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Climate Change Position Statement

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have changed the composition of our atmosphere and climate. The changing climate affects society and ecosystems in various ways. Industrialized food systems emit GHGs as large amounts of energy are required to produce fertilizers, and to process, package, transport, and preserve food.

This Climate Change Position Statement applies to Almarai Company (“Almarai”), a listed joint stock company, incorporated and existing under the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Almarai), and any of is Controlled entities (each such entity, including Almarai, an Almarai Entity).

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have changed the composition of our atmosphere and climate. The changing climate affects society and ecosystems in various ways. Industrialized food systems emit GHGs as large amounts of energy are required to produce fertilizers, and to process, package, transport, and preserve food.

The purpose of this position statement is for Almarai to implement more sustainable solutions to reduce our emissions. To do so, our strategies focus on four main themes:

Energy efficiency

Identifying and acting on opportunities to manage energy use and improve energy efficiency across our operations and transport, networks.

Clean energy

Identifying and acting on opportunities to implement clean energy solutions. Our current focus is on building onsite solar power generation systems across our operations.

Energy culture

Identifying and acting on opportunities to build awareness across our business to drive positive behavioral change.

Refrigeration

Identifying and acting on opportunities to switch our refrigeration systems to CFC (chlorofluorocarbons)-free alternatives. Continuing to deploy refrigerants with lower global warming potentials.

Almarai will communicate the Climate Change Position Statement to all its employees and interested parties, and ensure it is freely available to the wider community. This position statement will be reviewed and updated as required.

This position statement, supported by the QRHSS&S Division, will be applied to all business operations and services carried out by Almarai.

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