The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, as a part of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
We acknowledge that business cannot thrive in a world of poverty, inequality, unrest and environmental stress, so it is vital for us to ensure that we contribute to the SDGs that are relevant to us.
Relevant SDGs for Fiskars Group
We have identified three SDGs that were clearly relevant for us throughout the entire value chain, and with both a positive and negative impact. We believe that choosing pertinent SDGs and integrating them into the sustainability concept, targets, and action plans will support our work and help us to better communicate our focus areas.
SDG number 12: Responsible consumption and production
As a consumer goods company, we have a crucial impact on, and the capacity to affect people’s consumption habits and our potential to influence is considerable. We are already developing our environmental performance in terms of materials, substances of concern and waste management. In the future, we could expand our approach through a better understanding of different topics, such as the lifecycle of our products and the impact of sustainable service models.
SDG number 10: Reduced inequalities
Fiskars Group employs around 7,000 employees and there is an even more significant number of people working in our value chain. For us, diversity and equal treatment of all people are top priorities. On the other hand, we also have a responsibility to reduce inequalities.
SDG number 13: Climate change
Our current core business is to produce products and deliver them to our customers and consumers throughout our supply chain. In each link of the value chain, from raw material extraction to the end-of-life of our products, we have a negative impact on climate change in the form of CO2 emissions. That said, we have already worked to reduce our negative impact and through our lasting design and new business models around circular economy, we are able to achieve a further positive impact.
