Volvo Cars har mottatt en verdifull tredjepartsgodkjenning av selskapets klimaplan.
Klimaplanen, som sier at Volvo har en ambisjon om å bli et klimanøytralt selskap innen 2040, har blitt vitenskapelig verifisert av Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI), en "non-profit"-organisasjon som bistår selskaper med å kunne støtte opp under Paris-avtalen.
I følge SBTI er Volvo Cars' klimaplan, som også har kortsiktige 2025-ambisjoner, på linje med de nødvendige nivåene av karbonreduksjon som skal til for å nå målet om å begrense global oppvarming til to grader, sammenlignet med før-industrielt nivå.
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In its validation process, SBTI specifies how much and how quickly individual companies have to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in order to meet the ambitions as laid out in the Paris Agreement.
“As a mobility provider, we are part of the problem of climate change, but we can also be part of the solution,” said Hanna Fager, Head of Corporate Functions at Volvo Cars. “We have a responsibility to act. That is why carbon reduction has the highest priority within our company. Having our climate ambitions validated by SBTI gives us valuable reassurance that we are on the right track.”
Launched last year, Volvo Cars’ comprehensive climate plan addresses carbon emissions across all its operations and products, towards its vision to become climate-neutral by 2040.
The plan goes beyond addressing tailpipe emissions through electrification; the company will also tackle carbon emissions in its manufacturing network and wider operations, its supply chain and through recycling and reuse of materials.
As a first, tangible step towards its 2040 vision the company aims to reduce its lifecycle carbon footprint per car by 40 per cent by 2025.
The plan includes the following ambitions: a 50 per cent reduction in tailpipe emissions per car, a 25 percent reduction per car in operational carbon emissions, including from manufacturing and logistics, and a 25 per cent reduction per car in supply chain carbon emissions.
Volvo Cars was the first established car maker to commit to all-out electrification and is the only brand to offer a plug-in hybrid variant on every model in its line-up. It will also introduce a range of fully electric models in coming years, starting with the XC40 Recharge, deliveries of which will start later this year.
Sales of its plug-in hybrid cars amounted to almost a quarter of sales in Europe during the first half of 2020. During the period, Volvo Cars was the number one plug-in hybrid premium brand in Europe as measured by market researcher IHS, and by 2025 Volvo Cars aims for its global sales volume to consist of 50 per cent fully electric cars, with the rest hybrids.
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Volvo Car Norway AS
Volvo Car Norway AS er et heleid datterselskap av Volvo Car Group. Våre 44 ansatte holder til på Fornebu, vest for Oslo sentrum. Vi er i et sterkt partnerskap med våre 48 uavhengige Volvo-forhandlere over hele Norge, alle med en felles målsetning om å skape Volvo-unike kundeopplevelser. Volvo er et av bilbransjens sterkeste merker, med solid posisjon i Norge. I 2019 ble det registrert 10 056 nye biler fra Volvo i Norge, som utgjør en markedsandel på 7,1 prosent.
Om Volvo Car Group
Volvo har vært i drift siden 1927. I dag er Volvo et av de mest anerkjente og respekterte bilmerkene i verden. Volvo solgte til sammen 705 452 biler fordelt på omtrent 100 land i 2019. Volvo Cars eies av det kinesiske selskapet Zhejiang Geely Holding (Geely Holding). Selskapet var en del av det svenske Volvo-konsernet frem til 1999, da det ble kjøpt opp av Ford Motor Company i USA. Volvo Cars ble kjøpt opp av Geely Holding i 2010. I 2018 hadde Volvo Cars i gjennomsnitt cirka 43 000 (39 500) heltidsansatte. Volvos hovedkontor, produktutvikling, markedsføring og administrasjon er hovedsakelig lokalisert i Göteborg i Sverige. Volvo Cars kinesiske hovedkontor ligger i Shanghai. Selskapets viktigste produksjonsanlegg er lokalisert i Göteborg (Sverige), Gent (Belgia), South Carolina (USA) Chengdu og Daqing (Kina). Motorene blir produsert i Skövde (Sverige) og Zhangjiakou (Kina), mens karosseridelene blir produsert i Olofström (Sverige).
Under its new company purpose, Volvo Cars aims to provide customers with the Freedom to Move in a personal, sustainable and safe way. This purpose is reflected into a number of business ambitions: for example, by the middle of this decade it aims for half of its global sales to be fully electric cars and to establish five million direct consumer relationships. Volvo Cars is also committed to an ongoing reduction of its carbon footprint, with the ambition to be a climate-neutral company by 2040.
