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. Sustainability targets are part of Metsä Group’s strategy work.
“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,” says Anni Kovanen, Metsä Group’s 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 per cent to 99 per cent. The share of certified wood of all the wood procured has increased to 93 per cent.
Metsä Group’s new or edited sustainability targets include the following:
- Logistics emissions (Scope 3, category 4) will be reduced by 30 per cent 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 per cent from the 2018 level.
- The share of certified wood will be raised to 100 per cent.
- Zero accidents at work remains our goal, but the goal will be expanded to cover the employees of Metsä Group’s service providers in addition to our own employees.
- Employee satisfaction will be measured annually with the commitment index, and the achievement of an ethical corporate culture will be measured with the ethics index. In addition, the Metsä for All index measures employees' experience of how diversity, equality and inclusion principles are implemented.
- The share of women in the company’s management will be raised to 35 per cent compared to the current target of 30 per cent. The definition of management positions will also be widened.
- The company’s first climate transition plan will be published, describing the key measures for achieving the strategic climate targets (link). In addition to Metsä Group's common goals, Metsä Group's wood supply and tissue paper company Metsä Tissue will reduce their total emissions by 50 per cent from 2022 to 2030.
Read more about Metsä Group’s 2030 sustainability targets (link).