Companies perform an important role in the fight against climate change. Aware of this, Grupo SOS has developed sustainability strategy that will allow it to manage climate change by means of a challenge that offers opportunity for both development and business.

Strategy for reducing CO2 emissions

The Organization's strategy in sustainability and energy efficiency is differentiated in two areas: offices and production centers. It is applied in the action program SOS Acción CO2, which is deployed in concrete projects for each of the areas.

The success of the strategy is based on bringing it to the attention of the employees, and sensitizing them to it. They are, after all, the people most involved in each project.

• SOS Acción CO2 in factories
• SOS Action CO2 in offices

Total CO2 emissions

Total CO2 emissions, direct and indirect, by weight, were 3.76% less than in the reference year (2007) (taking into account the same factories), so the accumulation of 14,461 tons was avoided compared with that year.

Emission Rights

The cogeneration plant at Andújar (COANSA) falls within the legislative framework regulating business involving emissions established by the Kyoto Protocol. In the National Plan for the Allocation of Emission Rights for the period 2008-2012, a total of 230,633 rights of emission were granted for the activity of cogeneration. The manufacture of oils no longer falls within this framework.