Logista is committed to minimising the environmental impact of its activity.

Our Quality and Environment Master Plan and Quality, Environment and Energy Efficiency Policy establish guidelines and good practices for optimising the use of resources and preventing pollution from processes. These are in strict compliance with regulations and with the voluntary targets signed up to by the Group.

Logista is therefore involved in various initiatives that aim to control and manage the current and foreseeable impacts of its activity on the environment, and to address key environmental aspects.

Logista has specified the main environmental and quality indicators relevant to its sustainable development, and monitors and evaluates these regularly, carrying out energy audits in each country and for each business.

In addition, Logista promotes respect for the environment among its employees, customers, suppliers and society as a whole. Logista was one of the signatory companies to Spain’s ‘manifesto for a sustainable economic recovery’ published in 2020. This declaration advocates a recovery towards a more sustainable and robust economy, calling for the establishment of alliances to ensure that, in addition to being effective from a socioeconomic perspective, stimulus policies that respond to the COVID-19 pandemic are aligned with sustainability policies and with the European Green Deal.

The Quality, Environment and Energy Efficiency Policy is available on the Group’s Intranet and on its corporate website, so that all employees and other stakeholders can be familiar with it.

Pursuant to the ISO 14064 standard, Logista has also calculated its carbon footprint, using the methodology set out in the GHG Protocol. The Environmental Management System of Logista’s businesses in Spain is also certified according to the ISO 14001 standard.

Environmental management

Logista includes environmental risks and opportunities in its multidisciplinary procedure for managing risks across the Group. The risk assessment process takes environmental risks and opportunities into account, including those arising from changes in regulations, the physical environment and other climate-related developments.

In 2020, for the first time, Logista incorporated the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) into the assessment of risks and opportunities related to climate change. Introducing the TCFD recommendations at Logista is a project that is currently underway and consists of two phases; the first of which has already been completed and whose results are presented in this report.

These recommendations apply not only to financial institutions but to any other organisation, particularly the four sectors potentially most affected by climate change: energy, transport, materials and buildings, and agriculture, food and forestry. The objective of this initiative is to provide information about the economic impact of climate change on the organisation, so that the Group’s stakeholders (whether they are clients, lenders or investors) can understand the material risks ahead.

The TCFD analysis carried out by Logista has considered two sets of physical scenarios (low emissions and high emissions) and two sets of transition scenarios (Stated Policies Scenario and Future Policies for Sustainable Development).

 

 

Logista has analysed the above emissions and transitional scenarios outlined by the TCFD, through which it has identified future risks and opportunities.

Logista subsequently assessed the impacts in terms of economic parameters (impact on revenue, expenditure, assets, etc.), in line with the TCFD. The impacts on the Group’s specific services (products and services, supply chain/value chain, adaptation and mitigation, investment in R&D and operations) were also assessed, together with the Group’s resilience to impacts, i.e. its capacity to respond to physical and transitional risks and to take advantage of opportunities identified.

To be able to fulfil the requirements of the TCFD, a cross-cutting procedure has been implemented in the organisation that involves all members of the organisation in identifying and assessing risks.

Under Logista’s risk management system, the identification and assessment of risks, including risks related to the environment, must be carried out at least once per year. In reality, the frequency is greater (weekly or more often) due to the ongoing monitoring and revision of the risk management process.

This risk management process is applied to all the Group’s business areas, departments and in all countries in which it operates (Spain, France, Italy, Portugal and Poland).

The results of this risk identification and assessment process are reported to the Audit and Control Committee.

Given the Group’s business activity, Logista does not have any environmental provisions or guarantees that could be significant in relation to the Company’s assets, its financial position or results. However, Logista is insured, applying the precautionary principle, through a civil liability policy that covers claims for personal injury and damages accidentally caused by sudden or unexpected contaminating events.

Main environment-related risks and opportunities

Climate change

The Group calculates and promotes the reduction of its carbon footprint, as part of its initiatives to minimise the environmental impact of its activity.

Logista calculates the carbon footprint of all its businesses and activities in the different countries in which it operates, including the majority of the Group’s outsourced activities, such as 100% of the emissions resulting from transport and franchise operations, as well as indirect activities such as the purchase of goods and services, based on the emissions factors and standard for reporting Greenhouse Gases (GHG) of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) and on the UNEEN-16258 standard.

