Challenge: Climate change requires urgent action, bold commitments, and innovation. Finding a way to shorten the lead times for game-changing technologies and turn the long lifetimes of energy infrastructure into a net positive for the climate will require a multi-faced, collaborative approach.

 

Goal: Reduce greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions 30% including sourcing 60% of electricity from renewable energy, and deliver carbon neutral operations by 2050 or sooner

 

Baseline: 5,380,000 MTCO2e of GHG emissions| 2.9% renewable electricity use

 
 
 
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Goal:

Reduce greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions 30% including sourcing 60% of electricity from renewable energy, and deliver carbon neutral operations by 2050 or sooner

 
 
 

Roadmap to 2030

To begin working on our ten-year ambition, we will first:

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Reduce our overall energy use by investing in Bold Energy Plan projects

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Source low-carbon power, heating and cooling by deploying a global renewable energy strategy

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Create low-carbon industrial processes

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Advocate for sound climate policy that fosters low-carbon innovation

 
 
 

As a longstanding scientific leader, DuPont also has an important role to play in this global effort around technology innovation.  We’re also actively pursuing opportunities to reduce GHG emissions along the value chains for a wide range of DuPont processes and products.  

 
 
 

The primary mechanism for reducing our energy use is the Bold Energy Plan, a program we launched in 2008 to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at our global facilities. In 2019, we completed 66 energy savings projects with a savings potential of about 14,200 MTCO2e for the year. Our Procurement, Sustainability, Engineering and EHS teams are also currently working to develop a global renewable energy strategy that will make a significant impact on our operational footprint.

 
 
 
Improving our climate impacts
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The DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences (N&B) site in Grindsted, Denmark, has recently replaced all former coal-fired fuel sources with sustainably sourced wood chips1 and thereby reduced its CO2 emissions by more than 40,000 tons CO2e per year. As a result of the conversion, the site has also significantly increased its production of surplus heat that is delivered back into the local district heat network. This allows the site to aid in supplying local households with sustainably sourced heat, thereby helping to avoid additional CO2 emissions in that system as well. 

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At our Safety & Construction manufacturing plant in Spruance, Virginia, we worked with our customer, Veolia, to overhaul utility production equipment to be more energy efficient, including converting coal-driven boilers to natural gas so that coal is no longer used at the plant. Improvements at this one site are estimated to reduce DuPont’s overall GHG emissions by 2–3%. 

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In late 2015, our specialty products businesses began a multiphase project to reduce anhydrous ammonia in our N&B New Century, Kansas, manufacturing site. Although anhydrous ammonia is a highly efficient refrigerant with less global warming potential than synthetic refrigerant alternatives, in October 2019, New Century succeeded in reducing the handling of anhydrous ammonia by 90 percent, which will make a significant, positive impact on the environment as well as employee and community health and safety.

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DuPont’s Asturias and Valencia sites in Spain purchase renewable energy that covers 100% of their electricity needs of those buildings. The electricity contract for these two sites includes Green Origin certificates for all on-site annual energy consumption.

 
 
 
Energy and Emissions - 2019

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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