Sustainable timber management at Pallet Logistics leads the „Forests A List“
„Brambles Limited“ has been included in the „Forests A List 2017“ of the non-profit organisation CDP. According to Brambles, the inclusion was due to its sustainable procurement measures in the reporting year.
20. June 2018
The reusable container pool provider IFCO previously belonged to Brambles. The sale has now been announced. The CHEP brand is not affected.
„Brambles Limited“ has been included in the „Forests A List 2017“ of the non-profit organisation CDP. According to Brambles, the inclusion was due to its sustainable procurement measures in the reporting year.
Carmelo Alonso Bernaola (Photo: Brambles)
„As a sustainable company, Brambles is ideally positioned to reduce both wood waste and the use of raw wood in global supply chains,“ explains Carmelo Alonso Bernaola, Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain
Five other international companies are located next to Brambles on the forest list, writes Brambles, naming L'Oreal, SCA, Tetra Pak, Unilever and the UPM-Kymmene Corporation. According to the report, hundreds of companies Forest data for independent assessment according to the CDP's own methodology. The list was compiled at the request of 827 investors with a combined capital of more than 100 trillion US dollars.
For more sustainability
As a supply chain logistics service provider, Brambles is primarily responsible for Pallets of the brand „CHEP“ and boxes under the label „IFCO“ is known. „As a sustainable company, Brambles is ideally positioned to minimise both wood waste and the use of raw wood in the global timber industry. Supply Chains to reduce our carbon footprint. By sharing and reusing our pooled carriers, our customers saved 1.4 million trees last year alone,“ comments Carmelo Alonso Bernaola, Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain, on Brambles' inclusion in the Forests A list.
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The company is currently pursuing Sustainability goals By then, only wood from certified sources is to be used. Brambles is proud to say that the proportion of wood from certified sources is already 99.1 per cent. Brambles has its own timber farms in South Africa and supplies its operations there with sustainably grown wood.
[infotext icon]CDP and the Forests A list
The abbreviation „CDP“ originally stood for „Carbon Disclosure Project“. The organisation is a network of 827 companies representing a combined capital of around 100 trillion US dollars and is represented in more than 50 countries. The „Forests-A-List“ is published on the CDP website alongside the „Climate-A“ and „Water-A“ lists. More than 5600 companies have provided information in response to CDP requests.
