Valio Carbo™ partnership programme offers customers solutions for reducing food chain greenhouse gas emissions

Many food companies are looking for solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their own value chain. Particularly challenging is the reduction of indirect emissions outside their own operations, the so-called scope 3 emissions. Valio has advanced climate roadmap 2035 for milk value chain in Finland. Valio’s biggest emission reduction efforts are taking place on Finnish dairy farms, as most of the emissions are generated on farms. At the same time, the emissions of Valio’s partner customers are also being reduced.

Valio’s climate programme focuses on significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions throughout the milk value chain. The work is based on concrete emission reduction measures, science-based targets and independently verified emissions reporting. Valio’s climate work focuses on reducing our own emissions, not on offsetting them.

“Our customers are very interested in Valio’s climate actions and the ways in which they can reduce their own climate emissions. Particularly challenging for companies are the so-called scope 3 emissions, i.e. the indirect emissions that originate in parts of the value chain over which the company has no direct control. These include, for example, purchases of raw materials by the food industry or emissions from primary production. Indirect emissions are estimated to account for more than 90% of emissions in the food chain, which is why operators in the food industry are looking for ways to meet climate targets in a cost-effective way,” explains Timo Pajari, Senior Vice President, Business Unit Powders from Valio.