Climate Goals

The Group’s ambitious Climate Goals focus on its major impacts — to prevent millions of metric tons of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere.

The case for action

Tackling climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions is one of the most urgent challenges facing society. According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report (Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report[1]), human activity is already changing the climate in unprecedented ways. The report calls for strong and sustained action to limit climate change.

As product energy use is responsible for approximately 85% of Electrolux Group’s climate impact,[2] product efficiency is where the Group can make its greatest contribution to tackling climate change. Electrolux Group is also reducing CO2 emissions from its own manufacturing facilities as well as from transportation, materials used in products and business travel.

In addition, the Group can make a difference by eliminating the use of hydrofluoro-carbons (HFCs) in refrigerators, air conditioners and products with heat pumps. HFCs are gases with a high Global Warming Potential still used in some countries due to regulatory or technical barriers to alternative solutions.

The Group’s Climate Goals

Electrolux Group’s long-term ambition is to ensure that its entire value chain is net zero by 2050. This supports the United Nations Global Compact — Business Ambition for 1.5°C, which Electrolux Group President and CEO Jonas Samuelson has signed.

Having achieved its 2025 science-based climate target (SBT) to reduce 80% of absolute emissions in operations (scope 1 and 2) and 25% emissions reduction in the use phase of sold products (scope 3) with baseline 2015, three years ahead of plan (SBT 1), Electrolux Group had its second science-based target approved in 2023 (SBT 2).

SBT2-(1)

SBT 1 (base year 2015)
Scope 1, direct emissions
Scope 2, indirect emissions
Scope 3, other indirect emissions, including the category:

– Use of sold products

SBT 2 (base year 2021)
Scope 1, direct emissions
Scope 2, indirect emissions
Scope 3, other indirect emissions, including the categories:

– Purchased goods and services (new)
– Upstream transportation and distribution (new)
– Business travel (new)
– Use of sold products

The new target aims to reduce the company’s direct and indirect emissions resulting from its own operations (scope 1 and 2) by 85% and to reduce the Group’s absolute scope 3 emissions (use of sold products, materials, transport of products and business travel) by 42% between 2021 and 2030. The target is aligned with the Paris climate agreement, which aims to keep the global temperature rise within 1.5°C this century to avoid the most severe impacts from climate change.

This second science-based target sets out to achieve a 97% emission reduction in operations (scope 1 and 2) by 2030 compared with the baseline 2015. The Group aims at achieving zero emissions in operations by 2033.

See the Group’s latest Sustainability Report for its progress on its Climate Goals.

Initiatives to reduce emissions

Scope 1 and 2

  • Resource and energy-efficient manufacturing.
  • Increased share of renewable energy.
  • Phase-out of fossil fuels in operations.
  • Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) phase-out.

Scope 3

  • Supply chain initiatives i.e. collecting supplier CO2
  • Transition to greener logistics (biofuel and electrification).
  • Use of more sustainable materials, for example recycled plastics and green steel.
  • Increased product efficiency.
  • Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) phase-out.

What are scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions?

We use the definitions in line with GHG Protocol:

Scope 1 – emissions produced directly by an organization, for instance through the combustion of fuels, e.g. natural gas combustion for manufacturing processes.

Scope 2 – includes indirect emissions generated through the consumption of purchased energy, e.g. through electricity use.

Scope 3 – other indirect emissions due to the activities of an organization, but that are produced and controlled by a different emitter, e.g. emissions resulting from the use of a company’s products.

[1] Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-cycle/

[2] Based on global Electrolux Group lifecycle assessment data.

Read more about our progress on this Goal