Home is the most important place in the world, and we are in the business of supporting people to have a better life at home. Driven by a strong vision of creating a better everyday life for the many people, our focus is to make home furnishing more accessible and affordable, while taking concrete steps across our operations to reduce climate emissions.
Last year, we matched 94.8% of our electricity use with renewable electricity sourcing, and 60.1% of our share of retail home deliveries were made by electric or other zero-tailpipe-emission vehicles. We are retrofitting units with renewable heating and cooling (electrified systems, either heat pumps powered by renewable electricity, or geothermal). Over 2/3rds of our units were no longer powered by traditional gas boilers. Ingka Group achieved a 70.6% reduction in absolute emissions from our own operations (e.g. emissions from energy use in our units and operational waste) against our FY16 baseline, and a 22.3% reduction since FY24.
IKEA is for and by the many people. We see inclusion as our responsibility and a business opportunity. As a company we take actions to give everyone the opportunity to work, belong, and thrive. We continued to implement our Responsible Wage Practices framework and our systematic approach to closing the gender equal pay gap and to develop our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’re pleased to share that we maintained gender balance across the company.
We are excited about the future and we look forward to bringing IKEA to more homes.
