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Sustainability statements 14.3.1
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this year we have had to estimate emissions based
on revenue trend. During 2015 we will nd a suitable
solution to ensure data availability.
Philips Group
Operational carbon footprint for logistics
in kilotonnes CO2-equivalent
2010 - 2014
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Air transport 332 316 295 308 316
Road transport 150 164 98 101 96
Sea transport 167 152 132 141 133
Philips Group 649 632 525 550 545
14.3.2 Biodiversity
Philips recognizes the importance of healthy
ecosystems and rich biodiversity for our company, our
employees, and society as a whole. We aim to minimize
any negative impacts and actively promote ecosystem
restoration activities including biodiversity restoration
projects with social components, sustainable
development, poverty relief.
The Philips Biodiversity policy was issued in 2014 and
progress was made on biodiversity management, both
on sites (e.g. impact measurement), on natural capital
valuation and on the management level. Most
initiatives were led by the Philips Leaders for Nature
(LFN) team, site management, local sustainability
organizations worldwide and Group Sustainability in
Eindhoven, the Netherlands. We continued our global
partnership with the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Netherlands Committee
and our participation in the IUCN LFN program which
brings companies, NGOs and governments together to
work on the topic of business and biodiversity. Next, we
made intensive use of the internal company-wide
social network platform to create and share activities
and achievements including training programs.
In 2014 a biodiversity impact assessment was
performed for all our industrial sites, using the geo-
locations of these sites and the Integrated Biodiversity
Assessment Tool (IBAT). For every industrial site the
nearest Key Biodiversity Area or IUCN protected area
was determined as well as the distance to such area.
After further validation with our industrial site sta, it
appeared that only our Glemsford (UK) site is located
within a radius of 1 kilometer from such an area, the
Glemsford Pits, but has no impact on its biodiversity.
The results of our assessment for all industrial sites can
be found at www.philips.com/sustainability.
Philips continued in 2014 to work with Trucost and
performed an Environmental Prot and Loss (EP&L)
analysis to help identify natural capital dependency
“hot spots” and place a nancial value on Philips
environmental impacts. The environmental impact of
Philips itself is limited as the company is not very energy
intensive and is not emitting large quantities of high
impact substances. The impact of our supply chain
however is signicantly higher than our own impact. For
this reason, we used the identied hot-spots in our
supply chain as input for our CDP Supply Chain
program. More information on that program can be
found at sub-section 14.2.8, Supplier indicators, of this
Annual Report. In this Annual Report, Philips has also
followed the IIRC Integrated Reporting <IR> framework
which includes natural capital as a source of value
creation. Together with the WBCSD we are further
developing the EP&L concept and methodology,
including the environmental benets.
14.3.3 Green Operations
Our Green Operations program, related to improving
the environmental performance of our manufacturing
facilities, focuses on most contributors to climate
change, but also addresses water, recycling of waste
and chemical substances.
In the course of 2013 we implemented an improved
process to report chemicals used in processes in more
detail. New chemicals on which we will focus our
reduction eorts and new reduction targets will be
incorporated in the next Green Operations program.
Philips Group
Green Operations in % unless otherwise stated
2014
2007
baseline year
2014
actual1)
2015
target1)
Total CO2 from
manufacturing
873 kilotonnes CO2
-equivalent (46) (25)
Water 4.0 million m3 (21) (10)
Materials provided for
recycling via external
contractor per total waste 79 80 80
Restricted substances:
Benzene emission 52 kg (100) (50)
Mercury emission 185 kg (96) (100)
CFCs, HCFCs 156 kg (100) (100)
Hazardous substances
Lead emission 1,838 kg (100) (100)
PFCs 1,534 kg (100) (35)
Toluene emission 2,210 kg (93) (90)
Xylene emission 4,502 kg 410 (90)
Styrene 80,526 kg (94) (90)
Antimony, Arsenic and
their compounds 18 kg (100) (100)
1) Against the base year 2007
Energy use in manufacturing
Total energy usage in manufacturing amounted to
11,257 terajoules in 2014, of which Lighting consumes
about 74%. Compared to 2013, energy consumption at
Philips went down by 6%. This was driven by a decrease
of activities in high energy intensive operations in
Lighting, organizational changes, and energy eciency
improvements, partly oset by new acquisitions
reporting for the rst time. The energy use of our
discontinued operations amounted to 2,160 terajoules
in 2014 (2013: 2,197 terajoules).