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Our Sustainability foundation

Sustainability

To achieve our ambitious sustainability goals and help our customers do the same, Rejlers has built a strong foundation focused on four key priorities. Each priority is tied to specific, measurable targets that we carefully monitor, ensuring the effective implementation of our sustainability strategy while managing associated risks.

Key Priorities

Our sustainability goals

Our sustainable foundation is built on four key priorities: Climate Action, Business Ethics, an Inclusive Workplace, and Healthy People. These key priorities ensure we lead by example and create a resilient, responsible business that supports our clients’ long-term success.

  • Climate Action

    Rejlers actively engages in climate action with ambitious science based targets both near term and net-zero, and strategies to significantly reduce our carbon footprint.

  • Business Ethics

    Business ethics at Rejlers entails adhering to the UN’s Global Compact principles, focusing on human rights, labour standards, environmental responsibility, and anti-corruption measures throughout our operations and supply chain.

  • Inclusive Workplace

    Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace at Rejlers enhances employee retention and recruitment efforts, fosters innovative teams, and ensures our customers benefit from a wide range of perspectives and expertise.

  • Healthy People

    At Rejlers, we prioritize employee well-being through initiatives like eNPS and wellness programs, reflecting our commitment to sustainability and continuous learning.

Climate Action

The business sector is playing a crucial part in the ongoing transition to fight climate change. We are in the midst of developing a new, carbon-neutral way of living and doing business. In the given situation, our customers are relying on us as technical experts to proactively contribute to their journey towards decreased climate impact. To be a trustworthy partner in our customers’ transition, we have an ambitious agenda within our own operations and take continuous steps to reduce our climate impact. Direct emissions reductions (decarbonization) will be prioritized and all residual emissions will be neutralized in line with SBTi criteria to reach net-zero emissions.

Rejlers has approved near and long-term science-based emissions reduction targets with the SBTi. The SBTi has also verified Rejlers’s net-zero science-based target by 2050. These targets make sure that we are in line with the Paris Climate Agreement and international standards, ensuring credibility and accountability as we work towards our near-term and net-zero targets. It represents a further step up for our internal climate ambitions and actions.

Our targets

  • Overall net-zero target: Rejlers commits to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) across the value chain by 2050.
  • Near-term targets: Rejlers commits to reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions 42% by FY2030 from a FY2023 base year. Rejlers also commits to reduce scope 3 GHG emissions from business travel 52% per million SEK value added within the same timeframe. Rejlers further commits that 77% of its suppliers by spend covering purchased goods and services and capital goods will have science-based targets by FY2028.
  • Long-term targets: Rejlers commits to reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions 90% by FY2050 from a FY2023 base year. Rejlers also commits to reduce scope 3 GHG emissions 97% per million SEK value added within the same timeframe.

Business Ethics

As the world becomes more complex and fast-moving, integrity becomes increasingly important. Pursuing a strong focus on business ethics throughout the company is vital. Rejlers respects the UN’s Global Compact and its ten principles regarding human rights, working conditions, environmental considerations and anti-corruption. These guidelines must be complied with internally, and we are working with our suppliers to ensure compliance in our supply chain, as well.

Rejlers’ code of conduct describes the requirements we have on our own conduct and behaviour. This includes the board, management and all employees. We also require our customers and partners to respect the code of conduct. Recently, we developed a code of conduct specifically aimed at suppliers which now makes up a mandatory part of our supplier agreements. Our whistleblower function is operated by an external party and can be used for reporting any deviations. Find more information in the downloads below.

Our targets

  • Strengthen requirements on our suppliers and partners (continuous 2025)
  • New target to strengthen the ethical perspective (to be launched in 2024)

Inclusive Workplace

For the company to continue growing, retaining existing employees is important, as well as recruiting new ones. A workplace characterised by diversity and inclusion makes Rejlers more attractive as an employer and provides good conditions for innovative teams and solutions that ultimately benefit the customer.

A gender-equal and diverse workplace means that we do not miss out on important perspectives and skills. Improving gender equality and inclusion is therefore an ongoing endeavour within the organisation. Rejlers started developing a diversity/inclusion metric in 2023 and will continue working with this complex area in 2024.

Our targets

  • 25% women in the organisation
  • Gender equality in group management and country management teams − Diversity/inclusion metric (in development)

Healthy People

At Rejlers, we prioritise creating a good working environment and contributing to our employees’ physical and mental health. Sustainability starts with us. We monitor the outcome through an Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS), which is a measure of how likely it is that an employee would recommend their employer to a friend or acquaintance. Our target for 2025 is a score of 20.

We have the ambition to keep absence due to illness at a maximum of 3 percent by 2025. Generous health care allowances, in combination with recurrent wellness days for all our employees, make up a natural part of increasing well-being at Rejlers. Through our vision Home of the Learning Minds, we underscore the great importance we attach to being a learning organisation with strong focus on training and personal development.

This ultimately strengthens Rejlers’ position as an attractive employer. Learning for us means assimilating new perspectives and understanding things in new ways. We believe that this is crucial for development and necessary to pave the way for a sustainable future.

Our targets

  • (eNPS), which is at 20 (2025)
  • Sick leave at 3 percent (2025)
  • 10/10 in the annual employee survey on learning

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