Climate change is happening, and is impacting communities, economies and nature. Therefore, we have to act now. Reducing carbon emissions that directly result from our own operations is a key focus for our climate change mitigation actions because we have direct influence on measures to reduce these emissions. We have set ourselves the goal of achieving carbon neutral production globally by 2030. Respective measures are energy-related and include energy efficiency, renewable energy deployment, and renewable energy and fuel sourcing.
In addition to our activities at our own sites, we aim to leverage our influence on upstream and downstream emissions in our value chain. We have set the science-based target of achieving Net Zero by 2045.
Net Zero defines the point where all greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity are balanced out by removing the same volume of emissions from our planet’s atmosphere over a specific period of time. In other words, Net Zero is a state of equilibrium.
We’re proud to have made great progress towards meeting our ambitious targets and have already achieved carbon neutral production across all our own Schwarzkopf production plants in Europe and North America.
We have already installed more than 24,000 solar panels at our European Schwarzkopf sites and have been using 100 percent renewable energy in our production processes for our hair products since 2024.
By making energy efficiency improvements and switching to renewable energy, since 2010 we’ve been able to reduce our CO₂ emissions by 80 percent per tonne of product for all Henkel Consumer Brands production sites globally.
Going forward, we will continue to reduce emissions in our direct operations through energy efficiency and by sourcing renewable fuel and energy.