A sustainable everyday
We want to empower people to live more sustainably, so we’re focusing on affordable, resource and energy efficient products. With Water saving solutions, plant-based meals, and energy-saving solutions, we’re paving the way for more sustainable homes for the many.
“We've revised our sustainability strategy - we don’t have all the answers and cannot achieve our objectives alone. Therefore, we are committed to working together in a collaborative way, inside as well as outside our business, and being transparent about what we learn. We build on our culture of entrepreneurship, always moving forward and not waiting for perfection, working together to achieve continuous improvements.”
Enablers
Our size and business setup are strengths that allow us to think and act long-term to make our objectives a reality. Central to this process are transparency and accountability. We are determined to be a positive force in society, and inspire, influence and work with others through a set of strategic enablers:
1) Entrepreneurship and innovation
We rely on our entrepreneurial spirit for innovation and turning challenges into opportunities. We also look to others, such as our suppliers, partners and social entrepreneurs, to drive positive change, including ideas and inspiration to help tackle inequality and promote human rights.
2) Co-creation and partnership
We work together with customers, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), innovative partners and suppliers who have unique expertise, perspectives and insights to develop value for people, the planet and our business.
3) Science-informed actions
We base our actions on science, informed by global methodologies and frameworks. We also partner with academic organisations to support research which can help us better understand opportunities to remove barriers and scale solutions across the IKEA business.
4) Business requirements
We continuously work to ensure investment mechanisms, performance indicators, data, digital tools and technology, processes, the IKEA Concept, and other capabilities and incentives are in place throughout the business to support the transformational changes needed.
5) Competence and knowledge building
We cultivate a learning environment encouraging and supporting competence development and knowledge building among our co-workers and across the IKEA value chain.
6) Codes of conduct — IWAY and IConduct
We will continue setting clear standards and expectations for the IKEA business relationships and ourselves. The expectations we place on ourselves, and our business partners are found in our supplier code of conduct, IWAY, the Inter IKEA Group Code of Conduct, and the franchisee code of conduct, IConduct.
7) Reporting and transparency
We are open and transparent and invite others to learn from our successes, set-backs, challenges and ways of working. The IKEA business is fully committed to transparently reporting on our progress in line with relevant standards and welcomes relevant new reporting requirements. To move from vision to action, each business needs to set clear targets to prioritise and measure our progress.
8) Inclusiveness and community engagement
We seek always to be inclusive and actively engage in the communities where we operate, through IKEA stores, offices, warehouses, factories, and online platforms. We strive to engage with affected stakeholders to address both direct and indirect impacts of the IKEA business.
9) Communication and marketing
We want to ensure our communications are fact-based, clear, honest and trustworthy, continuing to build and maintain trust and integrity in our sustainability messaging. Through our communication and marketing, we aim to inspire and enable people to make a positive difference in their everyday lives, in their communities and in society at large.
10) Advocacy
Through advocacy, we work with governments, authorities, politicians, civil servants, trade associations, NGO’s, unions, and others with an interest in, or impact on, the IKEA business. We engage in dialogue and share experience-based insights on key topics and in markets relevant for our business.
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A clear sustainability strategy
We’ve set ambitious goals. This includes commiting to becoming climate positive by 2030. This means reducing more greenhouse gas emissions than the full IKEA value chain emits, while growing the IKEA business.
