UAE Business: Atlas Copco Portable Air accelerates sustainability transition – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Atlas Copco Portable Air accelerates sustainability transition – Gulf Digital News

A market leader in mobile air compressors, Atlas Copco’s Portable Air division is playing a key part in meeting global climate objectives.

The company, as part of a wider Atlas Copco Group initiative, is committed to ‘doing business within planetary boundaries’. With that in mind it has set itself a range of ambitious emissions reduction targets that are grounded in climate science through the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

Funded by the IKEA Foundation, Amazon, the Bezos Earth Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the UPS Foundation, and many major businesses such as BMW, Nike, Daimler, and SNCF, the SBTi gives companies a clearly defined path to reduce CO2 emissions in what it calls ‘a race to the top’ in zero-carbon transition.

The organisation also checks that a company’s targets are in line with what the science demands regarding greenhouse gas emissions.

Whole value chain reductions

Science-based targets differ from other goals because they are absolute reduction targets; they are not related to cost of sales but targets across a company’s entire value chain. It includes emissions from energy consumed on direct operations, such as manufacturing, vehicles, and offices, emissions generated when producing materials or components used in products, and emissions from the use of those products.

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