Sidenor 2022 Sustainability Report

59 Organization environmental footprint In 2021, Sidenor concentrated its efforts on collecting data for the calculation of scope III of the organization’s environmental footprint, a process that we concluded in 2022. The carbon footprint result as well as the entire calculation process are verified each year by an independent third party. In November 2022, we achieved the successful verification by an independent third party of the 2021 organization footprint according to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol 2022 2021 Scope 1: Direct GHG emissions: (t CO 2 e) 160,742 152,455 Scope 2: Indirect GHG emissions from imported energy: (t CO 2 e) 69,007 152,203 Scope 3: Other GHG emissions (t CO 2 e) 637,203 609,089 Scope 3 encompasses the GHG emissions corresponding to: 3.1 Purchase of goods and services 3.2 Capital goods 3.3 Combustion and energy-related activities (market based) 3.3 Combustion and energy-related activities (location based) 3.4 Upstream transport and distribution 3.5 Waste 3.6 Corporate trips 3.7 Trips on the way to and from work 3.9 Downstream transport and distribution 3.10 Transformation of sold products 3.12 Sold products end of life