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2021 Sustainability Summary Thriving in a changing landscape
1 CARBON FOOTPRINT
We see climate change as a significant global threat and therefore Emissions composition TOTAL in tonnes of C02 equivalent
track our greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related risks.
CY 2019 CY 2020
This year Ravensdown’s direct carbon emissions reduction
UPSTREAM – Scope 3
target was increased to 30% reduction by 2030. The current
year’s performance is already 16% below the base year and Coastal shipping 182 448
GHG intensity also fell by 5% this year. Some of this year’s
Shipping 91,259 80,346
initiatives are listed overleaf.
CORE – Scope 1 and 2
Ravensdown operational GHG Emissions to date & reduction target,
scope 1+2 Manufacturing start-up 525 941
18000 Heavy & light vehicle fleet 4,870 4,524
16000
14000 Net electricity 1,350 1,528
12000
10000
Lime drying 3,353 2,605
tCO2e
8000
Aerial spreading 4,850 4,269
6000
4000 DOWNSTREAM – Scope 3
2000
0 Waste 195 238
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030
target Air travel 546 239
Distribution 29,365 29,416
2020 core emissions only
GHG losses on farm direct from fertiliser 1,095,694 1,163,593
TOTAL 1,232,190 1,288,146
Net electricity*1,374
Net electricity* 1,374
Scope 1: sources owned by company.
Plant start-up 941
Plant start-up 941
Scope 2: purchased electricity.
Lime manufacture 2,605
Lime manufacture 2,605
Aerial spreading 4,269
Scope 3: sources not owned or directly controlled.
Aerial spreading 4,269
Light & heavy fleet 4,524 (https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard)
Light & heavy fleet 4,524
Carbon footprint is calculated on a calendar year. The rest of the Integrated Report is related to the financial year.
*excludes distribution loss
Calendar year 2019 emissions have been updated to reflect the latest emission factors.
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CARBON FOOTPRINT — Continued
Upstream Core Downstream
Aerial
Spreading
4,269
Air travel
239
Electricity
Manufacturing Lime
Coastal
process drying
1,528
1,374
shipping 941 2,605
448 Waste
Mobile plant
238
3,112 Distribution
Shipping 26,787
GHG loss
from fertiliser
80,346
Vehicle 1,165,593
1,163,593
fleet
1,312
1,412
Delivery
from port
2,629
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CARBON FOOTPRINT — Continued
• We significantly reduced coal use by
22% and progressed with technical
investigations into renewable fuels
along our pathway to phase out coal.
In the coming year we will implement
some of the identified initiatives and
“SABIC is taking a leading role
undertake further lab tests and
in carving the path toward investigative work.
a low-carbon economy.”
• We are introducing electric forklifts
Dr Bob Maughon,
to our large fleet of diesel-powered
EVP Sustainability forklifts and sought a supplier
Ravensdown has committed
Technology and partnership to assist with this. to plant trees at selected sites
Innovation at
• We continue to see the benefits to restore the landscape,
Ravensdown supplier
of remote working styles and provide habitat and sequester
SABIC, outlines the
carbon. We also help farmers to
scale of investment flexible working policy with reduced
do the same. This volunteer day
at the global leader travel emissions. involved planting 1,000 trees at
in urea production.
• We more than doubled the movement a Rakaia dairy farm.
Sabic.com/en/sustainability
of product via coastal shipping, taking
trucks off the road and reducing diesel
emissions. We will continue to look for • We continue to investigate the use • We have taken a closer look at
opportunities to do so. of biodiesel in mobile plant and acid Ravensdown’s level of climate change
• Carbon emissions in manufacturing plant start-ups. risk this year and are planning our
increased due to the number of acid • Small projects were completed response to climate risk disclosures
plant start-ups, which required more for efficient electricity use over the coming years.
diesel. Once started, our acid plants including LED lighting, electricity Limited assurance for our GHG emissions
generate electricity which is used in monitoring and solar generation inventory has been provided by EY.
our manufacturing plants with excess feasibility investigation. Their statement is available at https://
exported to the national grid. • The company vehicle policy was integratedreporting.ravensdown.co.nz/
updated to better support Climate
Leaders Coalition commitments.
Ravensdown Sustainability Report 2021
4 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
There have been significant • Environmental management plans
improvements and a focused effort and associated communications tools
to improve standards across all of our were upgraded across our network.
