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Salfacorp: Climate Risk Assessment, Biodiversity, Carbon Footprint, and Climate Strategy

During 2024 and 2025, SalfaCorp set out to assess both the impacts of climate change on its operations and the impacts the company generates on climate and nature. In this context, the work with ImplementaSur was structured around four complementary pillars: physical climate risk assessment, carbon footprint verification, biodiversity assessment, and the design of a climate strategy.

Service Climate Risk Assessment, Carbon Footprint Verification, Biodiversity Assessment, and Climate Strategy Design

Year 2024-2026

Approach and Project Implementation

In terms of physical climate risks, the project assessed SalfaCorp’s potential risk exposure across Chile, using the IPCC methodological framework based on the interaction between hazard, exposure, and vulnerability.

Simultaneously, ImplementaSur carried out the verification of SalfaCorp’s corporate carbon footprint for 2024, covering Scopes 1, 2, and 3.

In addition, a biodiversity assessment is being developed to better understand and manage the relationship between SalfaCorp’s different business units and nature, identifying dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities related to biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Building on these diagnostics and on progress related to water, energy, waste, and governance, a climate strategy is being designed to strengthen SalfaCorp’s long-term resilience.

National-level physical climate risk assessment
Identification of current and future climate hazards under climate change scenarios
Corporate carbon footprint verification (Scopes 1, 2, and 3)
Biodiversity assessment aligned with the TNFD LEAP approach
Analysis of the sector’s regulatory, market, and policy context
Climate strategy defining ambition, strategic guidelines, and priorities
Strategic Vision

The construction sector—responsible for a significant share of global CO₂ emissions—is highly relevant from an environmental and climate perspective, due in part to the intensive use of diesel-powered machinery and its enabling role for other emissions-intensive industries, such as steel and cement.

Construction is also a critical link in the value chains of other key sectors, including mining, where some actors already show high levels of maturity in climate action and are increasingly demanding stronger environmental standards from their suppliers. Supporting SalfaCorp in identifying risks, defining its climate ambition, and integrating biodiversity considerations allows ImplementaSur to work alongside a leading sector actor in a process that can help set benchmarks for the wider industry.

  • +10 material physical climate risks identified across company operations
  • Physical climate risk assessment based on IPCC methodology
  • Physical climate risk maps covering all provinces of Chile
  • Biodiversity assessment aligned with TNFD and the LEAP approach
  • Integration of TCFD and TNFD as the basis for climate and nature-related risk management
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