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Resilience with Focus on Sustainability
Tata Chemicals is committed to integrating environmental, social and economic
principles into its businesses, which is central to improving the quality of life of the
communities it serves globally and enhancing long-term stakeholder value.
Embody principles of
product stewardship by
enhancing health, safety and
environmental impacts of
products and services across
their lifecycles.
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Conducting beneficial and
fair business practices to the
labour, human capital and to
the community.
People
Integrate sustainability
considerations into business
decisions and key work
Planet Profit processes, with the aim of
creating value, mitigating
future risks and maximising
opportunities.
REPORT REPORTS STATEMENTS
Resilience with Focus
on Sustainability
Our approach to Sustainability principles of human rights, fair labour and local citizens, decent work and
We are driven by the mission of serving relations, business integrity and anti- economic growth of the regions in which
society through science. Guided by this, corruption. Further, our actions are we operate, sustainable development of
we are continually innovating science-led directed towards meeting the sustainable cities and communities and strengthening
solutions that can contribute towards goals set by several global public partnerships to achieve it.
a better world and implementing best institutions, including the United Nation’s
practices in areas recognised as priorities. Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Given the depth of our sustainability
agenda, we have created a robust
Some of these UN SDGs are connected sustainability framework which enable
We follow UNGC's (United Nations Global to us and relevant to our strategy. These
Compact) 9 principles and responsible include: affordable and clean energy, us to create maximum impact in our
manufacturing practices at all of our responsible consumption and production, priority areas.
locations. We are also committed to the good health and well-being of employees
Our Future Sustainability Sustainability Governance and SHES (Safety, Health, Environment and
Projects Working Structure Sustainability) Committee and Risk
Management Committee review the
Commercialising RHA Green Technology Our corporate leadership directly involves
to manufacture highly dispersible silica itself in strategising sustainability efforts performance periodically and provide
their inputs. We have established several
Developing green surfactants and its implementation. They guide us policies, processes and procedures
technology in creating the roadmaps in alignment to drive economic, environmental
with the Science Based Targets Initiative, and social sustainability within the
Exploring value-added chemicals from Responsible Care, CORE and UN SDGs organisation. Foremost among all is our
the captured CO 2 as well as for addressing the highly Corporate Sustainability Policy, which is
Recovery of salts and minerals from material topics. an overarching policy that guides us at
waste streams all levels for promoting and supporting
Key sustainability performance indicators sustainability programmes.
are reviewed by the highest levels.
Our Sustainability Process
Sustainability strategy and Underpinned by our corporate Oversight and responsibility E-enablement to digitally
policies to guide areas strategy: undertaken by Safety, Health, track sustainability KPIs
of intervention, support Integrate sustainability Environment and Sustainability which is reviewed on an
best practices and drive across businesses and Risk Management annual basis
encouraging business Committees. They are
change Maintain robust systems and updated on performance
processes across all internally defined
Focus on operational sustainability-related
efficiencies and carbon material issues
abatement plans
Ambition Enablers KPIs Reporting
Reduce carbon emissions Green Chemistry focus % Renewable Energy Online data mechanism
by 30% by 2030 Contribution, Net Freshwater
Process optimisation Digitisation of
Become water neutral consumption, Waste operations
Cleaner fuel transition recycled, % of recycled
Zero waste to landfill materials, GHG emissions Global reporting
Energy efficiency
disclosures such as GRI,
IIRC, CDP, UNGC
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