An independent accredited entity verifies the carbon footprint calculation under the UNE-EN ISO 14064 standard, confirming the figures, reliability and traceability of the process.

The Group’s transport division also notifies its clients, free of charge, of the carbon footprint of their deliveries and travel.

Logista has significantly improved its efficiency ratio through its continued efforts to optimise energy effciency in its processes and premises, representing a decline of its emissions in absolute terms.

1 For the months in which no current data is available, a calculation has has been made based on estimated forecasts and/or data from the previous year.
2 The reason for the variation between the ‘2019’ data reported in the non-financial information statement (EINF) for the 2019 financial year compared with those reported in the 2020 EINF is due to the adjustment of estimated data from the previous year to the updated data obtained in 2020.

Emission reduction targets

Global emission reduction target

Logista has developed its own Sustainability Index to identify opportunities for reducing emissions, based on the Science-Based Target (SBT) initiative.

After analysing all the existing methodologies, Logista has taken the view that the GEVA method (Greenhouse gas emissions per value-added unit) is the most suitable method for its activity.

Logista has reviewed this methodology and adapted it to its transport activity, since it is the most pertinent in terms of emissions within the Group. The proposed unit must therefore take account of the distances covered.

This indicator shows the Overall Performance of Logista’s emissions because it includes Scope 1 (which includes transport activities with operational control), Scope 2 and Scope 3 (which include all emissions related to transport activities without operational control: upstream and downstream emissions) emissions, as well as emissions from franchise transport.

Logista has considered CDP recommendations concerning year-on-year reduction and included an annual emissions reduction of 2.1%. Logista has also included the vast majority of Scope 3 emissions in its targets, following the GEVA recommendation referred to above, since 84% of Logista’s emissions come from Scope 3 categories. The result is an Overall Target which accounts for and includes 95% of all Logista’s emissions (considering Scopes 1+2+3).

Logista is currently working on rolling out this emissions reduction target in its primary processes.

Renewable Energy Consumption Target

Committed to renewable energy, Logista aims to consume green energy in all its directly managed offices in Spain, France, Italy and Portugal (Poland is not included because its electricity consumption accounts for 2%).

2020 target = 99% (achieved)

Sustainable use of resources

Logista is fully aware of how important the efficient use of resources is. As such, it compiles and analyses information about water consumption, waste and about the materials that are most important for the Group.

Use of materials by source

Water consumption

The discharging of wastewater is not considered a relevant aspect at Logista because, due to the Group’s type of activity, this water is discharged into municipal water systems.

In the 2020 financial year, water accounted for 0.04% of the Group’s environmental impact, because it is only used for sanitary purposes (0.01% in 2019).

In the 2020 financial year, 98,410* m3 of the supply network was consumed, in accordance with local limits. In 2019, water consumption from the supply network stood at 93,873 m3 and was in line with the established local limits.

* For the months in which no current data is available, a calculation has has been made based on estimated forecasts and/or data from the previous year.

Consumption of raw materials

The principal raw materials consumed by the Group and their quantities are shown below:

Efficiency measures

Effciency measures for improving the use of raw materials include the recovery of reusable cardboard boxes through a system involving specific continuous improvement actions.

In addition, the Group’s Environment, Quality and Energy Efficiency Policy includes, among its commitments, the implementation of policies and good practices for the rational use of resources, where the formula underpinning its processes is optimisation.

Circular economy, waste prevention and management

The Group has significantly reduced waste and emissions produced by its activity through the use and recovery of reusable cardboard boxes, via a system already implemented at Logista’s centres in Spain, France, Italy and Portugal, and in its specialist express courier service for parcels and documents.

Due to the nature of its activity, the main types of waste currently generated by the Company are paper and cardboard, wood (pallets), municipal waste, plastics and oils.

Energy management

The main sources of energy consumption in the Company are electricity, natural gas, diesel and fuel oil. The quantities consumed are shown in the following table:

1 For the months in which no current data is available, a calculation has has been made based on estimated forecasts and/or data from the previous year.
2 The reason for the variation between the ‘2019’ data reported in the non-financial information statement (EINF) for the 2019 financial year compared with those reported in the 2020 EINF is due to the adjustment of estimated data from the previous year to the updated data obtained in 2020.