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Billes's Climate Report
Submitted on 2024-10-16
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Introduction *
Commitment and Targets *
Own Emissions *
Value Chain Emissions *
(optional)
Climate Solutions *
(optional)
Management, Strategy and Climate Risk *
(optional)
Results, Challenges and Outlook *
Version 3.0
Introduction *
1.1 Reporting year
*2023
1.1.1 Reporting period
*from 1.2023 to 12.2023
1.2 Describe your business activities
*Printing Industry
1.4 Number of employees in the reporting year
*95
1.4.1 Full-time equivalent (FTE) or headcounts
*Full-time equivalent
1.5 Let us know if your company is a parent company or subsidiary
*Not applicable
Commitment and Targets *
2.1 Net zero target year
*2050
2.1.1 Base year
*2020
2.2 Near-term target
*50% of absolute total emission reduction from my base year by 2030
Own Emissions *
3.1 To reduce emissions in line with my commitment, my company has a plan and is taking action
*Yes
Energy consumption
3.2 Total energy consumption
*2694070 kwh
3.3 Renewable energy
*2694070 kwh
Scope 1 emissions
3.4 Scope 1 emissions
*2.20 metric tons CO2e
Scope 2 emissions
3.5 Location based scope 2 emissions
*0 metric tons CO2e
3.6 Market based scope 2 emissions
*13.42 metric tons CO2e
3.7 Describe your plans and actions taken to reduce scope 1 & 2 emissions.
*We plan to invest in an new transport vechile for lighter transports.
3.8 Describe the calculation methodology and comment on the data accuracy, including any tools/methods used to calculate.
*We use the GHG Corporate guidelines for calculation scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 Category 1, 4, 6, and 9.
Value Chain Emissions (optional) *
Scope 3 emissions
4.1 Have you measured any of your scope 3 emissions?
*Yes
4.1.1 Total scope 3 emissions
*779 metric tons CO2e
Supply chain related - upstream emissions
Customer related - downstream emissions
4.1.17 Do you have a plan and are taking action to reduce emissions from your value chain?
*Yes
We are active in informing our customers to choose lov emission materials, especially printing paper.
4.2 Have you asked any of your suppliers to set a net zero target (either voluntarily or as a requirement)?
*No
4.3 Have you communicated your commitment and actions to any of your customers?
*Yes
4.4 Describe the calculation methodology and comment on the data accuracy and any tools used to calculate your scope 3 emissions.
*GHG Guidelines and our own data, since 2011. Complement with Climate Calc, tool for Printing Industry.
Climate Solutions (optional) *
5.1 Do you classify any of your existing goods and/or services as a climate solution?
*Yes
5.2 What percentage of your total revenue comes from sales of climate solutions?
*10 %
5.3 Provide descriptions/names of your climate solutions:
*Low impact paper (under 75 grams/kg product)
5.4 Methodology used to assess these as climate solutions, and third party which has validated the assessment, if any:
*GHG
Management, Strategy and Climate Risk (optional) *
6.1 What governance processes do you have in place for your climate strategy? Choose as many as are applicable.
*Person is responsible for climate strategy at board level
6.1.1 Please describe their position and responsibility.
*CEO, responisible for Climate targets for Billes
6.1.2 Is this person (or another at executive and board level) also responsible for climate risk?
*Yes
6.2 Have you started to identify and assess your companies climate risks and opportunities?
*Yes - we have identified both climate risks and opportunities
6.2.1 Where are the climate risks you've identified?
*Value Chain
6.2.2 How are you managing these climate risks? Choose as many as are applicable.
*We\'ve started to prioritise climate risks,We\'ve Integrated these adaptation plans into business practices
6.2.3 Provide any additional comments or context on your climate risks:
*We are lacking specific data from the Digital printing suppliers (plastic substrat) Forced to use average data.
6.3 Have you integrated climate and/or nature into your company mission statement or shareholder agreements? If yes, describe how.
