Bega Cheese Is Proactively Mitigating Environmental Risk

Bega Cheese's environmental, social and governance, or ESG, risks primarily relate to carbon emissions, waste generation, and resource use. The firm's value chain exposes the company to penalties from breaching environmental protection regulations, tarnished community relations or increased operating expenditure. Food manufacturing and distribution is energy-, water-, and waste-intensive, and sourcing raw materials is water-intensive and creates emissions such as methane and pesticides. We estimate at least 70% of Bega's energy consumption is from fossil fuel generation.