Metsä Group has updated its 2030 sustainability targets. The update includes both changes to existing targets and new targets focusing on logistics emissions, personnel diversity and occupational safety, for example.
‘We are updating our ambitious targets and reinforcing our commitment to fossil free operations, the improvement of the state of forest nature, an inclusive and ethical corporate culture and occupational safety,’ said Anni Kovanen, director, sustainability management.
The targets were last updated two years ago, when measures improving forests’ biodiversity and health as well as measures promoting fossil free production were added to them.
The targets’ achievement has been monitored with a comprehensive set of indicators. Several key successes have been achieved to date: Fossil based Scope 1 and Scope 2 carbon dioxide emissions have been reduced. The share of anonymous recruitment has increased from 43% to 99%. The share of certified wood of all the wood procured has increased to 93%.
Metsä Group’s new or edited sustainability targets include the following:
Logistics emissions (Scope 3, category 4) will be reduced by 30% per tonne kilometre from the 2022 level.
Wood raw material and purchased pulp will be excluded from the monitoring of fossil free raw materials and packaging materials so that progress made in the fossil free share of other raw materials will be easier to monitor.
The production volume of mechanical wood products will be increased by 30% from the 2018 level.
The share of certified wood will be raised to 100%.
The company’s first climate transition plan will be published, describing the key measures for achieving the strategic climate targets. In addition to the group’s common goals, wood supply and tissue paper company Metsä Tissue will reduce its total emissions by 50% from 2022 to 2030.
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