What does “climate positive” mean?

Cutting total emissions across the value chain, while the business grows.

• Reducing GHG emissions by at least 15% across the whole IKEA value chain, in absolute terms, by 2030 (compared to 2016). Accounting for our estimated growth over the same period, this is equivalent to cutting the average climate footprint per product by 70%.
• Striving towards 100% renewable energy throughout the entire IKEA value chain.
• Becoming truly circular and designing products from the very beginning to be repurposed, repaired, reused, resold and recycled. This will reduce the need to extract and process materials – the biggest contributor to our footprint.

Storing carbon

• Developing and improving practices to store carbon through carbon sequestration within the IKEA value chain, for example through even better forest management

Going beyond the IKEA value chain

• Addressing a footprint larger than the IKEA value chain. For example, by working with our direct suppliers to reduce their total footprint across their entire factories, we will together address a footprint around four times larger than that caused by the manufacturing of IKEA products.
• Inspiring and supporting our customers, visitors and the many people in living a better life within the limits of the planet, including saving energy and generating renewable energy at home.

Taking the lead and engaging with others to inspire action towards a low-carbon society.

• Advocate policy changes to support the transition to a low-carbon society.
• Partnering and collaborating with peers, governments, NGOs, and others to tackle climate change.

The IKEA climate footprint is estimated to be 26.9 million tonnes CO2e8 – accounting for 0.1% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. We’ve broken it down to different stages of the value chain, and identified key initiatives that will make us reach our goals.

Climate footprint at each stage of the IKEA value chain and how the IKEA business will become climate positive by 2030