*Yes
We have formulated a Sustainable Policy and a Supplier Code of Conduct
6.4 Have you taken actions this year outside of your emissions to accelerate climate progress?
*Yes
Forming a Supplier Code of Conduct and planning to communicate this to suppliers before end of year.
Results, Challenges and Outlook *
7.1 Provide any additional comments or context on your annual results and progress from previous years.
*Billes continues to report emissions from scope 1 and 2 as well as categories 1, 4, 6 and 9 under
scope 3. Bille’s total carbon dioxide emissions decreased from 1205 tons in 2020 to 795 tons in 2023,
a decrease of 410 tons or 34% in the last 3 years.
Antalis (paper supplier) climate compensates for their delivered products,hence leading to zero
emissions to report by us. The emissions in relation to turnover was from 2020-2023 as follows, 5.82,
6.40, 4.26 and 3.33 tonnes. This means approx. 2.5 tonnes less emissions of CO2 per earned million
in 2023 compared to 2020.
In the short term, it is relevant to report the company’s emissions in relation to turnover, but in the
longer term, we must switch to reporting absolute emissions in tonnes for the entire operation,
otherwise we will not reach the long-term goals by 2030.
Emissions from scope 1 in 2023 have decreased by 0.57 tonnes compared to the previous year and
went from 2.77 to 2.20 tonnes. The vehicle fleet consists of several electric vehicles. The transport
vehicles run on HVO fuel, which consists of 90% renewable energy, hence the low fossil factor.
During the winter, the truck was forced to fill up with diesel to 80%, which resulted in an increase in
the fossil fuel factor for this vehicle from 0.1 to 0.2.
To continue reducing emissions from this scope, the transition to purely electric vehicles on the
passenger car side and plug-in hybrids for heavy vehicles in the vehicle fleet continues. The average
emission per kilometer for company vehicles for 2023 ends up at 38 grams.
Emissions from scope 2 (heating and purchased electricity) decreased slightly in 2023 compared to
the previous year due to reduced consumption. Emissions from electricity and district heating are at a
very low level because Billes has chosen exclusively renewable energy.
For scope 3, during the year we saw a reduction in emissions by 17 tonnes from 796 tonnes to 779.
This reduction is due to project managers and salespeople getting customers to choose paper with a
lower climate footprint. Antalis climate compensates for all the paper that Billes bought from there.
The digitally printed products are printed on a wider variety of materials, where hard (discs) and
soft (fabric/film) plastic materials are a common printing material that has a higher emission factor
than paper-based materials. The use of PVC, PE and PP plastics has decreased by 30 tonnes from
87 tonnes to 55 tonnes. Digital large format is an upcoming focus area along with traditional offset
printing.
During the month of October Billes invited all suppliers of printing media to discuss and point out the
importance of everyone working to influence their own supply chains. The meeting was appreciated
and we are looking forward to a positive and expanded collaboration with our print media suppliers
while also reducing our climate footprint.
In 2023, we have continued to encourage our customers to choose paper qualities with a lower
emission factor. The total use of paper decreased by nearly 156 tonnes, but the net emissions
increased by 19 tonnes of CO2 from the use of paper. This is because the supplier that climate
compensates for its deliveries is the supplier that has reduced the most in volume and this has
instead come from the others who, although they have lower emissions of CO2 per kg/paper, the
emissions from paper use have increased somewhat.
We will continue to be even more clear when giving information to customers about why they should
choose a paper with a low climate footprint if we are to be able to achieve our long-term goal of
climate neutrality in 2040. There is a significant increase regarding customers interest in receiving
information about the climate footprint of the printing material they buy and use in their businesses,
this is a positive trend we hope continues.
Billes compensates 100% of our emissions (UN Climate Offsite Platform) from scope 1, scope 2 and
scope 3 that we reported in this calculation.
Climate report 2023
7.2 Do you face any key challenges in reducing emissions?
*Reducing scope 3 emissions,Complexities in managing supply chain emissions,Limited influence over suppliers
7.3 Has there been any third party validation of the data submitted in this report?
*Yes
It,s under validating right now by Climate Calc.
