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ICL manufactures products on four continents and markets them to thousands of customers in more than 180 countries, meeting the evolving needs of millions of people around the globe. To accomplish this, the Company uses various natural resources such as raw materials, energy, and water. ICL strives to minimize the environmental impact of its operations. The Company has a systematic approach to managing environmental issues that includes: raising awareness, allocating significant resources to mitigate risks, acting responsibly and implementing best practices. Throughout the Company there is a continuous effort to reduce environmental impact and aim for excellence and innovation. ESG KPIs are an integral part of the performance evaluation of managers at all levels and are linked to executives’ financial incentives.
ICL follows global CDP and GRI frameworks in its reporting. It has also begun to report on SASB indicators as well as TCFD indicators. ICL incorporates SDGs in defining its material priorities.
As part of ICL’s strategy, a gap analysis for the Company’s ESG performance and stakeholders materiality analysis is conducted on an annual basis and reviewed by it’s executives. Based on this analysis the Company’s business units create an action plan.
ICL, a specialty mineral company, is aware of the potential impact of its operations and products. Environmental, safety, health and security performance are at the core of ICL’s efforts. Thus, the Company invests in environmental protection, preventing pollution and increasing the efficiency of its production facilities. As part of its sustainability vision for 2030, ICL has established both short and long-term goals for its sustainable performance.
Significant efforts and resources are invested to comply with regulations and corporate goals,exercising a proactive approach.
Mission Statement: ICL is committed to eliminating EHS&S incidents and complying with all regulatory requirements by taking a proactive approach that empowers employees to identify at-risk conditions and behaviors and learn from them to minimize risk.
Despite ICL's continued efforts to reduce work accidents at its sites, in June 2020 (June 4 and 25) two fatal events occurred involving contractor workers at ICL Iberpotash’s Vilafruns mine in Spain.
In response to the events, mining activities at this site were halted ahead of schedule. These fatal events are currently under investigation. A deep internal learning process was performed, and work plans were updated.
ICL Iberia (Iberpotash) is taking further corrective actions, implementing a proactive approach, including enhanced safety training of relevant personnel; preparing emergency reaction measures for safe production; and enhanced hazard recognition and prevention practices.
Some of ICL’s products are potentially harmful to the environment and the health and safety of the public as a result of the effluents, air emissions and waste that are generated during their production, as well as at other stages of the products’ life cycle.
As part of its ICL EHS&S policy, the Company engages in initiatives aimed at reducing its environmental impact. The efforts are taken in multiple dimensions, such as the responsible use of natural resources, increasing circularity and energy efficiency, reducing air pollution and waste, and responsible use and ‘end of life’ of ICL products. The Company also acts to promote an ongoing, honest and transparent dialogue with its stakeholders.
Environmental, safety, health and security performance are at the core of ICL’s values
ICL’s environmental guidelines take a proactive approach, characterized by the voluntary adoption of advanced international environmental management principles and programs, e.g. participation in the Responsible Care program administered by the International Council for Chemicals Association (ICCA) and founded on principles of
Product Stewardship. ICL incorporates the ‘precautionary principle’ in its operations and in its development and sales of the Company’s products.
88% of ICL’s global production sites are certified as ISO 14001 or an equivalent standard for environmental management systems.
15 major energy-consuming ICL sites have implemented ISO 50001 for energy management. These constitute 35% of all global production sites that account for most of ICL’s energy consumption. In addition, ICL has also implemented internal standards and management systems for environmental responsibility and performance.
ICL’s direct impact is from its operations. The reported performance data includes all production sites with operational control. Information regarding biodiversity and mining is relevant to five of ICL’s mining sites. Read more on ICL’s products and solutions. This management approach is relevant to all material environmental topics. In areas where there is more relevant information, specific to a given material topic, additional details can be found in that topic section within this report.
As part of ICL’s strategy for a sustainable future and high level ESG performance, ICL has created an ESM project with several ambitious goals:
To achieve these goals ICL has implemented globally leading data management solutions. ESM includes Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), which allows ICL to track and analyze EHSQ&S events, manage sustainability performance, remain in compliance, perform audits and more. The solutions have been implemented in all of ICL’s production sites and in several of ICL’s major logistics companies and offices worldwide, and includes thousands of active users.
