How Fairtrade helps growers to build resilience to climate change
Fighting climate change in the plant
Decarbonising our plants by doing more with less.
We operate across 21 plants in 9 countries and produce around 4.5 million tonnes of sugar each year.
The harvested sugar beet or sugar cane is delivered to our plants by our LOCAL CHAMPIONS, and we begin working to produce sugar for a range of food and drink products, as well as valuable co-products such as electricity, animal feed, bioethanol and much more.
Where do our emissions come from within the plant
In the plant contributes to approximately a third of our carbon emissions in areas such as:
- Slicing and crushing the crop
- Extraction and evaporation
- Crystallisation
- Cooling and drying the sugar.
Water within the plant
It helps that sugar beet and sugar cane is made up of around 70% water as we reuse this in the extraction process.
Our actions in the plant
Take a look at some of our latest stories on how our LOCAL CHAMPIONS are decarbonising our plants:
Working together we form a global mindset so that we can all make a difference, sharing knowledge and innovating to tackle big issues like climate change.
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