Environmental Performance
Greenhouse Gases
GHG emissions, both direct and indirect, can be categorised into three broad scopes:
Since last year, we report our emissions across all the three
scopes. Last year we also shifted
from reporting direct emissions as
per GRI Guidelines to GHG protocol (WRI/WBCSD guidelines). This
year we have continued with the
GHG protocol.		  
 
Mahindra Group - Absolute GHG Emissions
 
Note: The increase in absolute GHG emissions as compared to the previous year is due to increase in production/services and inclusion of MVML, MSat, AM-MSB in the reporting scope (refer table for enhanced production volumes shown earlier in this section). This is likely to happen year on year as we enhance the scope of our reporting. As a continual improvement, sectors have devised processes to capture Scope 3 consumption in detail. This has resulted in the increase of Scope emissions compared to previous year.
 
 
GHG Emissions segmented by source
in tCO2e
       
Scope 1 - Direct Emissions      
Diesel/HSD 25,924 46,766 56,920
LDO 2,676 1,958 3,358
Petrol 251 301 244
FO 47,058 50,779 59,838
LPG 19,951 25,458 12,631
Natural Gas+ CNG 8,972 10,085 7,544
Total 104,832 135,348 140,535
Scope 2 - Indirect Emissions      
Electricity purchased 405,518 464,041 609,844
Scope 3 - Indirect Emissions      
Total (Inbound logistics, Outbound logistics, Daily commutation,
Air Travel, Paper consumption) 		NIS 65,091 220,664
 
Note: NIS-Not in Scope. The emissions arising from CO2 fire extinguishers and Acetylene are insignificant and hence excluded from the reporting scope 2009-10 onwards. Kerosene is excluded since it is not used for energy generation.
The emission of petrol and LPG has come down due to less utilisation. The sectors use natural
gas, LPG and diesel for their Scope 1 emissions. The use of fuel mix depends upon the
availability of the fuel.
 
 
GHG Emissions Sector-wise Composition
in tCO2e
  Year 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
Scope Scope 1 Scope 2 Scope 1 Scope 2 Scope 3 Scope 1 Scope 2 Scope 3
AD 27,073 88,578 31,259 101,470 3,593 23,267 106,998 23,440
FD 12,717 51,374 18,416 59,162 28,886 16,788 71,492 54,373
Systech
(Except Gears)		 56,359 190,166 66,264 241,823 16,365 71,092 283,138 48,455
Systech (Gears) 671 3,288 514 3,242 272 294 3265 2,717
MIL 135 791 120 991 11,920 197 1,293 22,314
MTWL NIS NIS 1,561 4,034 1,960 2,978 5,741 4,605
MWC 236 1,986 323 2,968 288 323 4,683 50
MLDL 267 734 441 470 312 337 643 522
MLL 2,972 DNA 3,629 DNA 65 324 311 46
MHRIL 1,875 4,961 1,894 4,967 130 2,148 8,985 257
MMFSL DNA 1,513 DNA 890 DNA 7 928 477
Tech M 2,528 62,128 10,927 44,024 1,300 13,768 50,883 22,172
MVML NIS NIS NIS NIS NIS 4,869 22,773 227
MSat NIS NIS NIS NIS NIS 4,110 48,075 26,196
AM-MSB NIS NIS NIS NIS NIS 33 636 14,813
  Total 104,833 405,519 135,348 464,041 65,091 140,535 609,844 220,664
Note: NIS-Not in Scope, DNA-Data Not Available
 
 
Specific Emissions Highlights
 
1. AD, FD, Systech, MTWL, MLDL, MLL, MMFSL and Tech M have all recorded significant reduction in their specific combined Scope1 & Scope 2 emissions compared to
previous year.
2. MIL, MWC, MHRIL, MMFSL are the four sectors to have recorded an increase in their combined specific Scope 1 & Scope 2 emissions compared to previous year. The sectors have been alerted and a cause analysis will soon be instituted to arrest this increase.
 
Total Specific Emissions in tCO2e/unit of measure
  Sector 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 % reduction in 2010-11 over previous year
  Scope Scope 1+2 Scope 1+2 Scope 1+2 Scope 1+2
AD 0.60 0.52 0.46 12
FD 0.29 0.28 0.266 5
Systech (Except Gears) 1.24 1.29 1.26 2
Systech (Gears) 0.0019 0.0019 0.0013 32
MIL 0.0078 0.0079 0.0082 -4
MTWL NIS 0.08 0.049 39
MWC 1.17 1.49 2.27 -52
MLDL 0.00189 0.00187 0.00172 8
MLL 8.47 7.75 1.25 84
MHRIL 0.050 0.044 0.047 -7
MMFSL 3.552 2.231 3.127 -40
Tech M 2.70 1.90 1.80 5
 
Scope 1+2 specific GHG emission values for businesses covered for the first time
in this report i.e MVML, MSat and AM-MSB are 0.68, 2.60 & 0.08 tCO2e/unit of measure respectively.
All businesses have devised methodologies to capture and report Scope 3 emissions this year. For details, view the full report.
The reason for the increase in specific energy of sectors like MWC & MMFSL is also applicable for the increase in GHG emissions.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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