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A NET ZERO AMBITION
Future Sasol: Enabling activities (CONTINUED)
Scope 3
Our
approach
Sasol’s scope 3 reduction approach takes into account
the need to balance short and medium term action
(improving baseline accounting and identifying reduction
opportunities) with long-term portfolio changes to
reduce emissions towards a low-carbon future. We are
progressing well and continue to refine our baseline and
develop a deeper understanding of these emissions.
Opportunities for reductions are emerging and being
implemented.
Our scope 3 approach
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Improving baseline accuracy
Short to medium term priority (continuous process)
• Relevant, unreported categories are prioritised for detailed investigation.
• Remaining categories are subject to continuous improvement by our internal
assurance team.
Three additional categories have been reported in 2021:
Category 8, 9 and 15
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Developing interventions
Short to medium term priority (continuous process)
• Emission reduction interventions identified, costed and prioritised.
Our Energy Business has a 2030 absolute scope 3 target, aiming for a 20% reduction, off a 2019 baseline for Category 11: Use of sold Energy
products. Targeted interventions are focused on asset optimisation, responsibly scaling down coal exports and transitioning to sustainable fuels due
to changing market demand for fossil fuels. Our Chemicals Business is also undertaking baseline development of Category 12: End-of-life treatment
of sold chemical products. Depending on the outcome of this work, we will consider whether a target is required for this category.
Our scope 3 emissions1 and accounting maturity
Category
2020 (tCO2)
5 432 140
5 978 086
2019 (tCO2)
2018 (tCO2)
5 732 504
4 531 947
Purchased Goods and Services
2:
Capital Goods
3:
Fuel- and Energy-Related Activities2
240 993
285 641
156 747
9 846
4:
Upstream Transportation
478 974
449 465
533 494
567 300
5:
Waste Generated in Operations2
70 159
78 608
87 390
54 821
Shifting portfolio towards lower-carbon feedstocks and products
6:
Business Travel
600
4 105
10 371
7 733
Long term priority
7:
Employee Commuting
32 584
50 471
36 096
36 193
8:
Upstream Leased Assets
4 785
4 906
253 280
211 901
• Likely to only yield incremental emission savings outside of portfolio changes.
Three interventions were investigated:
Crude oil sourcing
Asset and product optimisation
Shifting from road to rail
• Most relevant categories ie Category 1 and 11, require portfolio level changes.
• Chemicals: focus is on enabling circularity for customers and progressively becoming a
consumer of circular feedstocks (eg biomass and waste residues).
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Downstream Transportation
10:
Processing of Sold Products
Scope 3 model was developed to quantify ‘shift’ impacts
11:
Use of Sold Products2
12:
End-of-Life Treatment of Sold Products
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Downstream Leased Assets
14:
Franchises
15:
Investments
Chemicals scope 3 position paper under development
Partnerships
Short, medium and long term priority (continuous process)
• On-boarding of cross functional internal team.
• Potential customer and supplier partnership for improved rail transport reporting.
Both internal (cross functional) and external partnerships are required along the entire
value chain to improve assumptions in calculations and data accuracy, as well as develop
mutually beneficial emission-reduction opportunities.
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201 756
29 661 747
Not measured
35 618 580
32 092 182
Baseline under development
N/A
148 402
142 789
3 244
2 903
144 131
984 816
38 470 977
1. Increases and decreases in emissions are indicated on pages 32-33.
2. Has been subjected to external assurance.
Not measured
N/A
141 412
TOTAL
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Accounting
Accuracy
N/A
• Energy: focus is on delivering a low-carbon energy portfolio to customers and
progressively becoming a consumer of circular feedstocks (eg biomass and recycled CO2).
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2021 (tCO2)
1:
• Prioritisation carried out according to materiality and stakeholder pressure.
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Our largest scope 3 emissions originate from the Energy Business's sold products (Category 11) localised mainly in South Africa. Reducing
these emissions require fundamental changes to our business model, which we are undertaking in line with our ambition to be at Net Zero emissions
by 2050. These changes will mainly be effected post 2030 when our hydrogen aspirations start delivering. We are exploring the benefits of a scope 3
intensity target to reflect changes in our corporate portfolio as we integrate production of sustainable fuels and chemicals. More details on this will
be communicated in future reports.
737 234
37 606 295
Highly Certain
1 207 542
43 736 126
Moderate Certainty
Not measured
42 253 442
Low Certainty
Unknown
Not applicable