By focusing on our major impacts, we will prevent millions of metric tons of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere.

Read more about our progress on our Climate Targets

The case for action

Tackling climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions is one of the greatest, most urgent challenges facing society. Our science-based climate target¹⁾ is aligned with the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement on climate change, which aims to keep global temperature rise well below 2°C this century to avoid the most severe impacts from climate change.

Our targets

As part of our Better Living Program objective to make our business circular and climate neutral, we launched a new climate target during the year. It aims for Climate neutral operations by 2030 (scope 1 and 2 emissions).

In addition, our President and CEO Jonas Samuelson, signed the United Nations Global Compact - Business Ambition for 1.5° C in 2019. Electrolux aims for Climate neutral value chain by 2050.

These new longer-term targets complement our science-based target¹⁾ to reduce our scope 1 and 2 emissions by 80% between 2015 and 2025, which also aims to reduce the absolute scope 3 emissions from the use of our sold products by 25% during the same time frame. The scope 3 target covers two thirds of all products sold by Electrolux.

We also follow up our own-developed target to halve our 2005 emissions by 2020.

Our climate neutrality roadmap

^{1) Our science-based targets are based on our 2015 emissions, which amounted to 81,700,000 metric tons CO₂. The Science Based Target initiative is a global initiative headed by CDP, the UN Global Compact (UNGC), the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF). The initiative enables companies to set climate targets consistent with the level of de-carbonization required to limit global warming to less than 2°C, compared with pre-industrial temperatures.}

What are scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions?

We define scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions as follows:

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

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 Electrolux products.

Emission reduction actions

We are reducing CO₂ emissions from our own manufacturing facilities, product transport, and the energy consumed during their use. But as product energy use is responsible for over 80% of our climate impact, product efficiency is where we can make our greatest contribution to tackling climate change.

We can also make a difference by eliminating the use of hydro fluorocarbons (HFCs) in refrigerators, air conditioners and products with heat pumps. HFCs are gases with a high global warming potential that are still used in some countries due to regulatory or market barriers to alternative solutions.

In 2019, Electrolux joined the Cool Coalition initiative, which encourages companies to make their own bold commitments to reduce emissions in the cooling sector. Electrolux has committed to a plan to accelerate finding alternative refrigerants with less Global Warming Potential in refrigerators, freezers and air conditioning units.