Key achievements
Energy consumption
Per unit processed material
Gj
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
2.52
2.37
2.33
2.25
Total direct CO2 emissions
Per unit processed material
MT
Water consumption
Per unit processed material
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
1.60
1.20
0.80
0.40
0.00
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
160
120
80
40
0
137
129
127
121
1.30
1.23
1.20
1.19
Environmental efficiency
Overall on the AAK scope 2016 production sites, we
have seen a good environmental efficiency performance
in 2018. Most Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
have improved as we will outline later in this section.
However, a few KPIs have been challenging due to
unusual weather patterns in some areas of the world as
we will explain.
More frequent extreme weather
According to the 2019 Global Risk Report published by
World Economic Forum, extreme weather events rank
as the most likely and impactful global risk within the
next ten years.
Also, at some of our production sites extreme weather
events have been experienced in 2018. On the East
Coast of the US, January and February were colder
than usual. This resulted in an increased energy need in
our production, mainly for heating the pipes to keep the
oil liquid.
At the same time, the hot summer of 2018 in Sweden
has warmed the sea water significantly so that it could
not be used as cooling water. Therefore, we had to use
municipal water for cooling purposes to be able to keep
producing. This resulted in a higher water consumption
than usual. We have initiated a project to avoid that from
happening in the future.
The data including the four newest AAK sites in Brazil,
China, India and USA (California) represents a new
baseline from which we will track performance in the
coming years.
Based on these events, we have decided to have
climate change risk assessment conducted by an
external partner for all our production sites before
2020. We have during 2018 already started with some
production sites.
One of the sites that has been risk assessed was
Karlshamn in Sweden. The outcome is for example
that coastal flooding was a very high risk for the site. All
other risks assessed were scored between very low to
medium.
Site Karlshamn has a flood emergency plan in place
describing all processes that should be followed in case
of increase of the water above a certain level.
Furthermore, in 2018 we conducted a full water risk
assessment of all our production sites. You can read
more on this topic on page 47.
1.19 120 2.20
m3
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