It is estimated that 37% of global CO₂ emissions come from the transportation industry. Hence the challenge is to implement actions that can decarbonize our mobility as soon as possible.
Today, we celebrate Inter-American Air Quality Day (DIAIRE), which provides us with the opportunity to reflect on the actions that help us prevent and reduce the factors creating air pollution. As leaders in transportation infrastructure operations, we’ve worked ceaselessly to create the processes that today make us a benchmark in sustainable practices.
Measuring Our Impact
At Aleatica, we seek to build a comprehensive vision of mobility. That’s why we use metrics in line with the best international practices in order to establish clear rules and measure our progress. Using materiality analysis, we have identified the most important issues for our internal and external stakeholders, as well as the social and environmental needs of each business unit, in accordance with the 10 Principles of the United Nations Global Compact and those established in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
In this regard, environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) are part of our operation’s core strategy. They remind us that our business mission is not just to generate revenue, but to create value in every sense of the word. Seeking to reduce our carbon footprint in order to fight climate change is no doubt part of that.
Climate Change Strategy
To accelerate the creation of climate change solutions, we have created a strategy based on an international guidelines diagnostic and focused on two lines of action:
1. Mitigation strategy for the reduction of GHG emissions: scope 1 (direct emissions from combustion sources controlled by the company) and scope 2 (indirect emission from energy consumption) with a 2022-2030 action plan, which considers 3 main areas:
- Efficiency: Use of more efficient office machinery in order to reduce energy consumption,
- Decarbonization: Progressive substitution of the vehicle fleet by means of more efficient fuel use and/or acquisition of hybrid or electric vehicles to reduce GHG emissions,
- Clean energy sources: Clean energy consumption (installation and operation of solar or certified panels) to reduce and/or eliminate GHG emissions.
Additionally, we have implemented the Carbon Emissions Protocol, which sets out governance, management and communication methodologies for GHG emissions in order to make progress on energy consumption mitigation measures and progressive low-carbon operation at our assets.
2. Strategy for adaptation and resilience to the effects of change
We have implemented a short- and medium-term action plan with the aim of forecasting and reducing the risks associated with climate change at our business units having high degrees of vulnerability due to their geographic and historic characteristics.
With these actions, we are making progress toward compliance with our proposal to reach net-zero emissions across our entire global operations by 2050. Thus, we shall continue working to be an agent of positive change in order to create safer, more sustainable mobility.