Environment

Brembo is committed to significantly reducing its greenhouse gas emissions through targets aligned with scenarios for limiting global temperature increase to 1.5°C, as stipulated by the commitments made by the United Nations at the COP21 in Paris and the Net Zero criteria of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

These targets are set within a short-term horizon to 2030 and a long-term horizon extending to 2040:

• By 2040, Brembo aims to achieve the following targets: 
  • Reduce absolute Scope 1 and market-based Scope 2 emissions by 90% compared to 2020 levels;
  • Reduce absolute Scope 3 emissions by 90% compared to 2020 levels; 
  • Neutralize absolute emissions by a maximum of 10% compared to 2020 levels.
     
• By 2030, there are intermediates targets: 
  • Reduce absolute (market-based Scope 2) indirect emissions by 100%;
  • Ensure that 100% of electricity used comes from renewable sources;
  • Reduce absolute Scope 1 and market-based Scope 2 emissions by 42% compared to 2020 levels;
  • Reduce absolute Scope 3 emissions by 42% compared to 2020 levels.

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Brembo recognizes that pollutant and water emissions from its production processes may adversely affect the health of communities adjacent to its facilities and pose risks to local flora and fauna. To mitigate these impacts, Brembo has implemented an Environment and Energy Management System that establishes common requirements across all Group plants, aimed at maintaining environmental risks well below the emission limits mandated by the legislation of the countries in which it operates.

The target established by Brembo stipulates that pollutant concentrations in air and water discharges must be maintained at levels lower than 60% of the limits imposed by local regulations.

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Brembo has defined a strategy that promotes the rational use of water, progressively reducing its use in production processes and promoting supply from alternative sources, such as recovery from other processes. 
As regards the risk of contamination of environmental matrices due to water discharge, the requirements of the procedure are equally stringent: the limits to be observed are up to 60% lower than those established by local regulations.

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Brembo has established measurable outcome-oriented targets to assess progress in its sustainability efforts. The goal is for all Brembo plants to achieve 100% measurement of water flows by 2025. To meet this target, efforts will focus on installing meters in locations where they are currently absent and closely monitoring the installation program to ensure successful achievement by 2025. The accurate measurement can lead to potential water save of 5-10%. The target relates to the reduction of water consumption, although it is not mandatory by legislation. 

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Brembo is committed to the prevention and protection of biodiversity.

Brembo intends to carry out a resilience analysis on its value chain (upstream) over the next 1-2 years. The Group recognizes that the extraction of raw materials can lead to deforestation and environmental pollution. Moreover, the expansion of extraction sites, along with the construction of buildings and facilities, contributes to land consumption, which may result in a loss of biodiversity.

 
In response to these concerns, Brembo started an initial assessment of the biodiversity status in the regions where its plants are situated, focusing the initial attention on its own operations.

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With regard to the use of resources and the circular economy, Brembo deals with the issues of design, production and use of goods aimed at minimizing impact throughout the entire life cycle.

 
In this regard, Brembo is committed to minimizing the production of waste and increasing waste destined for recycling/recovery/reuse, achieving the goal of eliminating waste destined for landfill. The commitment to reducing the waste of non-renewable materials encourages the classification of waste as secondary raw materials (MSM), the replacement of raw materials of primary origin with secondary raw materials, the implementation of actions to reduce waste production in all phases of the production process and the optimization of waste management according to the "Pyramid of Waste Sources".
 

The Group also wants to ensure that the use of all environmental resources, necessary to meet its current needs, is managed responsibly so as not to damage and impoverish them for use by future generations and expresses its intention to keep the consumption of renewable resources within the limits of their replenishment.
 

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Brembo to managing negative impacts and risks has set two measurable, outcome-oriented and time-bound targets:

• direct 95% of the total waste produced towards recovery processes by 2030 encouraging all plants to divert waste from landfills, reduce the extraction of new raw materials, and promote a more responsible use of resources (the base year for measuring progress is 2022 , during which the baseline value indicated that 85% of the total waste produced was directed to recovery processes); 
  • there is an intermediate target in 2025 that correspond to 90%.
     
• keeping below 5% the percentage of hazardous waste produced during the years (the base year for measuring progress is 2022).

The actual performance is in line with the defined target. 

Both the targets are set voluntary and not mandatory (required by legislation). 

The rate of recyclable content in Brembo’s products is very high: 91.89%, which means that Brembo’s products can be almost entirely recycled (packaging is not included in this computation). 

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