- Signify is on track to achieve company-wide carbon neutrality this year
- Generated 82.5% of revenues from energy efficient products, systems and services, ahead of the 2020 target of 80%
- Reduced waste to landfill by 70%, with 90% of waste recycled
Eindhoven, the Netherlands – Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, has made significant progress in 2019 toward its sustainability targets set for 2020 as part of its Brighter Lives, Better World sustainability program. We further reduced our carbon footprint by 9.5% and increased the number of markets where we achieved carbon neutrality to 15 out of 19, bringing us closer to achieving company-wide carbon neutrality this year.
In 2019, we generated 82.5% of our revenues from energy efficient products, systems and services1, ahead of our 2020 target of 80%. We also achieved carbon neutrality in our markets in Latin America and in ASEAN, Far East, India, Indonesia and Pacific. On top of that, we reduced our waste to landfill by 70%, with 90% of our waste recycled. With a supplier sustainability performance rate of 99%, we are well ahead of our 2020 target of 90%. We want to assure a safe and healthy workspace for our employees and are 9% ahead of our 2020 safety target.