During last three years, India’s leading apparel exporter Shahi Exports has mitigated 340,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide by using non-fossil-fuel-based electricity in its factories and offices. The company has achieved this through its solar parks.
Shahi Exports shared this on its social media platform.
“Reducing our carbon footprint is essential to building a sustainable and pliant supply chain. We align our goals to our customers to help achieve their goals. Walmart, our customer, entitled Shahi with the “Giga Guru” status under their project Gigaton, for disclosing our emissions reduction goals, thus contributing to their initiative to reduce emissions in the global value chain by 1 billion metric tonnes – a gigaton – by 2030,” the company said in its post.
The company has two solar power plants of 32 MW and 52 MW capacities in Bellary and Bidar districts of Karnataka, respectively. Additionally, the company also has an 8.57 MW wind energy plant in Maharashtra.
Combining energy generation through process steam turbines, wind and solar plants, 77 per cent of electrical energy consumption across the company was carbon-neutral.
It is noteworthy that according to UNEP and the Paris Agreement, mitigation of climate change involves reducing or preventing greenhouse gas emissions. With advancing technologies, emissions from processes, business operations and human activities are no longer the default outcome – emissions can be avoided while business thrives.
