Page 107 - ABFRL SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2016-17

OUR PARTNER IN THE

SUSTAINABILITY JOURNEY

The Aditya Birla Group's vision is to make all businesses sustainable by 2017, and this was one of the key
drivers for ABFRL to set forth on their journey of sustainability. It started with launching of the 'ReEarth'
initiative in 2013 and the related activities to aid in its implementation.

Energy & Carbon Green Sustainable
Footprint Buildings Products

Water Safety Packaging

WASH CSR Waste

Coupled with the corporate sustainability framework, these activities were put into action in meeting
regulatory compliance and benchmarking with international standards within peer group companies
to prepare themselves for potential future change in sustainability related regulations and business
demands. The sustainability goals were de ned for 2017 with targets for 2020 and implementation
plans which were supported by robust monitoring and review mechanisms.

Ernst & Young's (EY) role is to provide EY reviewed sustainability, missions, targets and
their expertise to ABFRL in achieving protocols to ensure continued performance
across factories, warehouses and o ces. The
these goals and targets. EY facilitated
review included document checks, stakeholder
and supported the internal teams in
interviews and site visits. The objective of these
gaining deeper understanding on visits were to arrive at gaps against Aditya Birla
concepts and tools such as the Higg Group sustainability standards and guidelines,
Index, green building certi cation, State and Central regulatory requirements and
industry best practices. Based on these
renewable energy, green house gas
assessments recommendations, action plans
emission reduction, energy and water
were deliberated upon to address the gaps as
e ciency measures, sustainable supply well as to enhance the overall sustainability
chain and waste management circular performance of ABFRL to bring them at par with
economy initiatives. the global standards.