Climate Change Data

Luis Calvo Sanz, S.A.

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2019)

Reporting Period: 2019

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:111,202 tCO2e/year
Scope 1 Emissions:99,491 tCO2e/year
Scope 2 Emissions:11,731 tCO2e/year
Renewable Energy Share:63.11% of total energy use
Water Consumption:1,946,122 m3/year
Waste Generated:40,115 tons/year
Carbon Intensity:0.82 tCO2eq/t finished product

ESG Focus Areas

  • Oceans
  • Environment
  • People

Environmental Achievements

  • Improved effluent treatment at the finished product factory in Brazil
  • Started the Green Footprint project in El Salvador for recycling used boots
  • 98% of products placed on the market were recyclable
  • 75% of non-hazardous waste was valorized

Social Achievements

  • Launched Unicalvo Corporate University
  • Introduced the first Global Equality Plan
  • Moved Madrid offices to a new location with open and collaborative spaces
  • Increased training hours per employee by 32% to 31.35 hours

Governance Achievements

  • Implemented a criminal risk prevention and compliance model in Brazil and Italy
  • Published the second edition of its Code of Ethics
  • Launched a new Grupo Calvo Whistleblower Channel

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • 100% sustainable tuna in brands
  • 100% traceable fishery product
  • 100% healthy and nutritious products
Medium-term Goals:
  • Increase women on the Steering Committee to 30%
  • Increase women in middle management positions to 44%
  • Increase training hours per employee to 36 hours
  • Reduce frequency and severity rates by 10%
  • Audit 100% of critical or high-risk suppliers
Short-term Goals:
  • Reduce water consumption per ton produced by 10%
  • Reduce energy consumption and emissions per ton produced by 10%
  • Increase renewable energy share to 50%
  • Achieve 0 waste to landfill
  • Implement the Grupo Calvo volunteer program in Spain, Italy, and El Salvador

Environmental Challenges

  • Commodity price volatility
  • Brand reputation
  • Regulatory changes
  • Increasing competition
  • Shortage of natural resources or raw material availability
  • CSR/Sustainability
  • Distribution or supply chain breakdowns
  • Loss of or difficulty in attracting talent
  • High market share of distribution products (white label) in some consolidated markets
  • Tuna being considered a product for price markdowns by distribution
  • Concentration of distribution in some consolidated markets
  • Perception by consumers as a staple and low-price food product
  • Lack of awareness of healthy properties and investments to ensure product quality
  • Non-homogeneous raw material (fish) and need for product quality standardization
  • Meeting consumer expectations
  • Logistical and production efficiency and investment in processes
  • Efficiency in the logistics network for distribution of raw materials to factories and finished product to points of sale
  • Efficiency (cost and impact reduction) in main production facilities
  • Investment required to undertake improvements needed in production facilities
  • Business activity impact management
  • Institutional communications
  • Inadequate protection of brand value
  • Crises (food, sustainability, institutional, etc.)
  • Business ethics
  • Supply chain
Mitigation Strategies
  • Solid risk management through the vertical integration of its activities
  • Periodic risk analyses covering all its business activity
  • Redesign of the company’s risk control system
  • Update of the methodology employed to manage risks
  • Implementation of the Tuna Improvement Management (TIM) process
  • Implementation of a new purchasing portal in Brazil
  • Creation of a quality assessment tool
  • Implementation of a pull planning process
  • Implementation of a compliance model and criminal risk prevention in Brazil and Italy
  • Development of policies and new control mechanisms to reduce the risk of corruption
  • Online training courses for all employees of the Group’s America division on compliance and anti-corruption
  • Robust regulatory system to ensure that both its direct activity and the activity of its suppliers fulfill obligations with respect to human rights
  • Alliance with Amfori
  • Voluntary implementation of International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 188
  • Code of Conduct for Suppliers

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: 381/year

Responsible Procurement
  • Grupo Calvo Code of Conduct for Suppliers
  • BSCI Code of Conduct
  • Supplier CSR assessment
  • Electronic portal for procurement process management
  • Pull planning process

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI

Certifications: BRC, IFS, ISO 9001, ISO 22005, BSCI, MSC Chain of Custody, Friend of the Sea, APR

Third-party Assurance: PwC

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 3
  • SDG 5
  • SDG 8
  • SDG 9
  • SDG 12
  • SDG 13
  • SDG 14

The company's sustainability strategy and 2025 objectives are aligned with these goals.

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • Calvo Ecolínea range (organic oil and MSC-certified tuna)
  • Pole & Line tuna products
  • 0% fat tuna

Awards & Recognition

  • Best Responsible Practice Award
  • 3M award for Industrial Safety and Occupational Health in El Salvador
  • Itajaí Social Seal Award