EMISSIONS & ENERGY MANAGEMENT
COMMITTED TO OUR PEOPLE, CUSTOMERS AND COMMUNITY SINCE 1882.
Our ESG Steering Committee has established a Sustainability Framework to evaluate the organization’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and to proactively manage the associated risks and opportunities.
We invite you to review our report as we continue to create a more sustainable future for the communities where we live, work and play.
View our 2024 Report
SAWMILLS
To reduce the cost to manufacture lumber and reduce GHG emissions, we have invested $37 million in biomass boilers. These help us reduce our dependency on heavy oil. As of 2014, all J.D. Irving, Limited sawmills operate biomass boilers. The biomass used is mainly bark removed from logs consumed in the sawmill and is one way we ensure we use 100 per cent of every tree.
In addition to switching heavy oil to biomass, we have developed ways to use steam production to generate electricity.
TISSUE
Irving Tissue in Toronto, Ontario invested $60 million in to improve energy efficiency, reduce GHG emissions and modernize steam plant operations in 2020.
The investment in a fully integrated power co-generation plant uses a natural gas turbine to generate approximately half of the total electricity required by the plant. The waste heat generated from the turbine exhaust is then recovered and used in place of natural gas to dry our through-air dried tissue products. This reduces emissions from additional fuel for the tissue making process.
PULP & PAPER
In 2015, Canada committed to a 30 per cent reduction from 2005 levels by 2030 in GHG emissions ratified in the Paris Climate Accord in 2016. By 2010, the pulp and paper division met this reduction target (fully five years before it was established) and has continued to reduce its emissions since then. Currently the pulp and paper division has achieved a 54 per cent reduction from its 2005 levels.
CARBON NEUTRALITY
Our Forest Supply Chain has been verified carbon neutral under international standards since 2020. Overall, more carbon is absorbed and stored in our growing forests and forest products than is emitted to make and transport them.
We currently report our organizational carbon neutrality to the ISO14068:2023 standard.
We’ve been publishing our emissions and removals of the integrated Forest Supply Chain each year since 2020. This was first made public in 2022. The Supply Chain is committed to maintaining carbon neutrality annually. Additional information can be found here.
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