Billes's Climate Report
Billes's Climate Report - 2023
Introduction *
1.1 Reporting year
*2023
1.1.1 Reporting period
*from 1.2023 to 12.2023
1.2 Describe your business activities
*Printing Industry
1.4 Number of employees in the reporting year
*95
1.4.1 Full-time equivalent (FTE) or headcounts
*Full-time equivalent
1.5 Let us know if your company is a parent company or subsidiary
*Not applicable
Commitment and Targets *
2.1 Net zero target year
*2050
2.1.1 Base year
*2020
2.2 Near-term target
*50% of absolute total emission reduction from my base year by 2030
Own Emissions *
3.1 To reduce emissions in line with my commitment, my company has a plan and is taking action
*Yes
Energy consumption
3.2 Total energy consumption
*2694070 kwh
3.3 Renewable energy
*2694070 kwh
Scope 1 emissions
3.4 Scope 1 emissions
*2.20 metric tons CO2e
Scope 2 emissions
3.5 Location based scope 2 emissions
*0 metric tons CO2e
3.6 Market based scope 2 emissions
*13.42 metric tons CO2e
3.7 Describe your plans and actions taken to reduce scope 1 & 2 emissions.
*We plan to invest in an new transport vechile for lighter transports.
3.8 Describe the calculation methodology and comment on the data accuracy, including any tools/methods used to calculate.
*We use the GHG Corporate guidelines for calculation scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 Category 1, 4, 6, and 9.
Value Chain Emissions (optional) *
Scope 3 emissions
4.1 Have you measured any of your scope 3 emissions?
*Yes
4.1.1 Total scope 3 emissions
*779 metric tons CO2e
Supply chain related - upstream emissions
Customer related - downstream emissions
4.1.17 Do you have a plan and are taking action to reduce emissions from your value chain?
*Yes
We are active in informing our customers to choose lov emission materials, especially printing paper.
4.2 Have you asked any of your suppliers to set a net zero target (either voluntarily or as a requirement)?
*No
4.3 Have you communicated your commitment and actions to any of your customers?
*Yes
4.4 Describe the calculation methodology and comment on the data accuracy and any tools used to calculate your scope 3 emissions.
*GHG Guidelines and our own data, since 2011. Complement with Climate Calc, tool for Printing Industry.
Climate Solutions (optional) *
5.1 Do you classify any of your existing goods and/or services as a climate solution?
*Yes
5.2 What percentage of your total revenue comes from sales of climate solutions?
*10 %
5.3 Provide descriptions/names of your climate solutions:
*Low impact paper (under 75 grams/kg product)
5.4 Methodology used to assess these as climate solutions, and third party which has validated the assessment, if any:
*GHG
Management, Strategy and Climate Risk (optional) *
6.1 What governance processes do you have in place for your climate strategy? Choose as many as are applicable.
*Person is responsible for climate strategy at board level
6.1.1 Please describe their position and responsibility.
*CEO, responisible for Climate targets for Billes
6.1.2 Is this person (or another at executive and board level) also responsible for climate risk?
*Yes
6.2 Have you started to identify and assess your companies climate risks and opportunities?
*Yes - we have identified both climate risks and opportunities
6.2.1 Where are the climate risks you've identified?
*Value Chain
6.2.2 How are you managing these climate risks? Choose as many as are applicable.
*We\'ve started to prioritise climate risks,We\'ve Integrated these adaptation plans into business practices
6.2.3 Provide any additional comments or context on your climate risks:
*We are lacking specific data from the Digital printing suppliers (plastic substrat) Forced to use average data.
6.3 Have you integrated climate and/or nature into your company mission statement or shareholder agreements? If yes, describe how.
*Yes
We have formulated a Sustainable Policy and a Supplier Code of Conduct
6.4 Have you taken actions this year outside of your emissions to accelerate climate progress?
*Yes
Forming a Supplier Code of Conduct and planning to communicate this to suppliers before end of year.
