Climate Change Data

Galderma

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2023)

Reporting Period: 2023

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:347.2 thousand tons CO2e (Scope 1 & 2)
Scope 1 Emissions:7.6 thousand tons CO2e
Scope 2 Emissions:5.5 thousand tons CO2e
Scope 3 Emissions:332.1 thousand tons CO2e
Renewable Energy Share:100% in all manufacturing plants
Waste Generated:4501 tons

ESG Focus Areas

  • Compliance and Corporate Governance
  • Medical education and training
  • Product Quality & Safety
  • Health & Safety
  • Serving communities: local engagement
  • Sustainable production: transportation
  • Scientific knowledge
  • Talent development
  • Sustainable products: packaging
  • Employee engagement & labor practices
  • Sustainable production: greenhouse gases
  • Product innovation
  • Sustainable products: formulation
  • Awareness & Advocacy
  • Responsible sourcing
  • Product availability and access
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Sustainable production: water and waste
  • Service and solution innovation
  • Support for investigator-initiated trials
  • Serving communities: philanthropy
  • Sustainable production: biodiversity

Environmental Achievements

  • Achieved 100% renewable electricity in all four manufacturing plants
  • Recorded a >10% reduction in water withdrawal intensity since 2019
  • Achieved and maintained 0 tons of waste to landfill from operations

Social Achievements

  • Trained more than 130,000 HCPs and held more than 11,000 events in 2023 (40% and 30% growth respectively compared to the previous year)
  • Reached more than 25,000 dermatologists and HCPs through GSSF activities
  • Gathered data from over 10,000 patients in a published study profiling sensitive skin

Governance Achievements

  • Established a dedicated Board of Directors sub-committee, an executive-level ESG oversight mechanism (ESG Council), and a cross-functional ESG working group
  • Linked executive compensation to the achievement of ESG ambition
  • Aligned ESG strategy with TCFD recommendations

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Carbon neutrality in manufacturing plants
Medium-term Goals:
  • Gradually reduce Scope 1 & 2 emissions in our manufacturing plants
  • Reduce water and waste intensity by 20% by 2030 versus a 2022 baseline
  • Engage, educate and train over 250,000 HCPs annually
Short-term Goals:
  • Achieve 100% renewable electricity in all manufacturing plants (achieved in 2023)

Environmental Challenges

  • Heightened operating costs and liability risks due to reinforced climate laws and regulations
  • Sustained reduced supply of raw materials due to structural changes in suppliers’ production means/strategies
  • Increased cost of key raw materials/inputs driven by supply chain disruptions and/or rapid shifts in consumer demand
  • Increased impairment linked to damages to sites and business interruptions due to severe weather events
  • Higher operating costs and/or lost sales due to severe weather events
  • Increased operating costs driven by higher energy needs to ensure business continuity during chronic weather events
  • Increased capital expenditure to improve efficiency of manufacturing process to ensure business continuity during chronic weather events
Mitigation Strategies
  • ESG governance in place to create transparency around existing and emerging regulations and endorse action plans and associated investments to ensure compliance
  • ESG governance in place to create transparency around stakeholders’ expectations and endorse action plans and associated investments to ensure we meet these expectations
  • Strengthening business continuity plans at manufacturing plants
  • Reviewing raw materials to further de-risk supply

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: at least 80% of spend that can be influenced by procurement function

Responsible Procurement
  • Code of Ethics
  • Supplier Code
  • Responsible-sourcing initiative monitoring social and environmental performance across four pillars (Health & Safety, Labor Standards, Business Integrity and the Environment)

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Extreme weather events (heavy precipitation, severe storms, fire weather, hydrological drought, extreme heat, coastal flood)
  • Damages to sites and business interruptions due to severe weather events
Transition Risks
  • Heightened operating costs and liability risks due to reinforced climate laws and regulations
  • Increased capital expenditures to meet country-specific decarbonization targets
  • Sustained reduced supply of raw materials due to structural changes in suppliers’ production means/strategies
  • Increased cost of key raw materials/inputs driven by supply chain disruptions and/or rapid shifts in consumer demand
  • Reduced access to capital/financing opportunities due to misalignment with stakeholders’ expectations in terms of climate performance
  • Lower sales caused by misalignment with customers’ expectations in terms of sustainability performance
Opportunities
  • Reduced operating costs given higher efficiency and lower resource consumption in manufacturing process
  • Reduced operating costs given lower reliance on expensive carbon-intensive energy-generation methods

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: TCFD

Certifications: ISO 14001