Iberdrola SA

Company Information

Iberdrola is a producer of wind power and an electricity utilities company. It is publicly listed and headquartered in Bilbao, Spain. In 2021, the company reported a total of 39,955 employees and a sales revenue of 39.1 billion Euro.*

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Our progress towards decarbonization

GHG Emissions

North Star

• Iberdrola SA has a target to reduce absolute scopes 1, 2 and 3 CO2e emissions 43% by 2030 from a base year of 2017

Pledge: Have an officially validated short-medium term science-based GHG emissions reduction targets aligned with a 1.5°C scenario (scope 1+2) in line with the SBTi Criteria and Recommendations

MRV: Pact MRV in place

Status date: Submitted (29/07/2022)

Data source: CDP Climate Change 2022

How we want to achieve this – our roadmap

• Join the Business Ambition for 1.5°C and publicly commit to have a long-term science-based target to reach net-zero value chain GHGs emissions by no later than 2050 in line with the SBTi Net-Zero Standard 
• Have an internal price on carbon 
• Have an initiative in place to drive GHG emissions reduction through energy efficiency in production processes
• Have an initiative in place to drive GHG emissions reduction through low-carbon energy consumption
• Have an initiative in place to drive GHG emissions reduction through low-carbon energy generation
• Have an initiative in place to drive transport-related GHG emissions reduction targeting employee commuting
• Have scope 1+2+3 GHG emissions verified through a third party verification or assurance process 

MRV: Pact MRV in place

Status date: Submitted (29/07/2022)

Data source: CDP Climate Change 2022

Water

Our actions – the Pathway

• Iberdrola SA have a target to reduce water withdrawals per revenue by 2030 from a base year of 2019 starting in 2019
• Publicly disclose data on water-related impact to investors through a public platform
• Have board-level oversight of water issues
• Integrate water-related issues into the company's financial planning
• Integrate water-related issues into the company's long-term business objectives
• Integrate water-related issues into the company's strategy to achieve long-term business objectives
• Regularly monitor and measure key water security metrics at least for 75% of the company's facilities

MRV: Pact MRV in place

Status date: Submitted (29/07/2022)

Data source: CDP Water 2022

Governance & Strategy

North Star

• Iberdrola SA have a publicly available 1.5°C aligned low-carbon transition plan

MRV: Pact MRV in place

Status date: Submitted (29/07/2022)

Data source: CDP Climate Change 2022

How we want to achieve this – our roadmap

• Publicly disclose climate and environmental data to investors and customers through a public platform
• Have board-level oversight of climate-related issues
• Have a process for identifying, assessing, and responding to climate-related risks and opportunities
• Have an employee engagement strategy to support and contribute to achieving the company's climate and environmental goals

MRV: Pact MRV in place

Status date: Submitted (29/07/2022)

Data source: CDP Climate Change 2022

Value chain engagement

North Star

• Iberdrola SA has a supplier engagement target to get 100.0% of its suppliers by procurement spend to set a science-based emission reduction target

Pledge: Have a supplier engagement target in order to reduce scope 3 GHG emissions, to get a share of our suppliers by procurement spend set science-based GHG emissions reduction targets in line with the SBTi Criteria and Recommendations

MRV: Pact MRV in place

Status date: Submitted (29/07/2022)

Data source: CDP Climate Change 2022

How we want to achieve this – our roadmap

• Have a supplier engagement strategy designed to offer financial incentives for suppliers who reduce upstream GHG emissions (Scope 3)
• Have an ongoing and transparent dialogue with our value chain around climate-related issues
• Have a supplier/customer engagement strategy to drive best practices in tackling environmental and climate-related issues

MRV: Pact MRV in place

Status date: Submitted (29/07/2022)

Data source: CDP Climate Change 2022