Report (2024 sustainability road map with 2023 data)

GHG emissions (tCO2e):

• AMP: scope 1: 165K , scope 2: 229K, scope 3: 2.47M
  • AMP said a “notable reduction” in scope 3 emissions helped reverse an increase in overall emissions “due to business growth” in 2022
• AGP: scope 1: 2.67M, scope 2: 1.19M, scope 3: 1.73M
  • Production curtailments following lower market demand helped decrease GHG emissions

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2022):

• Reduce absolute scope 1 & 2 emissions by 42% by 2030 (from 2020 baseline)
  • AMP: 14% increase from 2020
  • AGP: 12% progress to target
• Reduce absolute scope 3 emissions by 12.3% by 2030 (from 2020 baseline)
  • AMP: Met this target during 2023
  • AGP: Met this target during 2023

Materials targets:

• Support increased recycling and use of recycled content
  • AMP: 78.6% recycled content in aluminum and steel in 2023

Reporting standards: GRI (reports biennially - most recently in 2023)

Report: 2024, based on FY24 (July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 430K, scope 2: 1.17M, scope 3: 8.87M

Emissions targets:

• Achieve net-zero GHG emissions across the value chain by 2050 (approved by SBTi in 2024)
• Reduce scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 54.6% by FY2033; Reduce scope 3 emissions by 32.5% by FY2033
  • Achieved 17% reduction (337K MT CO2e) by end of FY24, compared with FY22 baseline
  • Achieved 17% reduction (1.27M MT CO2e) by end of FY24, compared with FY22 baseline
  • Total MT CO2e for FY24 were 10.5M, down from 11.5M the prior year

Materials targets:

• 100% of packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025
  • 74% of Amcor’s packaging production by weight “met widely accepted industry recyclability standards”
    • 95% of Amcor’s rigid packaging by weight is recyclable
    • 50% of Amcor’s flexible packaging production by weight was considered “recycle-ready,” meaning it’s “designed in a way that enables it to be recycled using current technologies, though infrastructure for collecting, sorting, and recycling may not yet be widely available”
• 10% postconsumer recycled plastic purchased by 2025; 30% use of recycled materials across portfolio by 2030
  • 10.8% of plastic purchased in FY24 (240K MT) was from PCR sources
  • 9% of aluminum purchased in FY24 was recycled

Reporting standards: GRI, SASB, TCFD

Report: 2024 (based on 2023 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 524K, scope 2: 103K, scope 3: 1.1M

Global emissions target (approved by SBTi in 2022):

• Reduce scope 1 & 2 GHG emissions by 41.5%, per ton of product, by 2030 (from 2019 baseline)
  • 0.44 MT CO2e per saleable MT of product in 2023, up from 0.42 in 2019. Sappi North America reported ongoing progress toward related goals involving energy efficiency and renewable energy, but said this broader goal was affected by “market conditions lowering operating rates in both 2020 and 2023.”
  • Sappi North America noted that over 25% of its upcoming capital investments are related to projects that will help meet the 2030 goal. One project which will have related benefits is a $418 million upgrade and expansion project at the company’s Somerset Mill in Maine. 

Materials targets:

• Launch five products with “defined sustainability benefits” by 2025
  • Sappi North America reported two products in this category in 2023. The company reports it has “many development initiatives targeting the use of renewable paper-based packaging.” It also reports having 58 possible products in the R&D stage.

Reporting standards: CDP, TCFD

Report: 2024 (based on 2023 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 1.64M, scope 2: 810.7K, scope 3: 7.5M

New GHG emissions target:

• Net zero emissions by 2050

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2023):

• Reduce absolute scope 1 & 2 GHG emissions by 50.4% by 2032 (from 2021 baseline)
  • 6% increase 2021-2023. The company described this as “expected” and said upcoming initiatives should lead to decreases starting in 2027.
• Reduce absolute scope 3 GHG emissions by 30% by 2032 (from 2021 baseline)
  • 13% increase 2021-2023, which the company ascribed to “inventory methodology improvements.” The company intends to restate its baseline next year following the sale of a facility in Augusta, Georgia.

