This framework integrates ESG principles with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and assesses the company’s alignment according to ISO standards.”

SOP supports its clients in improving production while reducing costs for fertilization, raw materials, and energy, thereby enhancing the profitability of agricultural businesses. SOP products can be used anywhere in the world, including arid and disadvantaged areas, increasing productivity and strengthening resilience (‘adaptation’) to climate change.

SDG 2. END HUNGER

The use of SOP products helps improve agricultural production (milk, meat, cereals, corn, rice, etc.), providing more and better-quality food while enhancing resilience (‘adaptation’) to climate change.

SDG 3. IMPROVE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

The use of SOP products enables a significant reduction in ammonia emissions (a precursor of PM2.5) from fields, barns, and slurry. This contributes to improving air quality in the surrounding environment.

SDG 4. QUALITY EDUCATION

Our clients are committed to sharing the sustainable practices they adopt, supported by the use of SOP products, through training for their staff, on-site visits, online testimonials, and conferences.

SDG 5. GENDER EQUALITY

By reducing odors and ammonia, SOP products help create a better working environment for all operators. They also reduce or eliminate the use of chemical fertilizers, the handling of which is physically demanding, particularly for women and girls. In addition, in many farms women and girls are often responsible for calves; lowering ammonia levels in calf barns contributes to improved working conditions.

SDG 6. CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION

SOP products reduce the amount of nitrates from slurry, the use of fertilizers, and the need for antibiotics in livestock farming, which can contaminate groundwater.

SDG 7. SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

SOP products improve the efficiency of digesters in generating biogas from waste matrices for the production of electricity. By enhancing slurry fluidity, they reduce or eliminate the need for agitation and the associated energy consumption. The reduction or elimination of chemical fertilizers leads to energy savings in their application in the fields, as well as a reduction or elimination of their life cycle impact (LCA).

SDG 8. DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

SOP products help reduce costs for pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, and energy, while making production processes more efficient and improving business profitability. By lowering odor and ammonia emissions in barns and during slurry application, operators can live and work in significantly better conditions. Moreover, the positive ROI achievable with SOP, both in livestock farming and crop production, allows part of the profits to be reinvested in improving employee salaries.

SDG 9. INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Farms already invest significantly in improving communication routes between barns and fields; the reduction of ammonia in barns, thanks to the use of SOP products, leads to less degradation of livestock facilities. By becoming sustainable companies, through compliance with the SDGs and, in particular, by mitigating greenhouse gases and adapting to climate change with the support of SOP products, farmers and breeders can benefit from improved financial ratings, gain access to green finance, and grow while investing in innovation.

SDG 10. REDUCED INEQUALITIES

Farms are places of inclusion, employing workers from all over the world. The reduction of odors and ammonia in barns creates a better working environment for staff engaged in any activity. The use of SOP products improves plant resilience and adaptability to climate change, even in the most challenging areas, thus maintaining production competitiveness. By complying with the SDGs, access to public development aid and related financial flows becomes possible and more achievable.

SDG 11. SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES

SOP products help reduce odors and ammonia from barns and slurry, greatly limiting the impact of farming activities on surrounding communities, contributing to better air quality, and preventing the devaluation of real estate. Improved conditions in livestock farming (odors) and crop production (chemical substances) can foster more positive economic, social, and environmental relations between urban, peri-urban, and rural areas.

SDG 12. RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION

SOP products enable our clients to make production systems more efficient, reducing the use of chemical fertilizers in the field and increasing milk or meat output with the same feed consumption.

SDG 13. CLIMATE ACTION

The use of SOP products helps prevent the formation and reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from fields (mitigation), by lowering the use of chemical fertilizers; from barns, by mitigating animals’ enteric emissions; and from slurry, during storage and spreading.

SDG 14. LIFE BELOW WATER

The drastic reduction of ammonia emissions achieved with SOP products helps decrease the impact of farming activities on water acidification. Lower use of chemical fertilizers reduces the eutrophication of surface waters and, consequently, of seas (e.g., cyanobacteria in lakes and marine habitats).

SDG 15. LIFE ON LAND

The use of SOP products reduces ammonia emissions (mitigation) and the use of chemical fertilizers, thereby lowering the farm’s impact on soil, limiting acidification and nitrate pollution, promoting fertility, and enhancing adaptability to climate change (adaptation).

SDG 16. PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

The use of SOP products enables farmers and livestock producers to better comply with environmental laws for sustainable development. In addition, the reduction of odors and chemical fertilizers fosters social harmony with neighbors and local communities.

SDG 17. PARTNERSHIP

Our clients, supported by the use of SOP products, promote their sustainable practices with institutions, the media, and other stakeholders in the agri-food supply chain. Food producers and farmers and livestock producers who choose SOP products can build a virtuous supply chain and engage with institutions as part of the solution rather than as the source of the problem.