SCA has worked proactively for some time to reduce emissions from fossil fuels. The Group adopted its first carbon dioxide target in 2001. In 2008, SCA introduced a new quantified carbon dioxide target that requires the Group to reduce emissions from fossil fuels by 20% by the year 2020.
Target achievement 2010
At year-end 2010, carbon dioxide emissions had declined by 4.2% relative to the production level.
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Example: 1,300 energy-efficiency programmes
In recent years, SCA’s ESAVE energy-efficiency programme has demonstrated positive development. Since its launch in 2003, more than 1,300 projects have been carried out. The accumulated saving effects since its initiation in 2003 are estimated at 700 GWh of electricity and 1,400 GWh of heat on an annual basis. In financial terms, this corresponds to EUR 63m per year. During 2010, 300 projects were implemented, resulting in an estimated avoided cost of about EUR 130m. More examples are available in our  brochure and in SCA's Sustainability report 2010.
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Activities in 2010
- SCA is investing SEK 500m in a new lime kiln at the Östrand pulp mill in Sweden. The investment dramatically reduces Östrand’s carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.
- SCA’s extensive investments in wind power, made in cooperation with the Norwegian energy company Statkraft, proceeded.
- SCA implemented a new target for the company’s energy-efficiency program, ESAVE, involving a corresponding reduction in energy consumption of 7.5% per tonne of product by 2012, using 2005 as the reference year.
- Construction work on a new co-generation plant commenced in Aschaffenburg, Germany. The new plant will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10%.
- SCA Forest Products consolidated all operations in renewable energy to a new business unit, SCA Energy. The unit will develop new business opportunities in the energy area.
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