Every year, October 24th marks the International Day Against Climate Change, a moment to reflect on how this global issue is rapidly transforming our planet, the critical need to raise awareness, and the importance of creating collective strategies to slow its progress and foster positive impact. Climate change is a pressing threat that requires immediate global action and shared responsibility to define concrete measures that help us both mitigate its effects and adapt to them. This reality affects us all and is regarded as one of the greatest challenges of our time. However, through unified and committed efforts, we can work to reverse the climate crisis and pave the way for a more sustainable future.
Identifying the root causes of this crisis is essential for addressing it effectively. The relentless burning of fossil fuels, transportation emissions, electricity generation from non-renewable sources, deforestation, food production, and various industrial processes are collectively damaging and weakening our atmosphere—and by extension, our planet—at an alarming rate.
Molecor in action for the climate
This international day also pursues one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), specifically SDG 13 Climate Action, focused on the need to take urgent measures to combat climate change and its effects. This is why Molecor is firmly committed to carry out all those actions within its reach and to set new challenges on the horizon so that its impact on the planet is as little negative as possible. Proof of this can be found in all the milestones that have been reached during 2024.
The planning of the Sustainability Strategy is one of the most important actions. One of its main ambitions is to become a Net Zero company by 2040, and to this end, it is developing a Decarbonization Plan to achieve this goal and a Climate Risk Analysis.
The calculation and preparation of the Organization's Carbon Footprint report is another aspect of its firm commitment to the environment. The company is calculating its greenhouse gas emissions emitted directly or indirectly as a result of its activities using the well-known Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard (GHG Protocol) quantification methodology. The results obtained will be available in the coming weeks, as they are currently in the verification phase. Knowing the carbon footprint offers the company a very powerful tool to know which are the main consumptions and which are the ones that produce more emissions in order to be able to apply different measures to reduce them and reduce our carbon footprint.
Obtaining the Energy Management System certification in accordance with the ISO 50001 standard at the Loeches production plant, and the current implementation at the Alovera, Alcázar de San Juan and Antequera centers, is another milestone. This certification allows us to become aware of and take responsibility for the different energy uses and consumption of the production centers, whose continuous energy monitoring and review will provide us with powerful information to be able to establish energy saving measures in the most significant uses and equipment and thus improve the efficiency and energy performance of our facilities. Another commitment is to increase the use of electricity from renewable sources, such as the current photovoltaic panel plant at the Loeches plant and the purchase of energy from guaranteed sources, since the use of this energy source allows us to significantly reduce the CO2 emissions associated with this consumption and, consequently, our carbon footprint.