70 Innovation, Employees, Environment, and Safety I Declaration on Corporate Governance
CoO for Europe, GREEN-E for the U.S., and IREC for China)
and through a German PPA (Power Purchase Agreement).
This is electricity that is generated from renewable energies
and whose origin is made transparent by means of a Guar-
antee of Origin. ALTANA plans to finalize the decommission-
ing of these Guarantees of Origin for 2021 in April, as in
the previous year. This means that ALTANA’s electricity purchases
cause zero CO² emissions according to the market-
based method. As a result, 69,500 tons of CO² equivalents
(68,144 tons for Scope 1 and 1,356 tons for Scope 2
from the purchase of electricity, steam, district heating, and
compressed air according to the market-based method)
from unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions were caused that
were not offset by compensation.
vised Edition” of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol initiative. The
data are reported in the document “Facts and Figures on
Sustainability 2021.” The energy consumption of all production
sites included in the scope of consolidation is recorded
and evaluated in a global reporting system. The CO² equivalents
for Scope 2 are calculated based on conversion fac-
tors (g CO² / kWh) defined by the International Energy Agency
(IEA) in line with the currently published values (2019) for
the location-based method and with the aid of emission
factors of the electricity supplier or an individual electricity
product for the market-based method. For Scope 1, the conversion
factors from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) are used.
Consumption is generally verified by the companies by
means of bills. If this is not possible for the last two months
of the reporting year, the companies first make a qualified
estimate of the values. As a result, in the following year –
as soon as all bills are available – the prior-year figure may
still be adjusted retrospectively. In 2021, ALTANA had a
total energy consumption of 743,304 MWh (previous year:
668,493 MWh) due to the sharp increase in the volume
of finished goods produced. The main energy sources were
natural gas (418,428 MWh) and electricity (276,843
MWh). ALTANA set a target value of 1.24 MWh / t for the
specific energy parameter – based on one ton of finished
goods – for 2021, and in the reporting period even fell significantly
below this value at 1.21 MWh / t – an important
step on the way to energy transformation. This resulted in a
total of 102,851 tons of CO² equivalents. Of this amount,
101,495 tons of CO² equivalents belong to Scope 1. ALTANA
offsets 33,351 tons of CO² equivalents of Scope 1 emis-
sions by investing in certified offset projects. The project in
question is the Kinnaur Hydropower Plant project on the
Satluj River in the Himachal Pradesh region of India.
For the purchased electricity of 276,843 MWh, the
same amount of Guarantees of Origin was acquired in accordance
with recognized quality standards (for example,