New materials target:

• Make “every new product innovation more circular, more functional, and more convenient than existing alternatives.”
  • GPI said the measurement methodology for this new goal is “under development.” 
  • This replaces prior goals, including one related to reducing LDPE usage 40% by 2025. GPI also replaced a goal to generate “100% of sales from recyclable products by 2025.” It achieved 95% in 2023, based on a calculation of 66% being “widely recyclable” and the rest being “locally” or “conditionally” recyclable.

Reporting standards: CDP, GRI, SASB, TCFD

Report: 2024, based on 2023

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 575.6K, scope 2: 546.6K, scope 3: 7.05M

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2019):

• Reduce absolute scope 1 and scope 2 GHG emissions by 50% by 2030 (from 2019 baseline)
  • 16% reduction 2019-2023 (compared with a 12% reduction as of 2022)
• Reduce absolute scope 3 GHG emissions by 16% by 2030 (from 2019 baseline)
  • 28% reduction 2019-2023 (compared with a 25% increase as of 2022)

Materials targets:

• Reduce packaging material use by making aluminum and steel cans 10% lighter in weight by 2030 (from 2019 baseline)
  • 6.44% global average reduction in standard 12oz. or 330ml can weight 2019-2023 (unchanged from the previous year)
• 80% global recycled content average by 2030
  • 50% of raw materials, by weight, from recycled content in 2023 (and 7% from renewable resources, and 5% from renewable and recycled content)

Reporting standards: GRI, SASB, TCFD

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Report: 2024, based on May 2023-April 2024

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 1.34M, Scope 2: 944.9K, Scope 3: 4.7M

Emissions targets:

• Reduce scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions by 46% by 2030
  • 19% reduction in scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions since 2019/20
  • 5% year-over-year decline in scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions
  • Published inaugural Net Zero Transition Plan in 2023/24

Materials targets:

• Replace 1 billion pieces of plastic packaging with fiber by 2025
  • Achieved in 2023, replacing more than 1.2 billion units
• Continue to manufacture 100% recyclable or reusable packaging
  • Achieved 2023 target in 2021/22. In 2023/24, 99.6% of packaging manufactured was recyclable or reusable.

Reporting standards: GRI, SASB

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Report (based on 2023 data)

GHG emissions (tons CO2e): Scope 1 & 2 (market-based): 5.33M

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2020):

• 25% reduction in total GHG emissions by 2030 from 2017 baseline (interim target of 10% by 2025)
  • 20% reduction in scope 1 and 2 emissions 2017-2023

Materials targets:

• Increase recycled content to 50% average by 2030
  • 40% average recycled content in total external cullet by tons packed in 2023

Reporting standards: GRI, SASB, TCFD

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Report: 2024, based on 2023

GHG emissions (tCO2eq): Scope 1: 47,215, scope 2 (location-based): 353,413, scope 3: 10,348,056

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi):

• Achieve net-zero GHG emissions across scope 1, 2 and 3 by 2050 from a 2019 baseline, with a 46% reduction by 2030
  • 20% reduction in total absolute GHG emissions 2019-2023
  • 49% reduction in scope 1 and 2 emissions in 2023 vs. 2019

Materials targets:

• Increase paper content in new packages, setting a minimum of 50%, and increase overall portfolio paper content to 70% by 2030
• Implement a minimum of 10% recycled polymers across beverage cartons sold in Europe by 2030
  • This is an adjustment from Tetra Pak’s FY22 sustainability report, which said: “Continue deployment of attributed recycled polymers to achieve a minimum of 10% recycled plastics in packages sold in Europe by 2025”

Reporting standards: ESRS, GHG Protocol principles (WRI/WBCSD)

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Report: 2024, based on 2023

GHG emissions (tCO2eq): Scope 1: 47.2K, scope 2 (location-based): 353K, scope 3: 10.3M

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi):

• Achieve net-zero GHG emissions across scope 1, 2 and 3 by 2050 from a 2019 baseline, with a 46% reduction by 2030
  • 20% reduction in total absolute GHG emissions 2019-2023
  • 49% reduction in scope 1 and 2 emissions in 2023 vs. 2019

Materials targets:

• Increase paper content in new packages, setting a minimum of 50%, and increase overall portfolio paper content to 70% by 2030
• Implement a minimum of 10% recycled polymers across beverage cartons sold in Europe by 2030
  • This is an adjustment from Tetra Pak’s FY22 sustainability report, which said: “Continue deployment of attributed recycled polymers to achieve a minimum of 10% recycled plastics in packages sold in Europe by 2025”

