Companies within the food sector face environmental challenges which, with the increasing scarcity of raw materials, may influence their business strategies and operational processes.
With our scale comes the responsibility to effectively link supply and demand and create supply chains that promote more sustainable production and consumption practices.
Fighting climate change and protecting water resources, preserving biodiversity and helping to reverse its loss, and accelerating the transition to a circular economy are environmental priorities.
As at 31/12/2023
We seek to minimise emissions from our activities, by being responsible and proactive.
We believe we have a role to play in protecting biological diversity.
We seek to optimise the use of resources by developing reusable and/or recyclable solutions.
Besides prevention, we also focus on minimising and recovering the waste we generate.
We recognise the importance of individual and collective behaviour for better management of natural resources, emissions and waste. That is why we hold several awareness-raising initiatives for our employees, customers and consumers.
Information on the number of facilities with environmental certification, the reduction in our carbon footprint and percentage of recycled material used in our plastic packaging was confirmed by an external and independent entity for the Group’s 2023 Annual Report.
In November 2023, the Jerónimo Martins Group and Biedronka, with the support of Warsaw’s Kozmiński University, gathered experts from different fields to debate energy in its most varied dimensions: the energy of food, social energy and energy as a natural resource.