Brighter Lives,
Better World 2025

Doubling our positive impact on the environment & society

We’re proud to now already be a carbon neutral company! We’ve also achieved 100% renewable electricity and will celebrate our ambitious milestones on sustainable revenues, safety, supplier sustainability and zero waste to landfill at the end of this year.

Now, we embark on a new, five-year journey to double our positive impact on the environment and society.

With the United Nations´ Sustainable Development Goals as our strategic compass, we are launching even more ambitious goals. We are providing solutions that address some important challenges of our time - for brighter lives and a better world.

Signify's sustainability program Brighter Lives, Better World 2025

How we create Brighter Lives and a Better World

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Our Head of Sustainability, Environment, Health and Safety explains our new program

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How we drive Growth for Sustainability

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“Brighter Lives, Better World is not a standalone program. It is hardwired into our purpose, our strategy, and the way we do business. We need to address some important challenges of our time — climate change, resource scarcity, population growth and urbanization. These shape the needs of our customers, our employees, and the society we live in. This is why we are committed to not just increasing our positive impact, but to doubling it.”

Eric Rondolat, CEO Signify

For 2025 we will double our positive impact on the environment and society with the following goals:

Double the pace of the Paris Agreement

As part of our commitment to climate action (SDG 13) and affordable and clean energy (SDG 7), we will go beyond carbon neutrality and double the pace of the Paris Agreement 1.5°C scenario. We will reach the 2031 pathway in 2025 by increasing the energy efficiency of our portfolio to reduce emissions of our customers and driving carbon reductions at our suppliers.

Double our circular revenues to 32%

We are committed to responsible consumption and production (SDG 12) with products that can be reprinted, refurbished, reused or recycled. This will help us to achieve our goal of doubling our revenues from circular products, systems and services to 32% in 2025.

Double our revenues for brighter lives which benefit society to 32%

We are committed to supporting good health and wellbeing (SDG 3) and sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11). We will double the percentage of our revenues for brighter lives, which includes revenues from lighting innovations which increase food availability, safety & security or health & wellbeing.

Double our percentage of women in leadership to 34%

We are committed to decent work & economic growth (SDG 8). This is anchored in our company strategy with our promise to create a great place to work. We will strengthen our commitment to diversity & inclusion and aim to double the percentage of women in leadership in our business to 34%.

We will continue and strengthen our ongoing commitments for 2025:

Carbon neutral operations and 100% renewable electricity
Increase Climate action revenues to 72%
Zero waste to landfill for all manufacturing sites
Eliminate plastics from all consumer packaging (2021)
Light 10 million lives through the Signify Foundation
Safe & healthy workplace with a Total Recorded Case rate of <0.30
Supplier sustainability performance of 95%

Our commitment to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

As the global leader in lighting, we believe we have an important role to play in helping to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGs are our strategic compass in creating our Brighter Lives, Better World 2025 program and commitments. We believe that we can drive change by focusing on the areas where we can be most influential. Therefore, we are committed and actively working to help achieve SDGs 3, 7, 8, 11, 12, and 13.

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There is strength in numbers, which is why we work closely with our suppliers, peer groups, industry organizations and academia to create products and systems that make a real difference and to push boundaries and innovate.

Some of our partnerships include:

StEP: solving the E-waste Problem

En.lighten intitative: a public & private partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), industry and countries. The aim is to drive the conversion to environmentally sustainable lighting technologies

Ellen MacArthur Foundation: leading the way in building capabilities towards a circular economy

Some of our partnerships include:

StEP: solving the E-waste Problem

Ellen MacArthur Foundation: leading the way in building capabilities towards a circular economy

Brighter Lives, Better World 2025

Doubling our positive impact on the environment & society

How we create Brighter Lives and a Better World Watch the video

Our Head of Sustainability, Environment, Health and Safety explains our new program Watch the video

How we drive Growth for Sustainability Watch the video