Net-zero target submitted to the SBTi
“In view of the latest forecasts issued by climate researchers, each and every one of us needs to know that our planet has reached a dangerous turning point,” explains Krones’ CEO Christoph Klenk. “As far as climate change is concerned, all of us – businesses, politicians, individuals – are in this together. Even now, it is still possible to protect the conditions necessary to ensure humankind’s continued existence, and we must therefore take the chance while we still can.”
Following the standard of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the Krones Group intends to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent along the entire value chain (Scopes 1 to 3) and neutralise the remaining ten per cent by 2040. 2019 is the base year for that and also for the near-term targets already validated by the SBTi. Krones submitted its net-zero target to the Science Based Targets initiative in early April, and the Krones sustainability team expects final validation to be issued by autumn this year.
More stringent reduction target by 2030
“Our decision represents the end of a comprehensive review of all the sustainability targets we’d set ourselves. This revealed that we also have to specify more stringent targets for the medium term up to 2030,” explains Martina Birk, Head of Sustainability at Krones. That applies particularly to the emissions in the upstream and downstream supply chains (Scope 3). The reduction target specified in our previous climate strategy was 25 per cent compared to the base year 2019, however it has now been raised to 30 per cent. For Scopes 1 and 2 (covering in-house emissions), the 80-per-cent reduction target remains unchanged.
