In 2020 BrewDog became the world’s first carbon-negative beer business and every year we publish an incredibly transparent report that dives into everything we are doing from a sustainability perspective as well as transparently share our full carbon numbers from across the business.

You can download the latest report here:
https://lnkd.in/ec2QB-JM

In terms of our sustainability journey, 2020 was about low-hanging fruit. We were cutting emissions where we’d previously overlooked our impact on the Planet. 2021 was about adopting a fresh attitude to emissions and looking at long-term investments that will have a more significant effect overall. 2022 was about implementing those projects and starting to generate results.

In 2020, we set a target to reduce our emissions per HL of beer by 35% by 2023 versus our 2019 baseline, and we are still striving towards that target. Our aims were ambitious (as they should be) and we’ve made huge investments over the past 3 years, delivering opportunities for us to recycle and reuse waste throughout our facility in Scotland.

Our beautiful Lost Forest in the heart of the Scottish highlands is now home to over 500,000 saplings as we deliver the UK’s most ambitious afforestation program. I was delighted to welcome our Equity Punk community to the Lost Forest last year to give them a chance to help plant native broadleaf trees and see their investment firsthand.

While we continue to invest in energy efficiency, recycling, waste reduction, and rationalisation of our operations to reduce emissions, we also look at how our business impacts our people and our community. We continue to give Hopstock shares to our full-time salaried employees annually and have now issued 2 years’ worth of stock to our incredible, hard-working teams. We’ve also invested significantly in mental health support and neurodiversity assessment funding.

We continue to work with one of the world’s leading sustainability experts Professor Mike Berners-Lee as our lead independent scientific advisor. Hopefully, we can show just what is possible when the most progressive businesses partner with leading scientists to try and drive the change our world so badly needs.

Thanks to everyone who enjoys our beer and in doing so supports all the work we are doing to help fight climate change.