Corporate Footprint

With the publication of the 2019 report, the Riri Group shares its environmental impact performance and improvements.

Sustainability and transparency are two closely connected concepts for Riri. This is why the Swiss group has decided to publish, also this year, a report on its performance in terms of sustainability.
Through its focus on continuous progress and attention to detail, also in 2019 the environmental impact levels of the Group, calculated on the basis of its Environmental Corporate Footprint, confirm the corporate commitment to continuing improvement of its own performance.

These surveys have been completed by referring to the “Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard”, published by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and by the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD). This document provides useful guidelines and requirements to issue an inventory of Greenhouse Gas emissions by dividing the latter into: direct emissions (Scope 1); indirect emissions related to the production and use of electricity (Scope 2); other indirect emissions related, for example to the transport of finished goods (Scope 3).

Based on this method, which allows for structured data collection (LCI, Life Cycle Impact), the impact assessments were completed using the LCIA IMPACT 2002+ method, a way of monitoring the effects of Riri’s activities based on five impact categories:

• Human Health, by measuring the DALY (Disability-Adjusted Life Years), a unit of measurement developed by Harvard University which extends the concept of the potential life years lost because of premature death, to include also the years of “healthy” life lost due to disability.
• Quality of the Ecosystem, by measuring what is known as “Potentially Disappeared Fraction of species over a certain amount of square meters during a certain amount of year” (PDF·m²·y), a parameter which takes into account the impact on the quality of an ecosystem by monitoring the potential fraction of animal species which have disappeared on one square metre in one year.
• Climate Change, by measuring the equivalent kilograms of CO₂ [kgCO₂-eq].
• Use of Resources, by measuring the megajoules [MJ] necessary to extract or produce the resource.
• Water Consumption, by measuring the cubic metres [m³] of water extracted.

Our goal? Defining a corporate development strategy in a concrete, well-oganised way in order to achieve tangible results.

OUR SUSTAINABLE COMMITMENT
REPORT 2019

 
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We have calculated our Corporate Footrpint in partnership with Quantis:
https://quantis-intl.com/metrics/footprints-lca/corporate/