Reducing the carbon footprint

The lighting industry is called upon to progressively reduce its overall environmental impact. Flos Group has already been aswering. As the first and crucial step, the company keeps on monitoring the direct and indirect Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions along the whole value chain. This is the basis to calculate the company impact and to opt for the most relevant actions to mitigate its carbon footprint. The Group has undertaken the reduction of its GHG emissions by 27.5% by 2030.

For this purpose and as a transition tool, since 2020 Flos Group has purchased carbon credits in order to compensate its GHG direct and indirect (energy market based) emissions – which correspond to Scope 1 and market-based Scope 2 emissions as estabilished by the internationally recognized GHG Protocol. The credits allow Flos Group to achieve the carbon neutrality level.

The credits come from nature-based projects that produce a positive impact, such as the Great Bear Forest Carbon Project in Canadian British Columbia and the Guatemalan Conservation Coast Project. The first one supports changes in managing the territories involved in the protection of the forests on the pacific coast where wolves and Grizzly bears live. The second one, on the Guatemalan Caribbean coastline, works to protect the remaining forests of the region from deforestation. The project area hosts over 400 species of birds.