Sustainability at Klüber Lubrication 2021

In focus: climate neutrality for Klüber Lubrication and our customers

Achieving climate neutrality quickly is a key objective for the global community, for many of our customers – and for us:

• In 2019, we set ourselves the target – which seemed ambitious at the time – of increasing the proportion of green electricity to 50 % of our consumption by 2025. We exceeded this target ahead of schedule in 2021, with around 72 %. We are now aiming to use 100 % green electricity at our production sites by 2030.

• By 2025, we want to cut our absolute CO2eq* emissions by 75 % compared with 2019 levels. CO2eq means that we will take all climate-related emissions into account, not just CO2. Our employees succeeded in reducing CO2eq emissions by more than 32 % in 2021, and by more than 49 % from 2019 to 2021 – these are now down to just 25,036 tonnes.

• We were helped by the fact that we have improved our energy efficiency per tonne of product by around 8 % since 2019.

This has motivated us to be able to take the next step forward credibly: climate neutrality for our company from 2022 onwards in line with Scope** 1 and 2 of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. From 2022 onwards, we will offset our annual residual emissions of CO2eq through appropriate recognized projects.

Like many other companies, we have had to learn that the emissions we can influence through our development, purchasing and investment decisions in the upstream and downstream supply chain (Scope 3) account for more than 90 % of our total CO2eq output. Our initial calculations and estimates for 2019 indicate Scope 3 emissions of around

800,000 tonnes of CO2eq – compared with approx. 49,000 tonnes for Scope 1 and Scope 2. We have set ourselves the target of identifying these Scope 3 emissions more precisely and will work with our suppliers, customers and partners to consistently reduce them.

In December 2021, we made a commitment to achieving Scope 3 climate neutrality by 2045. We are currently developing a suitable implementation plan for the significant challenge that lies ahead of us over the next 23 years. A key element here is our Ethical Sourcing 2.0 programme which we began rolling out in November 2021 together with a respected partner.

Our core competence is helping our customers achieve their sustainability goals

We specialise in offering our customers solutions that effectively support them in achieving both their economic goals and their sustainability goals. This makes it possible for us to tap into huge optimisation potential together with our customers:

• One of our goals was to help our customers achieve energy savings of up to 350 GWh by 2025 with our KlüberEnergy service. We exceeded this ahead of schedule in 2021 with 395 GWh – which equates to around 52,000 tonnes of CO2. The new target for 2025 is 800 GWh.

• Other key elements of our programme have been the systematic sustainability approach for new products and our product portfolio since 2011. Here, too, we are pleased that our team succeeded in bringing the share of outperformers 

• products with higher sustainability requirements – in our overall portfolio to 40 % in 2021. This means we have already exceeded our target of achieving 35 % outperformer products by 2030!

Excerpt from Klüber Lubrication Sustainability Report 2021

Full Report：

Sustainability report_2021_EN.pdf

Sustainability report_2021_CN.pdf

克鲁勃获得可持续发展EcoVadis 平台“金牌”认证！

2022年克鲁勃润滑剂集团荣获了EcoVadis金牌认证。EcoVadis是一家在可持续领域领先的评级机构。克鲁勃在全球此次参与评估的90000多家公司中名列前6%。在“环境”和“劳工与人权”两个特别重要的方面获得了远高于平均水平的分数，在“道德”和“可持续采购”方面也获得了优秀的评级。

克鲁勃润滑剂集团可持续发展经理Markus Hermann解释道：“继2019年和2021年获得银牌后，我们今年又获得了金牌——这是外界对我们所作努力的重要认可。该评级对我们的客户也是有意义，因为他们都越来越重视其供应商的此类评估。”

足迹最小化和手印最大化

此奖项反映了克鲁勃润滑剂公司对气候保护的承诺，以及该公司为其生态足迹树立的高标准。例如，克鲁勃润滑剂公司承诺于2022年起开始在其生产和销售场地均实现碳中和，其中包括与能源相关的二氧化碳排放及其他温室气体排放。通过在全球范围内减少二氧化碳当量排放、提高能效、采用绿色电力，以及改用气候友好型溶剂，这家专业润滑剂公司成功实现了这一目标。由此可将此类排放减少49%，降至25,000吨左右。每年的剩余排放也通过高质量的项目进行了补偿。

*克鲁勃润滑剂通过以上方法，自2022年起逐步实现碳中和

Markus Hermann解释道：“如果观察一下整个价值链中的二氧化碳排放，大家就会发现它们的总量往往是自身生产排放的数倍之多。因此，克鲁勃润滑剂公司也正在关注这方面的问题——并努力争取于2045年实现这些范围的碳中和。”

除了生态足迹之外，公司还能通过“手印”为气候保护作出更大的贡献，即通过克鲁勃润滑剂帮助用户以更安全、更高效和更具持续性的方式进行生产。作为一家定制特种润滑剂制造商，克鲁勃润滑剂公司在此方面极具优势，因为这个经常被低估的因素可为改善能效和提高可持续性作出巨大的贡献。2021年，在克鲁勃能效服务的助力下，克鲁勃的客户节约了约396千兆瓦时的电力，相当于减少了52,000吨的二氧化碳排放。

*足迹：指在原材料加工、运输、成品生产、交付等过程中对环境和资源的影响，包括温室气体排放、废弃物产生等

*手印（=您的足迹*）：指客户使用以及处理我们的产品所带来的积极效果。例如节能、减少废弃物产生、提高生产效率等。

多元化和包容性

在其他方面的评估中，克鲁勃润滑剂公司也取得了较大的进步。例如，在“多元化和包容性”方面，公司在2021年提前实现了于2025年将管理职位中的女性比例提高到至少25%的目标。克鲁勃润滑剂公司的所有供应商同样也对促进实现联合国可持续发展目标作出了承诺，“可持续采购”便是其具体体现。公司在德国、中国和巴西的几个地方已通过了按Sedex标准进行的道德和可持续发展审计，并获得了证书。2023年5月发布的可持续发展报告将为大家综述克鲁勃润滑剂公司在可持续发展方面所做的努力。

Source：Klüber Lubrication (SHANGHAI) Co., Ltd.