Environment

Actions toward Sustainability

As a leader in the development of sustainable solutions for transportation and according to the mission, vision and values of the company, Abengoa Bioenergía is developing a huge effort to find and develop more sustainable solutions for the transportation sector. Since its birth, the company has focused its strategy on the development of technologies that contribute to Sustainable Development, among which are:

• Production of biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass.
• Development of alternative technologies for the generation of renewable electricity.
• Development of systems for producing lignocellulosic biomass under sustainable schemes, avoiding deforestation and the use of high biodiversity areas.
• Demonstration projects of hybrid production systems to bring the technology to commercial scale.
• Improvement of the life cycle of the facilities and production processes, increasing CO2 emissions savings in the transport sector.
• Development of their own certification Standard (RBSA) to demonstrate the sustainability of the biofuels produced - this Standard was approved by the European Commission in July 2011.

The main objective is to be a reference as a world leader in the production of biofuels, developing innovative solutions and advancing in the technology of biorefinery, basing all activities on respect for the environment, social development and economic sustainability.

Introduction and Adaptation of GHG Emission Control Systems

Abengoa Bioenergía champions that the use of biofuels in transportation can lead to meaning a reduction of up to 85% of GHG emissions in comparison to fossil fuels. Therefore biofuels are clearly beneficial for the environment due to their lower GHG emission grade.

With the aim of fully evaluating the decrease in emissions, improving the sustainability of the products and counting all the GHG emissions related to the global activities of the company, in accordance with the strategy of Abengoa, it has undertaken an ambitious emission control plan related to each aspect of the products and raw materials used and manufactured in all plants and offices worldwide.

To this end, we have teams of people and managers especially for coordinating and performing the adaptation of the accounting and financial systems to this new requirement; and a great conciliatory job is being carried out so that all suppliers, without exception, incorporate into their deliveries a GHG emissions report associated to their products. This report reflects both the consumption of energy from different sources used for the manufacture of the product and the raw materials used, the distance covered and the mode of transport used from production to delivery.