| EN20 | NO, SO, and other significant air emissions by type and weight |
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| EN21 | Total water discharge by quality and destination |
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| EN22 | Total weight of waste by type and disposal method |
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| EN23 | Total number and volume of significant spills |
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| EN24 ADD | Weight of transported, imported, exported, or treated waste deemed hazardous under the terms of the Basel Convention Annex I, II, III, and VIII, and percentage of transported waste shipped internationally |
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| EN25 ADD | Identity, size, protected status, and biodiversity value of water bodies and related habitats significantly affected by the reporting organization’s discharges of water and runoff |
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| EN26 | Initiatives to mitigate environmental impacts of products and services, and extent of impact mitigation |
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| EN27 | Percentage of products sold and their packaging materials that are reclaimed by category |
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| Compliance |
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| EN28 | Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for non-compliance with environmental laws and regulations |
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| Transport | ||||
| EN29 ADD | Significant environmental impacts of transporting products and other goods and materials used for the organization’s operations, and transporting members of the workforce |
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| Overall | ||||
| EN30 ADD | Total environmental protection expenditures and investments by type |
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