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The world needs to change its economy from a linear to a circular model, minimizing the environmental impacts of the products produced, regulated, and consumed. However, meaningful quantification of product environmental footprints, over various impact categories, including GHG, water & land use, and resource depletion, is a formidable challenge. EPDs provide transparent and comparable data, enabling informed decision-making for sustainable procurement and design for manufacturers to differentiate and improve their products, while architects and designers can make more sustainable choices based on this data. Our whitepaper discusses how embracing EPD methods tailored for lighting will better stand the test of time & raise sustainability ambitions within the lighting industry.

Welcome to Signify’s Climate Transition Plan. This document sets out the company’s climate strategy, ambitions, and action plan in line with our net-zero target for 2040. Signify has an important role to play in the transition to a global low-carbon economy. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), in 2022, lighting accounted for more than 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions1, equivalent to the impact of aviation. Our Climate Transition Plan is inspired by the four As of the climate leadership framework, published by the We Mean Business Coalition (WMBC).2 This framework emphasizes: Ambition, Action, Advocacy and Accountability.

Signify has been pursuing sustainability and energy efficiency for decades. Here are some highlights of our journey.