WestRock Company

WestRock Company, a US-based Packing and Crating firm, reported its 2023 greenhouse gas emissions. The company's Scope 1 emissions were 5.997 billion kg CO2e, with Scope 2 market-based emissions at 2.327 billion kg CO2e and location-based emissions at 1.684 billion kg CO2e. Scope 3 emissions totalled 9.653 billion kg CO2e, including 2.780 billion kg CO2e from purchased goods and services, 2.291 billion kg CO2e from fuel and energy-related activities, 2.910 billion kg CO2e from end-of-life treatment of sold products, 1.073 billion kg CO2e from upstream transportation and distribution, 430.387 million kg CO2e from processing of sold products, and 96.499 million kg CO2e from capital goods.

WestRock Company has established several climate commitments. It aims to reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 27.5% by 2030 from a 2019 base year. Additionally, the company is committed to reducing absolute Scope 3 GHG emissions from purchased goods and services, fuel and energy activities, upstream and downstream transportation and distribution, and end-of-life treatment of sold products by 27.5% by 2030 from a 2019 base year. An earlier goal was set in 2015 to reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions per tonne of production by 20% between 2015 and 2025. More recent targets, cascaded from its parent company Smurfit Westrock Plc, indicate a commitment to reduce Scope 1 emissions by 30% from a 2020 baseline by 2030 and Scope 2 emissions by 30% from a 2020 baseline by 2030. Smurfit Westrock Plc also aims to reduce its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions to near zero by the middle of this decade.