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Achieve more with less

 

Progress on our promise

Electrolux will continue to reduce its environmental footprint by shifting to renewables, and optimizing the use of energy and other resources throughout its operations.

The roadmap to 2020 Next steps
Improve the energy efficiency of manufacturing sites and warehouses by 20% by 2020 (baseline 2015), engaging all facilities worldwide. 
  • Continue to drive energy efficiency in our operations through our Green Spirit certification process.

    Replace inefficient equipment with more efficient models.

    Improve and optimize the use of existing manufacturing equipment.
Reduce water consumption in manufacturing by 5% every year in areas of water stress, until the site has reached optimal levels of efficiency.
  • Continue to drive water management and replace inefficient equipment and processes with more efficient models.
Attain energy-management certification for our operations around the world.
  • Attain global certification for energy management according to ISO50001 by 2018.
Increase the proportion of renewable energy for our operations to 50% by 2020.
  • As of 2016, 13 manufacturing sites in Europe switched to renewable electricity. Evaluate and set a plan for the other regions.
Implement Zero Landfill program at all manufacturing sites by 2020.
  • Expand current pilot program from 4 to 10 factories in total.

​​ On track  

​​ Additional effort is required  

​​ Off track  

​​ Work has not yet begun  

 

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World climate leader

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Our climate targets

G4-EN15 Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight

G4-EN16 Indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight

Please, see About this report for defintions on emission factors.

 

OPERATIONAL RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Index
Energy per standard unit
Energy consumption
CO2 emissions
Water consumption
  2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Energy per standard unit 100 97 96 90 88
Energy consumption 100 99 96 92 88
CO<sub>2</sub> emissions 100 101 99 99 75
Water consumption 100 86 78 72 76

G4-EN18 Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity

Scope 11) and Scope 2 emissions per net sales (co2 tonnes/SEKm)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  2005   2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity 8.55687943   6.187626272 6.012940538 5.519636174 5.14647547 4.1

1) Fugitive emissions included. These are derived from use of HFC gases for cooling in facilities, refrigerants in products and as foaming gases.

Since 2005, our performance has resulted in decoupling revenue growth from CO2 emissions. We have achieved a savings of 293,000 tons of CO2 equivalent in operations between 2005 and 2016, while the Group’s revenue has increased by 20%.