Reporting standards: ESRS, GHG Protocol principles (WRI/WBCSD)

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Report: 2024, based on FY23

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 6M, scope 2: 2.33M, scope 3: 9.65M

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2022):

• Reduce scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions 27.5% from FY2019-2030
  • 11.3% total reduction in scope 1 and 2 since 2019
  • 13.2% total reduction in scope 3 since 2019

Materials targets:

• 100% of products recyclable, compostable or reusable by FY2025
  • 96% achieved in 2023 (down from 97.8% in 2022)

Reporting standards: GRI, SASB, TCFD

Report: 2024, based on 2023 data

GHG emissions (tCO2e): Scope 1: 650K, scope 2: 572K

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2021):

• Reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 emissions at least 25% by 2030 from a 2020 baseline
  • 8% decrease in 2023

• Reduce absolute scope 3 emissions by 13.5% by 2030, versus a 2019 baseline
  • Did not break out scope 3 emissions in report

Materials targets:

• Achieve “relevant on-pack claim of recyclability” on 75% of rigid plastic packaging by 2025
  • Did not update for 2023 (goal was met at 82% in 2022)
  • In 2023, 88% of materials purchased were recycled (99% for fiber, 5% for plastic, 12% for metal)

Reporting standards: GRI, SASB, TCFD

Report: 2024, based on 2023

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 144K, scope 2 (market-based): 1.60M , scope 3: 8.67M

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2021):

• Reduce scope 1 & 2 emissions 25% by 2025 from a 2019 baseline
  • 25.6% reduction in scope 1 & 2 GHG emissions 2019-2023
• Reduce scope 3 absolute emissions 25% by 2025 from a 2019 baseline
  • 21% reduction in scope 3 GHG emissions 2019-2023

Materials targets:

• 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025
  • 86% recyclable, less than 1% reusable, less than 1% compostable in fast-moving consumer goods packaging in 2023
• 10% recycled content across all packaging by 2030
  • 3.6% of all resin purchases in 2023 were PCR and 9.7% of total resin used was “circular resin” (including PCR, PIR and bioplastics)

Reporting standards: CDP, GRI, SASB, TCFD, WEF

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Report (based on 2023 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): scope 1: 398.6K, scope 2: 266.3K, scope 3: 8.66M

Emissions targets:

• Reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 55% between 2017 and 2030
  • 42% reduction since 2017
• Reduce absolute scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 55% between 2017 and 2030
  • 4% increase since 2017

Materials targets:

• 85% recycled content in the aluminum used to produce cans, cups and bottles by 2030
  • 67% Ball average recycled content globally and 70% average recycled content for global beverage packaging
• Launch second generation of ReAl aerosol container technology with 75% recycled content by 2030
  • 66% global aerosol can production made with lightweight ReAI alloy in 2023

Reporting standards: CDP, GRI

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Report (based on 2023 data)

CO2 emissions (ktonnes): scope 1: 2,415, scope 2: 467

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2021): 

• Net-zero emissions by 2050 and reduce scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 37.7% per tonne of saleable production between 2019 and 2030
• 55% reduction by 2030 in scope 1 and 2 fossil fuel-based CO2 emissions per tonne of paper produced in paper and board mills, compared with 2005 levels
  • 43.7% reduction in relative CO2 emissions from paper and board mills since 2005 (down from 43.9% in 2022)
  • 15.7% reduction since 2019

Materials targets:

• 95% of packaging Chain of Custody certified by 2025
  • 95.5% (achieved target in 2023)

Reporting standards: GRI, SASB, UNGC

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Report (based on 2021 and 2022 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e):

• 2021: Scope 1: 1.17M, scope 2: 957K, scope 3: 5.52M
• 2022: Scope 1: 1.13M, scope 2: 954K, scope 3: 7.71M (based on revised methodology)

Emissions targets:

• Net-zero GHG emissions by 2050
  • Pactiv Evergreen intends to set scope 3 reduction targets and an “abatement road map” by July 2024 that are in line with SBTi
  • Reduced scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 21% between 2015 and 2022

