Advancing our sustainability efforts
Deeply embedded within our mission is the commitment to create social value alongside economic value, ensuring that all our stakeholders thrive, today and for generations to come.
Our People
It is our employees who materialize our goals, and we aspire to become the best place for them to work. We seek to promote their personal and professional development, with a work environment that inspires and motivates them. We see volunteerism as an integral component of personal development and citizenship. Total 2015 investment: Ps. 1.2 billion (US$ 67 million).
Our focus in 2015:
- Strengthen our Comprehensive Talent Management Model to institutionalize our people policies, processes and systems.
- Reinforce our work culture and leadership model; to do so we surveyed 35,000 employees and conducted interviews, workshops and focus groups across the organization to assess our organizational health and define initiatives for each business unit. We continued building a talent planning roadmap to meet future business requirements.
Occupational safety and health remain a permanent priority, with a decrease in indices of accidents and general diseases in 2015 compared to 2014
Our Planet
We seek to minimize the environmental impact of our operations through greater operating efficiency, with each business unit focusing on the environmental issues most material to its stakeholders and sustainability goals. Total 2015 investment: Ps. 800.2 million (US$ 46.5 million).
Our focus in 2015:
- Determine the priority of our actions to reduce impact at the business unit level. As a part of our Environmental Profit and Loss Analysis made in 2014 we will be working to map the environmental footprint of our clients and consumers. With these inputs we began to update our Environmental Strategy that will incorporate and amplify our relations beyond our operations.
- Expand the use of renewables for our energy requirements. A key corporate milestone this year was the start-up in Mexico of the Dominica II wind farm, advancing our commitment to incorporate renewable energy in our energy mix and contribute to the international effort to reduce CO2e emissions. Dominica II, Bii Nee Stiipa, Stiipa Naya and Ventika II- the latter is currently under construction and is projected to begin operations in 2016- will supply approximately 25% of the annual electricity needs to our facilities in Mexico, providing environmental benefits and reducing our energy costs.
In December we announced FEMSA´s adherence to COP 21, with a commitment to source 85% of our energy needs (based on 2010 levels) from clean energy by 2020.
