Environmental Management 

To safeguard environmental well-being, and achieve the commitment to operate on a principle of sustainable business operations, which takes social and environmental responsibility into consideration throughout the supply chain, BJC is guided by the corporatewide Environmental Policy, which continiously strives to identify and develop new initiatives to minimise negative operational impacts on surorunding environment and communities, and seeks to foster poitive impacts on climate change, society and the environment. The policy encourages BJC to integrate and comply with environmental management standard in accordance with applicable international and domestic standards, laws, and regulations as follow, 

• Commitment to Environmental Protection: Refraining from choosing operation site in natural and environment conservation areas as required by law. The areas include World Heritage areas in accordance with the criteria of UNESCO, and protected areas according to The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) category 1-4.
• Commitment to Create Environmental Awareness: Encouraging awareness and understanding of environment for suppliers, trade partners, service providers, contractors, and business alliances, ensuring that their operations are compiled with environmental regulations and forests and biodiversity responsibility.
• Commitment to implement an environmental management system: BJC has utilized the criteria of ISO 14001 EMS throughout various supply chain, aiming to reduced environmental impact and improve environmental performances throughout the company.
• Commitment to use natural resources or energy more efficiently: Proceed on all business operation with environment and society responsibility by creating innovations to reduce negative impacts on the environment, promoting the sustainable use of natural resources and energy, protecting ecosystem and biodiversity
• Commitment to reduce emissions, releases and waste: Promoting proportion of alternative energy or renewable energy usage such as solar power to reduce the electricity consumption resulting from processes that use natural resources (non-renewable energy) or the process that produces greenhouse gases. 
• Commitment to monitor the company's environmental performance: Continuously support monitoring, assessment, and improvement of 1) environmental management 2) impacts on climate change 3) forests and biodiversity, in production processes, transportation and services.
• Commitment to report regularly on environmental issues: continuously assess, identify and report environmental issues material to BJC's operations, along with implemented mitigation strategies and programs to remediate negative effects. 
• Commitment to consult with stakeholders on environmental issues: Regularly consult with relevant stakeholders on environmental issues material to each stakeholder groups to identify the most effective solution for all entities. 

Environmental Risk Management

Through BJC's continued transition towards a sustainable operation, BJC have since incorporated environmental-related risk and opportunities, material environmental, social and governance (ESG) or sustainability risks assessment as one of the five key risk categories assessed quarterly, conducted with relevant internal and external business units. Results of the quarterly risk assessments are used by each relevant business units to develop and implement new ESG-oriented initiatives, developed to reduce negative impacts from operations. This also serves as a channel for BJC to train and inform employees about environmental management systems, increasing their capabilities and knowlegde about available environmental management systems. Furthermore, to safeguard that all information consolidated and disclosed publicly are accurate, relevant data are audited by applicable internal and external auditors at each facilities to assure that the data are accurate. Information consolidated through the internal and external audits are utilized by senior management of each respective business units to identify, develop and implement corrective and improvement strategies in order to stimulate continual improvements throughout the organization.  

BJC Sustainability Taxonomy 

A Taxonomy is a framework which provides a clear definitions of business activities, that can be considered benefitial to social and the environment. The framework may be legally enforced by relevant financial regulations within the company operating juridiction, or are voluntary framework the company has decided to comply with, enabling the company to set a common definition of economic activities which can be considered environmentally sustainable.   

Thailand taxonomy has recently released and is applicable for Energy and Transport sectors only; and the sustainable framework was not legally required in Thailand. Since BJC is in food and staple retailing sector, this question is not applicable to the company. Despite not having legal obligation, BJC volunteers to disclose taxonomy in accordance with Thailand taxonomy, to prepare for foreseeable enforcements in the future.In 2023, BJC Sustainability Taxonomy are shown in the table below;

Taxonomy Aggregate Mapping

Sustainability Day 2023

The annual sustainability day #2 was held on September 13, 2023 at BJC House, the headquarter of BJC Big C. The event was attended by members of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer and President of BJC Group, Mr. Aswin Techajareonvikul, Mr. Tevin Vongvanich along with other top senior executives and representatives of each supply chains and business units, and serves as a channel for representative of each supply chain to present, share, and discuss climate-related knowledge and implemented initiatives for the reporting year.

The event was well received by all participants, whom gain a better understanding and awareness about the need to transition BJC Group’s Operations towards sustainability, in addition to knowledge about implemented initiatives which contributed to BJC Group to be Net Zero by 2050.