ARQA’s Climate Positive Roadmap
It’ll take serious work, and it’ll take all of us, but we’ll do our part to reduce our carbon footprint ASAP. That’s why we made a commitment to be Climate Positive by 2025 and we’re sharing our roadmap with anyone who wants to do the same. Because we can’t do this alone.
Where we’re at: Out 2021 footprint
< 1% Fuels
1% Electricity
< 1% Business travel*
< 1% Commuting
17% Transport
60% Materials
< 1% Manufacturing
12% Other purchased goods & services*
4% Capital goods*
4% Garment care
< 1% Waste & end of life
In order to become Climate Positive, we needed to know where we’re at today. So we started by measuring our current greenhouse gas footprint.
It’s a big number, but it’s not impossible to get to a place that meets our reduction targets and keeps our business growing sustainably.
In order to become Climate Positive, we needed to know where we’re at today. So we started by measuring our current greenhouse gas footprint.
It’s a big number, but it’s not impossible to get to a place that meets our reduction targets and keeps our business growing sustainably.
There are a lot of terms out there: climate or carbon neutral, net zero, carbon negative/positive.
Here’s a chart to help you out:
We looked at where most of our emissions came from and identified steps to reduce our footprint in our focus areas: better materials, circularity, transportation, and energy management.
Based on our planned reduction efforts, our work is aligned to global efforts to keep temperature rise below 1.5C (aka science-based). We also overestimated our emissions a bit so far, so we feel really confident that we can meet or beat our commitment if we stick to the work outlined here.