New Zealand network that go • We received a single infringement The stormwater
beyond compliance: treatment system at
notice this year, at the Dunedin Works,
the New Plymouth
• All of Ravensdown’s 55 sites are after an accidental release of some site was further
assessed regularly for RMA residual diesel from a drip tray enhanced to improve
compliance and environmental entering the stormwater system. water quality and
impacts are increasingly monitored The spill was immediately cleaned compliance. Site staff
worked closely with
regardless of a consent obligation up to the council’s satisfaction.
the local nursery to
to do so. In response to this event, we have plant more wetland
• Stormwater discharge sampling installed an interceptor and species and keep
was doubled, continuing to make undertaken refresher training with pests out so they
improvements to better understand staff and a thorough risk assessment can fully establish.
our environmental impacts. of the high-risk areas of the plant.
Daily Ambient Sulphur Dioxide Level – three manufacturing sites
• Incident management software was
140
updated to better record, analyse and
Ravensdown holds a number of
respond to environmental hazards 120
resource consents at various sites
and events, as well as health and
which require careful management. 100
safety events. Reporting of events
For example, the three
24-hour average ug/m3
though our incident reporting 80
superphosphate manufacturing
platform continues to improve, with
sites hold consents to discharge
120 submitted this year. The more 60
sulphur dioxide to air from our
reports we receive, the easier it is to
sulphuric acid plants. All three sites 40
identify trends and respond to risks.
have maintained 24-hour average
20
discharges within the Ministry for
Environment (MFE) guideline of 0
1 June 2020 1 September 2020 1 December 2020 1 March 2021
120ug/m3.
Guideline (MFE 2002) Dunedin Monitoring site 1 Dunedin Monitoring site 2
Napier Monitoring site 1 Napier Monitoring site 2 Christchurch Monitoring site
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ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE — Continued
Investment in Stormwater Control
environmental performance Dunedin Works yard surfacing project improved environmental performance
and reduced nutrients in stormwater. Upgraded intake systems at Christchurch
Many infrastructure upgrades focused
and Napier improved safety and environmental management while adding
on reducing environmental impact and
greater efficiency.
improving efficiency. This year saw the
introduction of a formal sustainability
assessment of all major construction
projects to help minimise risk and Dust Control
improve project delivery. The old open-air despatch area at McNab store was replaced by a new fully
Nutrient and stormwater enclosed despatch area. This will vastly improve our environmental footprint
management remain our key on site as well as improving processing capability.
environmental management priorities New dust curtains were installed at Seadown and New Plymouth.
across the stores’ network.
Asbestos Removal
A programme is being progressively completed across our building stock to improve
the safety of our staff, neighbours and visitors. To date we have spent $14.2 million
out of a planned $24 million over a 10-year period. Highlights this year include a full
re-clad of our Gisborne Store (pictured), with the Masterton store scheduled for
completion next year.
Seadown Development
To improve customer service, maintain product quality and improve efficiency at
the Seadown Service Centre, we are continuing a staged upgrade. We completed
a dressing plant upgrade and started installing a new urea conveyor and adding a
The new multi-million dollar intake system second despatch lane. These upgrades will help to maintain product quality
at Christchurch means essential nutrients throughout storage and handling and provide customers and transporters with
can arrive from the port in a safe efficient and improved service delivery.
environmentally responsible way.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE — Continued
An application to renew the air and water
discharge permits for Napier Works is
being prepared. We have increased
engagement with local stakeholders and
interested members of the public so that
the application is informed by an open
and transparent engagement process,
and community issues are appropriately
understood and addressed.
More information can be found
at https://www.ravensdown.co.nz/
ravensdown/napier-21-consent.
Ravensdown is committed to
reducing our environmental footprint
“We’re working
and is already making investments to
with the achieve this goal.
community
to help the
providers of
food to the
community.”
Hamish Price is a
maintenance fitter at
the Napier site where
staff are preparing
their permit renewal
application for the
site’s air and water
discharges.
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Part of the rural landscape Hundreds of local causes are supported
through funding or volunteering. As well
Through our sponsorship programme,
as collaborating with Lincoln and Massey
Ravensdown makes a significant
universities, primary sponsorship
contribution to capacity building and
partners include
therefore improving resilience and
sustainability in the farming community. • New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards
(NZDIA)
Over $20,000 is set aside annually
to support young people studying • New Zealand Young Farmers
towards careers in agriculture. • Agri-Women’s Development Trust
(AWDT)
• Primary Industry Summit (PINZ)
• New Zealand Groundspreaders’
Association
• Pasture Summit
• South Island Dairy Event
• Canterbury West Coast Air Rescue
• House of Science, science in
schools programme
• Foundation for Arable Research.
