Biodiversity and nature
Biodiversity is all the different kinds of life in one area — the animals, plants, fungi, and even microorganisms. Biodiversity is crucial to support everything in nature we need to survive, like food, clean water, medicine, and shelter.
But the world’s natural ecosystems are declining at unprecedented rates, with wildlife populations down 69% on average since 19701. This is weakening the planet’s ability to provide crucial services, including climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Our business depends on nature and the ecosystem services it provides. Forest-based paper board is the main raw material for our cartons, and the food that customers use our packs to deliver is made from ingredients that come from farmland.
We need to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 20301 to preserve the earth for current and future generations. At SIG, we recognize that we have a responsibility to protect essential ecosystems within and beyond our value chain.
For our operations, which are predominantly situated in industrial zones, we safeguard biodiversity protection through our local EHS environmental assessments under ISO 14001 and the WWF Risk Filters on Water and Biodiversity.
We joined the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) in 2023 to align our approach with the Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework and its goals.
We performed an in-depth assessment of potential value chain impacts on the five nature pressures (land use and land use change, water use, soil pollution and water pollution) for our supply chain to effectively address impact reduction at scale, in line with the guidance of the SBTN.
We are reviewing our nature-related sourcing requirements in line with identified nature pressures.
To enhance consumer choice through improved information, we partner with SHINE including the integration of biodiversity loss data in alignment with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
All efforts toward our commitments additionally contribute to our efforts to reduce biodiversity loss primarily by delivering products with a lower environmental impact, but also by diverting used packaging from ending up in nature through collection and recycling.