As a furniture company, Royal Ahrend is very aware of the environmental impact on its operations and value chain. Every day we work to improve our impact by focusing on three different projects: sustainable products, circular services and climate action. Our goal is to ultimately reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2050.. Together with our suppliers and customers, we aim to reach this goal and make a real difference.

The past few years we worked on prioritising the projects that have the highest potential and impact. This resulted in a robust sustainability strategy focused on three environmental topics:

• Sustainable products 
  Our products represent approximately 30% of our scope 3 emissions and contain a wide variety of materials. The way we design and construct our products is crucial to reducing our environmental impact. We are therefore committed to making our products responsibly, with low VOC emissions and free from pollutants.

• Circular services 
  In close collaboration with our customers, we have developed services to extend our furniture’s lifespan. By scaling our circular services model, we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions together with our suppliers and customers.

• Climate action 
  We have implemented ambitious climate mitigation measures to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Various company wide projects contribute to reaching our goals and in collaboration with our value chain we contribute to a positive movement within the furniture industry.

Our environmental topics will be explained in the following chapters. All three contribute to ESRS standards climate action and resource use and circular economy. For example, we explain how sustainable product design contributes to taking climate action and what the effects are on resource use and circular economy. We believe that making integral decisions based on both climate action, resource use and the circular economy supports the best decision-making.