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Climate action

Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. In today’s world, this means transforming our business and value chain to drastically reduce our climate footprint. It’s our responsibility to the home we share and what our customers and co-workers expect.

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A clear strategy

The IKEA Sustainability Strategy is to inspire, activate and lead us in our planning, decision-making and goal setting so that we together can achieve the big positive changes we want to see for the IKEA business, and in the world.

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Three clear climate goals

To reduce our climate footprint we have set the following strategic goals, in order of priority:

1. Drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions

This will be achieved by using more materials and food ingredients with a low climate footprint, striving towards electrification, 100% renewable energy and continually improving energy efficiency, promoting choices with a lower climate footprint, and transforming into a circular business.

A single wind turbine at the end of a stone breakwater. The sky is grey blue with a single band of light grey cloud.

2. Removing and storing carbon through forestry, agriculture and products

The next step in halving our climate footprint is removing CO₂ from the atmosphere through natural processes. To do this we will store CO₂ through better forestry and agriculture management practices. A circular economy will also ensure that carbon remains stored in our products and materials for longer.

IKEA Forest Positive Agenda for 2030
A forest scene. The area in the foreground is lightly wooded with a wide path, while the background has denser foliage.
IKEA Forest Positive Agenda for 2030

3. Going beyond IKEA

We will take extended responsibility for the climate footprint of our customers, suppliers, and sourcing. To do this we will enable customers to generate renewable energy at home, and transform our suppliers’ entire factories or operations to renewable energy - not just the part used for IKEA production.

An array of hundreds of solar panels on the roof of an IKEA building. In the background is a large three-sided IKEA sign.

Creating markets for second-hand items

A growing number of IKEA markets buy back IKEA furniture from customers who no longer need it and re-sell these good-quality second-hand items to new customers in the As-Is areas. IKEA Sweden has tested a pop-up store stocked entirely with second-hand IKEA products. In Canada, customers can purchase second-hand furniture from our Circular hub (As-is) section in each of our stores.

Helping products live longer

We are offering more and more spare parts to enable customers to prolong the life of their IKEA products. To make it even easier for customers to get spare parts, we have launched an easy-to-use online ordering solution globally.