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Environment
Climate change mitigation and decarbonization is a major challenge for the transport and logistics sector. Elanders wants to be a strategic business partner in the climate transition.
The goal for Elanders is to be a leader in global end-to-end solutions in supply chain management and to be the best at meeting customers’ demands on efficiency and delivery, while focusing on sustainability. With integrated and customized solutions for managing all or parts of their supply chains, the customers’ climate footprint is reduced through optimization of both material and product flows. Elanders can make visible the emissions in the customer’s value chain and at the same offer alternative solutions aimed at where the customer has its greatest impact and needs.
If you want to get into the details, see Elanders’ latest Annual and Sustainability Report.
Climate footprint and targets for emission reduction
As a supplier of end-to-end solutions, greenhouse gas emissions are generated throughout Elanders’ value chain. The greatest impact is in the sea, air and road transportation that Elanders handles for its customers. In Print & Packaging Solutions the largest climate impact is in the production of paper materials that are purchased.
In order to manage the company’s impact and related risks, the Group has adopted targets for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. To ensure that the targets conform to the latest climate science and goals in the Paris agreement, Elanders has joined the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Through this, Elanders has committed to zero emissions of greenhouse gases in its own operations and by its activities in the value chain no later than year 2050.
The first step is to reduce Group greenhouse gas emissions from Elanders own operations (scope 1 and 2) by 50 percent, and value chain emissions (scope 3) related to its own operations by 30 percent by 2030. The baseline for the targets in scope 1 and 2 is the year 2021. Base year data was recalculated in 2023. For the target in scope 3 the base year is 2022. Elanders is now working to ensure that each individual subsidiary has an action plan for emission reductions in line with the adopted targets.
Enabler for circular solutions
In recent years, Elanders has expanded within the business area Life Cycle Management, covering the circular concept Renewed Tech. Through a service-based and circular business model, the concept takes advantage of the potential found on the second-hand market for IT products. Elanders has scalable circular business models that can be extended to different customer segments. In dialogue with the customer, Elanders can become an enabler of circularity within the customer’s business model.
