Carbon footprint analysis of Jaguar Land Rover Slovakia s.r.o.

Abstract

The automotive industry around the world, including Slovakia, is taking steps to decarbonize their production in accordance with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Decarbonizing the operations of automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) requires a holistic and systemic understanding of all environmentally relevant resource flows and the implementation of technologically and economically affordable solutions to achieve their targets for reducing the carbon footprint (CF). The CF analysis of Jaguar Land Rover Slovakia s.r.o. (JLR SK) was performed using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol). The purpose of the study was to improve the understanding of CF within the context of an OEM. The authors of this study are not aware, as of the date of publication, of any other comparable outputs from CF analyses by GHG Protocol in Slovakia, making this study the first of its kind. The results showed that the total CF was 1,143,205 tCO2e (tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent); of which SCOPE 1 emissions were 18,584 tCO2e (1.62%), SCOPE 2 emissions were 0.87 tCO2e (0.0001%) and SCOPE 3 emissions were 1,130,866 tCO2e (98.38%). Normalized CF values for all three SCOPES were 309.81 tCO2e per active employee; 3.08 kgCO2e per unit of turnover (EUR); and 14.95 tCO2e per vehicle produced. Current legislative standards and the active participation of OEMs can lead the automotive industry towards sustainability, including the achievement of net-zero carbon emissions despite rising consumption or production volume. With respect to some ambiguities in the initial data inventory, the presented analysis shows the first approach to identifying the CF of an automotive factory based on GHG Protocol in Slovakia.