This April 22 is celebrated on Earth Day, a date on which Heineken Spain reaffirms its commitment to the planet with a transparency exercise that reveals its latest achievements in terms of sustainability and responsibility, achieving a new milestone in emissions.
Your report Sustainability in figures 2024endorsed and certified by AENOR, shows significant progress in the Environmental impact reduction of the brewery, its support to the community and the promotion of responsible consumption.
Beers with renewable energy
After becoming the first brewer that elaborates its products only with Renewable electricity of solar origin In 2019, Heineken Spain has been working for years to generate all the energy it needs to function, both electric and thermal, of renewable sources.
As a result, 55% of the energy used in its factories It is already, and it is even more close to the ambition to make their beers and ciders with 100% renewable energies at the end of this year and in its entire value chain in 2040.
Five years before its global matrix
With more than 20 years of experience in Spain and an ambitious local roadmap, the brand brewery such as Heineken, Cruzcampo, Amstel or El Águila He has advanced much of his sustainability and responsibility objectives at 2025, five years before his global matrix.
And since 2022 has invested more than 40 million euros to this end, almost 10 of them in 2024to which more than 6 million euros are added to support the Valencian hospitality with the Fuerzabar movement.
“We are proud of the advances we have achieved in 2024but we know that there is still much to do. That is why we strive to go beyond what is expected of us, investing in innovation, supporting communities and promoting responsible consumption, ”explains Etienne Strijp, president of Heineken Spain
«2025 will be a key year to demonstrate itin which we are further accelerating our ambition to work with 100% renewable energy in our factories and make each of our beers a toast for a better world, ”says Strijp.
From the field to consumer
Heineken works throughout its value chain to minimize its environmental impact and maximize your contribution to society in all countries in which it is present.
Its ambitious reduction objectives have made it the first brewer to achieve the endorsement of Science Based Targets Initiative (Sbti) and the achievements have allowed him to be included again in the CDP list on climate change for the third consecutive year.
Heineken electric truckHalf emissions
In our country, his commitment to renewable energies and the implementation of innovative technologies have allowed him Reduce your CO₂E emissions in half production since 2018. But Heineken Spain’s commitment goes beyond its factories.
Therefore, Heineken works to reduce your emissions throughout the value chainfrom the field to the consumer, and has already reduced its carbon footprint of scope 1, 2 and 3 compared to 2018.
He Heineken objective in our country is to reach 30% at the end of this year and be Net Zero In 2040with solutions ranging from agriculture (responsible for 23%of its emissions), packaging (28%), and without forgetting the beer cooling systems of its hotel customers (26%).
The Quart de Poblet (Valencia) beer plant is the last one that has received the ‘Zero Waste’ verificationSustainable ingredients
With 92% of sustainable origin ingredients certified under Sai protocol and after launching The first low carbon fertilizers in the world -Impact zero-, developed next to Fertiberiathe brewer works with local farmers to guarantee a proximity supply and promote agricultural innovation.
In Heineken Spain distribution, its last mile logistics project with electric vehicles, which in 2024 has already reached six Spanish cities. And in hospitality, Heineken in Spain has put more than 300,000 eco -efficient cooling systems on the market to help bars and restaurants reduce their energy consumption and CO₂E emissions.
Circular beers
Aware of the importance of circularity to reduce its scope emissions 3, Heineken Spain has already certified all its factories as 0 waste to landfill, Valuring 99.7% of the waste generated to reuse them in their own processes or in other industries such as food and cattle feed.
Likewise, it already uses 94.4% of reusable containers In hospitality and, globally, new objectives have been marked for their containers, in addition to associating with the prestigious Ellen MacArthur Foundation to promote large -scale containers reuse practices. The impulse to the Reusable bottle in hospitality in Spainalready reaching 85% in 2024 (+3pp versus in the previous year).
Water restoration has allowed to retain and recover water in Doñana.Responsible Water Management
Likewise, in its ambition to manage water responsible, the brewery has reduced its consumption 43% since 2008reaching an average of 2.79 liters of water per liter of beer produced.
Two of its factories, in Seville and Jaén, They have already overcome even the global objective which has been marked in countries with water stress such as Spain, with a consumption of 2.6 l/ly 2.4 l/l respectively.
And thanks to the Doñana, Albufera and Jarama water restoration projects, the company returns to the river basins that nourish its factories, more water containing all beers and Ciders that elaborates every year. Compensation that in 2024 was more than 2.2 billion liters of water in total.
With hospitality and young talent
Through your Cruzcampo Foundationthe longest brewing foundation in our country and that this year celebrates its 30 anniversaryHeineken Spain invests in the formation of young people in the hospitality sector to boost their employability.
Among its initiatives, the scholarship program is highlighted Cruzcampo talent with a 90% labor insertion at the end of their preparation. In 2024, 370 students were formed. And the inauguration of Torre Cruzcampo to train more than 3,000 students in alliance with the Chamber of Seville.
Heineken Spain is also a ally of the hotel sectorto which an investment of more than 850 million euros has allocated since 2020. Especially in moments of adversity such as the Dana that hit Valencia, in which The company mobilized under the #Fuerzabar movement to help the hoteliers affected to recover.
Innovation as an evolution engine
He Sustainability Report 2024 also Highlights your responsibility strategy to make moderation fashionable and expand its leadership in the 0.0 segment.
Forty years after launching its first cross without, Heineken Spain Porfolio continues to grow with new options as the eagle without filtering 0.0, getting a 0.0 option in its four main brands.