Sponsoring and supporting
community causes throughout
the country.
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT — Continued
We continued to support AgRecovery events We grant staff one day a year to assist a community or This year we extended our support of the Takaka Hill
for recovering plastic from farms for recycling, environmental group or cause of their choice. This group Biodiversity Group by providing the location for a
recovering an additional 6,200kg of bulk spent a day assisting our supply partner Lyttelton Port native plant nursery for propagating native seedlings
fertiliser bags. Company and Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust with for habitat restoration, and a grant for monitoring the
their habitat restoration project this year. endangered giant land snail population.
Dipton lime Quarry Manager Richard Millar Stakeholder engagement is a vital part of the Napier Opening of the multimillion dollar stormwater upgrade
shows where 7.2 hectares of native forestry will consent renewal process and the Technical Advisory and intake system in Christchurch was a chance to
be planted to complement carbon efficiency Group ensures dialogue continues. listen to residents before the site’s 100th anniversary
initiatives for drying aglime. in 2022.
Ravensdown Sustainability Report 2021
9 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are a blueprint
for a more sustainable world. Each year, Ravensdown measures and
reflects on its contribution to the specific targets under the eight goals
below where we feel we can have the most impact.
Zero Hunger Clean Water
Agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture Waterbodies with good ambient water quality
• With competing pressure for land use such as for housing, • Investment in the New Plymouth stormwater discharge
optimising productivity per hectare is paramount. Without system resulted in improved water quality and consistent
fertiliser New Zealand would be able to support less than compliance with resource consent conditions.
half, and possibly as low as 25%, of the food produced. • The intake system at Severn St (Napier) store was
• Soil testing prior to fertiliser application increased by 36% upgraded to improve safety and efficiency as well as
as customers measure nitrogen efficiency more closely, environmental outcomes.
and 6% more agronomy plans were delivered. • Dunedin yard was surfaced to reduce nutrients in
• 4,759 customers are using the HawkEye mapping system stormwater.
for ordering and GPS-logging nutrient application. In 2020, • Improvements in stormwater management at Gisborne
820,000 hectares of farmland have fertiliser applied using Store received positive regional council feedback.
proof of placement technology to ensure that it ends up
• The ground-breaking ClearTech water treatment system
where it should.
has now been implemented in six commercial dairy farm
• Despite Covid-19 restrictions, there has been significant applications and four livestock truck washing applications.
investment through our sponsorship programme to build Over a single year, these systems saved 12,229,803L of fresh
capacity and resilience in the farming community e.g. South water, equivalent to the daily use of 53,876 New Zealanders.
Island Dairy Event, Lincoln University Focus Farm Day, Young
• Submissions were made to government to guide and
Farmer Competition, Groundspreading, Arable Research and
enhance the direction Aotearoa takes to improve
Primary Industries annual conferences, Horticultural Field
freshwater quality.
Days and Waipaoa Station Farm Cadet Training Trust.
Clean Water continued on page 10
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS — Continued
Clean Water continued • Ravensdown signed the Christchurch Waterways Decent Work & Economic Growth
Partnership along with 42 other interested parties.
Fair, diverse and safe employment & development
• The new multi-million dollar stormwater solution was opportunities
completed at the Christchurch site.
• Complete replacement of our hazard and incident
• 16,588 hours of dedicated environmental advice was
management platform with a bespoke tool to simplify
provided to farmers by Ravensdown’s environmental
reporting, improve accessibility and improve
consultancy.
responsiveness.
• 46 new Farm Environmental Plans covering 25,910 ha were
• Training on coping with stress and uncertainty in
completed to prepare farmers for increased formal
challenging times provided to 105 Ravensdown staff.
environmental obligations.
• Four young people completed our graduate development
• Research collaboration began into quicker, more accurate
programme and entered the workforce.
testing of soil nitrogen available to the plant to improve
nitrogen application precision and reduce risk of losses to • Sponsored ten participants in the Emerging Leaders
waterways. Programme (NZ Institute of Management & Leadership) and
Next Level Leadership (Agri Women’s Development Trust).
