Pioneer climate and nature action
This is the top of our strategy house. We will pioneer climate and nature action to become Lifetime Carbon Neutral and showcase sustainable buildings and communities.
Reduce our future carbon footprint
Our 2030 target is a 100% reduction of carbon footprint in our own operations
An ambitious but achievable carbon neutral target
“Achieving carbon neutrality in our own operations is an incredibly ambitious goal – made even more ambitious by the fact we’re striving to eliminate all carbon emissions by increased energy efficiency, shifting to 100% renewable power and replacing use of fossil fuels with renewable ones.”
Kim Jonas, Director, Global Energy & Climate
Partnership with Schneider Electric
Full speed on renewables to achieve our carbon neutrality target
The VELUX Group will switch to 100% renewable energy by 2023, and has partnered with Schneider Electric to achieve our carbon neutrality target.
We are developing a global decarbonisation programme with carbon neutral plans for each of the VELUX Group’s factory sites to successfully reduce their energy use and scale renewable capacity.
The carbon neutral action plans are being piloted at two of the company’s top energy-consuming plants.
Reduce our future product carbon footprint
Our 2030 target is a 50% reduction of carbon footprint from the value chain
"Scope 3 accounts for around 94% of our CO₂e emissions. That is why our scope 3 reduction target is important. Quite simply, if we do not succeed in this, we will not achieve our overall carbon reduction ambitions.”
David Collins, Director, Supplier Quality & ESG
Capture our historical carbon footprint
Our 2041 target is 4.5 million tonnes CO₂ capture through forest and biodiversity projects equal to our company’s carbon emissions (scope 1 and 2) from 1941 to 2041*.
In 2021, the focus of our 20-year partnership with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has been to continue establishing a robust portfolio of a total of five high-impact forest and biodiversity projects in some of the world’s most biodiverse landscapes. “We’ve worked hard with WWF to define how to go beyond our value chain and invest in robust nature-based solutions that benefit nature, people and the climate.” Caroline Hartoft-Nielsen, Partnership Manager, Group Sustainability
*The projects are designed to include a 25% buffer bringing the total potential capture to approximately 5.6 million tonnes CO₂.
The first of our forest conservation and restoration projects is underway in Uganda.
Spanning 28,000 hectares in the Albertine Rift in Uganda, a biodiversity hotspot with tropical moist forests boasting thousands of plant and animal species, the project will play a significant role in supporting the Ugandan government’s efforts to return its natural landscapes back to 1990 levels. The project is led by WWF-Uganda in partnership with Uganda’s National Forestry Authority (NFA).