Results, Challenges and Outlook *
7.1 Provide any additional comments or context on your annual results and progress from previous years.
*Billes continues to report emissions from scope 1 and 2 as well as categories 1, 4, 6 and 9 under
scope 3. Bille’s total carbon dioxide emissions decreased from 1205 tons in 2020 to 795 tons in 2023,
a decrease of 410 tons or 34% in the last 3 years.
Antalis (paper supplier) climate compensates for their delivered products,hence leading to zero
emissions to report by us. The emissions in relation to turnover was from 2020-2023 as follows, 5.82,
6.40, 4.26 and 3.33 tonnes. This means approx. 2.5 tonnes less emissions of CO2 per earned million
in 2023 compared to 2020.
In the short term, it is relevant to report the company’s emissions in relation to turnover, but in the
longer term, we must switch to reporting absolute emissions in tonnes for the entire operation,
otherwise we will not reach the long-term goals by 2030.
Emissions from scope 1 in 2023 have decreased by 0.57 tonnes compared to the previous year and
went from 2.77 to 2.20 tonnes. The vehicle fleet consists of several electric vehicles. The transport
vehicles run on HVO fuel, which consists of 90% renewable energy, hence the low fossil factor.
During the winter, the truck was forced to fill up with diesel to 80%, which resulted in an increase in
the fossil fuel factor for this vehicle from 0.1 to 0.2.
To continue reducing emissions from this scope, the transition to purely electric vehicles on the
passenger car side and plug-in hybrids for heavy vehicles in the vehicle fleet continues. The average
emission per kilometer for company vehicles for 2023 ends up at 38 grams.
Emissions from scope 2 (heating and purchased electricity) decreased slightly in 2023 compared to
the previous year due to reduced consumption. Emissions from electricity and district heating are at a
very low level because Billes has chosen exclusively renewable energy.
For scope 3, during the year we saw a reduction in emissions by 17 tonnes from 796 tonnes to 779.
This reduction is due to project managers and salespeople getting customers to choose paper with a
lower climate footprint. Antalis climate compensates for all the paper that Billes bought from there.
The digitally printed products are printed on a wider variety of materials, where hard (discs) and
soft (fabric/film) plastic materials are a common printing material that has a higher emission factor
than paper-based materials. The use of PVC, PE and PP plastics has decreased by 30 tonnes from
87 tonnes to 55 tonnes. Digital large format is an upcoming focus area along with traditional offset
printing.
During the month of October Billes invited all suppliers of printing media to discuss and point out the
importance of everyone working to influence their own supply chains. The meeting was appreciated
and we are looking forward to a positive and expanded collaboration with our print media suppliers
while also reducing our climate footprint.
In 2023, we have continued to encourage our customers to choose paper qualities with a lower
emission factor. The total use of paper decreased by nearly 156 tonnes, but the net emissions
increased by 19 tonnes of CO2 from the use of paper. This is because the supplier that climate
compensates for its deliveries is the supplier that has reduced the most in volume and this has
instead come from the others who, although they have lower emissions of CO2 per kg/paper, the
emissions from paper use have increased somewhat.
We will continue to be even more clear when giving information to customers about why they should
choose a paper with a low climate footprint if we are to be able to achieve our long-term goal of
climate neutrality in 2040. There is a significant increase regarding customers interest in receiving
information about the climate footprint of the printing material they buy and use in their businesses,
this is a positive trend we hope continues.
Billes compensates 100% of our emissions (UN Climate Offsite Platform) from scope 1, scope 2 and
scope 3 that we reported in this calculation.
Climate report 2023
7.2 Do you face any key challenges in reducing emissions?
*Reducing scope 3 emissions,Complexities in managing supply chain emissions,Limited influence over suppliers
7.3 Has there been any third party validation of the data submitted in this report?
*Yes
It,s under validating right now by Climate Calc.
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