Materials targets:

• 100% of net revenues from products made with recycled, recyclable or renewable materials by 2030
  • 64% in 2021 and 66% in 2022

Reporting standards: GRI, SASB, TCFD

Report (based on FY23 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 463.4K, scope 2: 1.34M, scope 3: 8.78M

Emissions targets:

• In June 2023, Amcor submitted its proposed targets to the Science Based Targets initiative for approval; the company expects to confirm its final targets in FY24

Materials targets:

• 100% of packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025
  • A specific update on recyclable packaging was not shared, but 74% of total packaging produced in FY23 by weight was recyclable or “recycle-ready”
• 30% recycled content across portfolio by 2030
  • In FY23, Amcor purchased approximately 200,000 MT of recycled resin and aluminum (7% of total materials purchased, 8.5% of total resin purchased)

Report (based on Ardagh Metal Packaging and Ardagh Glass Packaging 2022 data)

GHG emissions (tCO2e):

• AMP: scope 1: 156K, scope 2: 211.2K, scope 3: 3.09M
  • Ardagh said increases are linked to increasing metal beverage can capacity, whose shipments grew 5% between 2021 and 2022
• AGP: scope 1: 2.87M, scope 2: 1.26M , scope 3: 2.29M

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2022):

• Reduce absolute scope 1 & 2 emissions by 42% by 2030 (from 2020 baseline)
  • 6% increase at AMP, 2% increase at AGP from 2020 to 2022
• Reduce absolute scope 3 emissions by 12.3% by 2030 (from 2020 baseline)
  • 9% increase at AMP, 2% increase at AGP from 2020 to 2022

Materials targets:

• Support increased recycling and use of recycled content
  • AMP: 68% recycled content in aluminum in 2022 (vs. 62% in 2020 and 70% in 2021)
  • AGP: 68% cullet in Europe, 46% in Africa and 39% in North America in 2022

Reporting standards: GRI

Report (based on 2022 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 1.63M, scope 2: 828.4K, scope 3: 6.93M

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2023):

• Reduce absolute scope 1 & 2 GHG emissions by 50.4% by 2032 (from 2021 baseline)
• Reduce absolute scope 3 GHG emissions by 30% by 2032 (from 2021 baseline)

Materials targets:

• 100% of sales from recyclable products by 2025
  • 95% achieved in 2022
• Reduce LDPE use 40% between 2018-2025
  • 15% reduction as of 2022

Reporting standards: CDP, GRI, SASB, TCFD

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Report (based on FY22 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 520.1K, scope 2: 1.36M, scope 3: 10.28M

Emissions targets:

• In FY22, committed to achieving net-zero emissions in its operations by 2050 and was in the process of developing a science-based target
  • Based on a 2008 EnviroAction goal to reduce GHG emissions intensity 60% by 2030, reported 57% progress in 2022

Materials targets:

• 100% of packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025
  • 96% of the rigid packaging portfolio (which made up 23% of the company’s overall sales, versus the larger flexibles business) by weight was considered recyclable in practice and at scale in FY22, representing $3.2B in revenue (by comparison, $12.9M in revenue came from reusable packaging systems)
  • 83% of flexible packaging was “recycle-ready,” meaning “designed in a way that enables it to be recycled using current technologies, though infrastructure for collecting, sorting, and recycling may not yet be widely available”
• 30% use of recycled materials across portfolio by 2030
  • 155K MT of recycled resin and aluminum purchased in FY22 (4.8% by weight of total materials purchased)

Reporting standards: GRI, SASB, TCFD

Report (based on 2022 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): scope 1: 449.6K, scope 2: 529.3K, scope 3: 12.15M

Emissions targets:

• Reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 55% (2017–2030)
  • 27% reduction 2017-2022
• Reduce absolute Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 55% (2017–2030)
  • 36% increase 2017-2022

Materials targets:

• 85% recycled content in the aluminum used to produce cans, cups and bottles by 2030
  • 66% average recycled content for global beverage packaging in 2022
  • 90% recycled content in the Ball Aluminum Cup
• Launch second generation of ReAl aerosol container technology with 75% recycled content by 2030

Reporting standards: CDP, GRI, SASB

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Report (based on 2022 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 149.3K, scope 2: 1.67M, scope 3: 10.93M

