As one of Turkey’s leading industrial enterprises, Kibar Holding released its 2019 Sustainability Report. Kibar Holding’s CEO Haluk Kayabaşı noted that the Group’s “2025 Sustainability Strategy” was shared with the public and stakeholders in the report, which examined the approach of Kibar Holding, operating in 7 sectors with 22 companies, to sustainability. Haluk Kayabaşı said that they were making greater and greater progress every year in line with the goal of leaving a more livable world to future generations.
This year, Kibar Holding released its 7th Sustainability Report. Noting that they implement a production model based on the circular economy, sustainability, and innovation in all their group companies, Kibar Holding’s CEO Haluk Kayabaşı said, “Sustainability has been at the top of Kibar Group’s agenda for a long time. We carry out all our production and management activities with a multi-dimensional approach to sustainability. As part of our efforts within this scope, we prepared the ‘2025 Sustainability Strategy’ of our Group in line with the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals and targets. This strategy, which we have defined with the ‘Kibar Group Sustainability Principles,’ will provide a basis for the model for transition to a low-carbon circular economy and guide the sustainability efforts in our 22 group companies.” CEO Kayabaşı stressed that the 2025 Sustainability Strategy strengthened Kibar Group’s vision of growing in line with sustainability principles.
Kibar Group 2025 Sustainability Strategy was defined with the Group’s sustainability principles and shaped with the sustainability priorities determined with a large number of participants. 40 targets have been set by analyzing the contributions that Kibar Group has made and will make to the targets that the UN Global Compact aims to achieve by 2030. The performance indicators for these 40 targets and the achievements in 2019 were also included in the Sustainability Report. The following targets stand out among the Group’s sustainability targets for 2025: achieving economic growth in line with sustainability principles, prioritizing the health of employees, increasing professional development and participation, maintaining the highest standards of product and service quality, completing digitalization processes, ensuring the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources, contributing to the efforts to combat climate change, and increasing the efforts within the scope of social responsibility projects.
“The energy density was reduced by 8.2%, and the water density was reduced by 4.8%.”
Stating that dozens of energy and water efficiency projects were launched in group companies this year, CEO Kayabaşı said, “The reduction of energy and water density is one of the major issues in the fight against climate change. In 2019, the energy density was reduced by 8.2% in Kibar Group companies, compared to the previous year, and the water density was reduced by 4.8%. The amount of recycled and reused water increased by 43.1% in 2019, compared to the previous year.”
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