The Navigator Company sails toward sustainability
Low Carbon Business
The need to evolve towards a low-carbon economic model is reflected in The Navigator Company’s Roadmap for Carbon Neutrality. This sets out our commitment to achieving neutrality by 2035, ahead of the international target dates, by cutting direct CO2 emissions at our industrial complexes by 86%. Alongside this, our aim is for 80% of the primary energy consumed to be renewably sourced by 2030. To achieve these targets, Navigator has been investing in energy from renewable sources, such as biomass and solar, generated at the Company’s biomass plants and solar power plants, as well as in projects to improve energy efficiency. At the same time, we have been analysing the positive contribution from our agro-forestry holdings to mitigating the effects of climate change, by serving as a carbon sink. Significantly, in late 2021, Navigator submitted its targets for reducing GHG emissions to the Science Based Targets initiative.
Circular Economy
Navigator’s production model is based on several circular economy principles designed to achieve maximum efficiency in using and safeguarding natural resources. More than 80% of the water it uses is currently returned to the environment and 90% of its raw materials are from renewable sources. However, we are faced with a number of by-products which we cannot recover internally, so we have turned to external partners to explore how they can be reused or recycled, in order to achieve the target set by the Company of recovering 90% of all waste produced by 2030. In 2021, Navigator signed up to the CTI tool (Circular Transition Indicators), enabling it to apply circularity metrics to UWF paper.
Sustainable Consumption
Aware of growing consumer demands in relation to the environmental and social impacts of companies and their products, Navigator has a clear strategy for responding to these expectations. With the advantage that its products are naturally sourced, biodegradable, and recyclable, the Company guarantees that best practices are applied throughout its value chain. Our commitment to certified forestry management, our aim of purchasing 80% certified origin wood by 2030 and the fact that our products carry a forestry certification label and/or EU Ecolabel combine to offer consumers an additional guarantee. With the competitive advantage that forest-based products can be a viable alternative to fossil-based products, such as plastic, Navigator launched the gKRAFT brand in 2021 with the aim of building up the packaging market, currently making the transition to more sustainable solutions.
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