Nilfisk has released its annual Corporate Social Responsibility report stating that the company in just two years has gone from an F rating to an A-. This means that the company have reached leadership-level within the sector.
The homework behind the grade
Nilfisk has over the past years worked focused on setting up an internal process in order to identify, assess and manage climate-related risks and opportunities and this has played a significant role in the quick advancement of the company’s CDP-score.
“We have established strong organisational structures and governance processes in our CSR approach. We have a board-level oversight of climate-related issues and the responsibility for overall CSR and Climate strategy is placed in top management. This is supported with a CSR Board to ensure cross-functional support in execution of the CSR strategy,” explains Camilla Ramby, Chief Marketing Officer at Nilfisk.
Nilfisk is committed to the Science Based Target Initiative, supporting companies worldwide in establishing greenhouse-gas reduction targets based on the latest climate-science knowledge and the goals of the Paris Agreement.
“Our commitment to the Science Based Target Initiative means that we have a program in place to support the execution of our carbon-reduction projects. We are working on a number of initiatives to reach our goal of reducing our carbon footprint by 35% by 2030. To mention a few, we have established a new car policy to reduce CO2 emissions in our car fleet, defined LED-energy-efficiency projects, which we have implemented in some of our largest facilities in Europe and North America – and in 2020 we transitioned from trucks to electric trains for transportation of goods between our productions sites in Hungary and our distribution centres in Belgium, resulting in a CO2 reduction of 96,903 tons,” says Camilla Ramby.
Ambitions for a straight A
Even though Nilfisk can now find themselves amongst the very top of innovative and proactive companies on climate performance, the company has no intentions of slowing down activities and planning to reach their goals:
“We are proud of reaching a significant improvement in our CDP score in just a few years, but we have not yet graduated, and we are committed to managing our climate impact even better. We are constantly improving our data overview, which enables us to calculate our carbon footprint on different activities. This will form the basis of the specific goals that ensure Nilfisk does not contribute to global temperature rises,” says Camilla Ramby.
Read Nilfisk’s full CSR Report on https://documents.nilfisk.com/Nilfisk/nilfisk-csr-report-2020/
For more information, please contact:
Sara Westphal Emborg
Head of Media Relations
+45 22228577,
semborg@nilfisk.com