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2021):

• Reduce scope 1 & 2 emissions 25% by 2025 from a 2019 baseline
  • 21% reduction in scope 1 & 2 GHG emissions versus 2019-2022
• Reduce scope 3 absolute emissions 25% by 2025 from a 2019 baseline
  • 10% reduction in scope 3 GHG emissions 2019-2022

Materials targets:

• 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025
  • 79% recyclable, less than 1% reusable, less than 1% compostable in fast-moving consumer goods packaging in 2022
• 10% recycled content across all packaging by 2030
  • 3.4% of all resin purchases in 2022 were PCR and 4.9% were “circular resin”

Reporting standards: CDP, GRI, SASB, TCFD, WEF

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Report (based on 2022 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 612.9K, scope 2: 565.9K, scope 3: 11.53M

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2019):

• Reduce absolute scope 1 and scope 2 GHG emissions by 50% by 2030 (from 2019 baseline)
  • 12% reduction 2019-2022
• Reduce absolute scope 3 GHG emissions by 16% by 2030 (from 2019 baseline)
  • 25% increase 2019-2022 “due to global supply chain market forces, including the expansion in our beverage can business”

Materials targets:

• Reduce packaging material use by making aluminum and steel cans 10% lighter in weight by 2030 (from 2019 baseline)
  • 6.44% global average reduction in standard 12oz. or 330ml can weight 2019-2022
• 80% global recycled content average by 2030
  • 46% by weight of raw materials from recycled content in 2022 (with 7.3% from renewable resources and 6.2% from renewable and recycled content)

Reporting standards: GRI, SASB, TCFD

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Correction: The scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions reduction data has been updated to reflect new information Crown provided. The reduction between 2019 and 2022 was 12%.

Report (based on 2022 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 6.26M, scope 2: 3.31M, scope 3: 21.82M

Emissions targets: 

• Reduce scope 1, 2 and 3 absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 35% from 2017–2030
  • 3% reduction in scope 1 and 2 emissions from 2019-2022, but IP noted its figures “show an increase of 9% due to Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) sales"
  • 5.54% decline in scope 3 emissions between 2019-2022

Materials targets

• 100% reusable, recyclable, compostable packaging products by 2030
  • 93.5% achieved in 2022

Reporting standards: GRI, SASB

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Report (based on 2022 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): scope 1 & 2 (market-based): 5.84M

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2020):

• 25% reduction in total GHG emissions by 2030 from 2017 baseline (interim target of 10% by 2025)
  • 18% reduction 2017-2022

Materials targets:

• Increase recycled content to 50% average by 2030
  • 38% average recycled content in total external cullet by tons packed in 2022

Reporting standards: GRI, SASB, TCFD

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Report (based on 2022 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 1.81M, scope 2: 1.43M, scope 3: 2.43M

Emissions targets:

• Reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions 35% from 2021-2030
  • 9.2% decrease since 2021
• Reduce scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions 60% from 2021-2030
  • 6.3% decrease since 2021
• Net-zero scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions by 2050

Reporting standards: GRI

Report (based on 2022 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Total scope 1 & 2: 1.35M

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2021):

• Reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 emissions at least 25% by 2030 from a 2020 baseline
  • 5.3% increase 2020-2022 (including post-acquisition data from Skjern Paper and Sonoco Metal Packaging)
• Reduce absolute scope 3 emissions by 13.5% by 2030, versus a 2019 baseline
  • Did not break out scope 3 emissions in 2022 report

Materials targets:

• Achieve “relevant on-pack claim of recyclability” on 75% of rigid plastic packaging by 2025
  • 82% achieved in 2022

Reporting standards: GRI, SASB, TCFD

Report (based on FY22 data)

GHG emissions (MT CO2e): Scope 1: 6.27M, scope 2: 2.57M

Emissions targets (approved by SBTi in 2022):

• Reduce scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions 27.5% from FY2019-2030
  • 5.6% reduction in scope 1 and 2 emissions in 2022
  • Partnering with CDP to collect scope 3 data

Materials Targets

• 100% of products recyclable, compostable or reusable by FY2025
  • 97.8% achieved in 2022

Reporting standards: GRI, SASB, TCFD

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