• ‘Pioneering to Precision’ programme to develop computer-
controlled aircraft doors which adjust twice as fast for • Financial wellbeing webinars were attended by 109
precision application and avoidance of environmentally Ravensdown staff and their whānau.
sensitive areas. • A new Flexible Working Policy was developed and
• A recognised qualification was developed in conjunction implemented.
with Massey University to address the need for farm
professionals to understand the emerging requirements of
increased farm environmental planning.
• 38 staff were upskilled on carbon emissions management
and Farm Environmental Planning so that all customer-facing
staff deliver consistent, high level advice. This year, industry
figures show the supply of manufactured nitrogen fertiliser
decreased by 8%.
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS — Continued
Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure Sustainable Communities
Manufacturing efficiency, CO2 intensity, research & Preserving natural & cultural heritage, minimising dust & waste
development • Our biosecurity programme (Ravensdown Fertiliser Imports
• Reduced coal use by 22% through enhanced mine planning, System) for importing bulk vessel fertiliser proved its worth
new technology such as moisture meters and progressed as our assessments highlighted risks which required cargo to
along our pathway to phase out coal and introduce be rejected at the origin port.
alternative fuels in operational applications with trials and • Cultural Competency workshops were held to upskill senior
technical investigations into renewable fuels. leaders in our Operations division to better understand
• Committed to replacing our large fleet of diesel-powered manawhena.
forklifts with electric and sought a supplier partnership to • Each manufacturing site undertook a stakeholder
assist with this. identification and engagement planning exercise and
• More than doubled the movement of product via coastal established or enhanced their community liaison.
shipping, taking trucks off the road and reducing diesel
• Staff are granted one day a year to assist a community or
emissions.
environmental group or cause of their choice. This year
• Geraldine primary crusher was replaced to meet increased 442 hours of staff time was spent Lending a Hand.
demand at lower cost and with reduced fuel use and emissions.
• The despatch area at McNab Store was fully enclosed to
• Undertook Supreme Quarry electrical upgrade leading to reduce fugitive dust and improve processing capability.
increased efficiency and automation.
• Investment in dust control continued with new dust curtains
• Dunedin Dynamic Separator Mill project improved processing at Seadown and New Plymouth stores.
capability and reduced operational costs.
• Gisborne Store was re-clad as part of the ten-year asbestos
• Began a research collaboration investigating plant availability removal programme being progressively implemented
of nitrogen and will complete the Primary Growth Partnership across the building stock to improve safety. To date we have
to transform aerial spreading with computer-aided accuracy
spent $14.2 million out of a planned $24m.
(see also SDG 6).
• Continued investment and development of coated nitrogen
products to ultimately reduce greenhouse gas volatilisation.
• Developed and trialled a sustainability assessment tool for
capital investments.
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS — Continued
Responsible Consumption Climate Action
Sustainable procurement and responsible waste disposal Climate change mitigation, adaptation and capacity building
• The new Supplier Sustainability Survey was completed by • Implemented carbon reduction roadmaps for the most
37 key suppliers with an average score of 80% and we carbon intensive parts of the business.
began evaluating suppliers on sustainability performance • Workshops assessed our level of physical and transitional
and recognising and supporting their improvements. climate risk and to better understand contributing factors
• Through our own takeback scheme we recovered 114.6 and mitigation measures.
tonnes of used packaging for recycling. We also continue to • Training on climate change reached 204 staff and our
look for reduction and reuse options, recognising that staff-wide carbon footprint webinar was attended by 150.
recycling alone does not achieve circular economy.
• Submitted to the Climate Change Commission to support
• Continued support of AgRecovery events for recovering and enhance the direction New Zealand takes in response to
plastic from farms for recycling, recovering an additional climate change.
6,200kg of bulk fertiliser bags.
• Collaborated with leading businesses on our collective
• Contributed to the industry advisory group working with response to climate change and sustainability through
the Ministry for the Environment on a comprehensive membership of the Sustainable Business Council, Climate
regulated product stewardship scheme to manage farm Leaders Coalition, Aotearoa Circle and the International
plastic responsibly. Fertiliser Association Sustainability Working Group.
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS — Continued
Life on Land
Preserving biodiversity
• Using our newest technology for aerial fertiliser application,
47,655 hectares of sensitive areas were able to be excluded.
• All superphosphate products leaving the factory were
below the industry-set limit of 280mg cadmium per
kg to prevent increased heavy metals in soil.
• Financial and in-kind support was provided to community
groups looking to achieve habitat restoration and other
biodiversity outcomes.
• 7,317 hours of training undertaken by on farm teams, largely
on environmental planning and best practice.
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