Integrated into our daily business
At Fagerhult Group, sustainability is central to everything we do. It shapes our strategy, governance and daily operations. Our goal is to deliver professional lighting solutions that help people feel and perform at their best, while reducing environmental impact and supporting the ongoing shift towards a circular economy. We focus on energy efficiency, reduced emissions, smarter use of materials and enhanced well-being.
Environmental responsibility – reducing our footprint, maximising our impact
We focus our environmental efforts where we can make the greatest difference – the climate footprint of our lighting solutions throughout their life cycle. Over 90 per cent of our total climate impact occurs during the use phase, mainly from electricity consumption. Materials and components are the second-largest source of emissions, followed by logistics and our own energy use. This highlights the importance of smart lighting, energy efficiency, conscious material choices, and circularity in our sustainability work. We are committed to continuous improvement and innovation, ensuring our business creates value for people, society, and the planet.
Our people are fundamental to our achievements. With global reach and strong local presence, we combine inter national expertise with local insight, supporting employee development and building long-term relationships with customers and partners. Collaboration and shared knowledge are essential to achieving our climate goals and transitioning to more circular business models. We invest in competence, collaboration, and a positive culture to create a workplace where employees feel engaged and valued. Diversity and inclusion are prerequisites for innovation and sound decision-making. We promote safe and inclusive workplaces, invest in skills and leadership development, and respect human rights, fair working conditions and diversity – both within our own operations and throughout our supply chain.
Social responsibility – empowering people and partnerships
Governance – the foundation for responsible business
Our governance structures and values aim to ensure that inclusion and responsibility guide us at every stage of our value chain. We are committed to transparency, integrity, and a culture that encourages curiosity. Our commitment to ethical and sustainable business is supported by robust governance frameworks, a Code of Conduct with zero tolerance for corruption, and clear positions on anti-money laundering, competition law, human rights and precautionary principles, all reinforced by our anti-corruption policy.
“The right light, at the right time, in the right place creates safe, efficient, and sustainable living environments.”
Josefin Unger Belin,
Head of Sustainaiblity, Fagerhult Group
"When we look at risks, the building industry’s risk-averse nature could be the biggest challenge."
Dean Campbell- Smith,
Director Sustainable Innovation, Fagerhult Group
15%
Lighting accounts for up to 15 per cent of global electricity consumption.
90%
Smart lighting in combination with the latest LED technology can reduce energy consumption up to 90 per cent.
Our sustainability efforts
Our ambition is to contribute to a better world through smart lighting solutions. We want everyone who comes into contact with our solutions to be able to fully do what they want in the best possible way, thanks to our lighting.
Climate roadmap
Our ambition is to contribute to a better world through smart lighting solutions. We want everyone who comes into contact with our solutions to be able to fully do what they want in the best possible way, thanks to our lighting.
Lighting accounts for up to 15 per cent of global electricity consumption. By using the latest smart lighting solutions, users can reduce energy consumption up to 90 per cent. The lighting industry has significant opportunities to contribute, which is why energy efficiency is a priority for us. Actively driving the transition to a circular economy is also an important priority. Together with our customers, we streamline, reuse, expand or update existing lighting solutions.
Our continued main focus is to reduce our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to reach our 2030 and 2045 targets. To achieve this, we have defined and prioritised around 20 key activities that each Group company is diligently working on. Increasing the share of smart lighting is a priority to reduce use-phase emissions. Similarly, the companies are working to improve the efficiency of our luminaires. New material choices, and efficiency improvements in material use, transportation and energy are other ongoing initiatives to reduce emissions.
Since our base year 2021, we have reduced our emissions by 50 per cent.
About Science Based Targets initiative
The SBTi is a global initiative that allows companies to set ambitious targets for emissions reduction in line with the latest climate research. The focus is on increasing the rate of transition for companies to halve global emissions by 2030 and to become climateneutral by 2050. The initiative is a partnership between the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the UN Global Compact (UNGC), the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Wildlife Fund. It is also a part of the We Mean Business Coalition.
Towards a brighter future – our path to net-zero
Our path to net-zero is built on clear, science-based climate targets and concrete action. Achieving net-zero means cutting our greenhouse gas emissions as far as possible and then ensuring all remaining emissions are removed from the atmosphere. Fagerhult Group is committed to reaching netzero emissions by 2045, by reducing emissions in our operations, our supply chain, and supporting our customers with high-efficiency smart lighting solutions. Between 2021 and 2030, we aim to reduce Scope 3 emissions by 30 per cent and Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 70 per cent.
Through the effort and focus we place on moving towards our climate targets, we are also able to lower our environmental impacts beyond greenhouse gas emissions. Embracing circularity goes hand-in-hand with solving several of the complex challenges on the road to net zero, as well as finding better ways to treat nature in our value chain and identifying new opportunities for our business. Across the Group in 2025, we have strengthened our framework for working with circularity, developed new products in line with circularity principles, and tested new circular business models – bringing circularity some steps closer, for us and our clients.
To achieve our science-based net-zero targets, we focus on four main areas:
- Phasing out natural gas use and increasing the share of renewable energy in our own operations.
- Doing more with less through conscious material choices and closer supplier collaboration.
- Maximising energy efficiency in the use phase of our products through integrating smart lighting and harnessing new technologies in our products and services.
- Gradually unlocking circularity through reuse, upgrading, and new business models.
Our near-term and long-term targets
2030:
Reduced emissions by: 70% Scope 1 and 2, 30% Scope 3
2045 :
Reach net-zero GHG emissions
Footprint from products sold by Fagerhult Group 2025
Upstream activities
Scope 3
Materials, components and logistics
6.5% - Materials
0.5% - Other
0.5% - Logistics
Own operations
Scope 1 and 2
Energy
0.5% - Energy
Downstream activities
Scope 3
Use phase
92% - Use phase
Sustainability report
The Sustainability report 2025 is developed in accordance with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and is an integrated part of Fagerhult Group’s Annual and Sustainability Report.
Policies
Our policies within this area cover the Fagerhult Group Code of Conduct for Business Partners, as well as our policies on Conflict Minerals, Human Rights, and Working Conditions.
Group sustainability initiatives
Reduce light pollution with “Wild-Light”
WE-EF has launched a new generation of luminaires that is geared towards sustainability and offers its users connectivity and future-proofing, for example through “Wild-Light” technology.
Wrapped - the world's first cardboard pendant luminaire
Wrapped is designed with inclusiveness and sustainability in mind, and ingenuity and inventiveness at heart. It has the future – and the user – in absolute focus, and it leaves no room for excuses: it simply illustrates sustainable and premium lighting made accessible.
Go beyond recycling with Geopak
We all want less waste. And for many of our customers, hitting waste reduction targets can be essential to meeting investment criteria or sustainability accreditation standards. But the truth is, managing recycling on site is a challenge, with costly skips quickly filling with recyclable content like cardboard.