Climate protection
LEONI considers global climate change and the related, mounting statutory and economic demands to be part of corporate responsibility. As a preferred partner in the market for climate-friendly and resource-efficient mobility, one focus is on climate neutrality and the efficient and sparing use of resources at all locations and along the entire value chain. The biggest causes of scope 1 and 2 emissions at LEONI include energy sources used in generating power for our production facilities and logistics. LEONI intends to remain an attractive supplier for its customers and to contribute to the mobility transformation with efficient use of renewable energy and environmentally friendly transport.
"We are taking measures at our sites all around the world on an ongoing basis in order to lower our energy demand and to cover it in a climate-friendly way."
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Key sustainability issues:
- Renewable energy and energy efficiency
- Environmentally friendly transport
Overarching goal:
- Reduction of emissions aligned to science-based targets
As a key target, LEONIs ReWire defines measurable steps on the way to achieving a 90 percent reduction in the Company's CO2 emissions by 2050 compared with the baseline year of 2021 – guided by the recommendations of the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). To this end, LEONI is, among other things, expanding use of renewable energy at all its facilities and taking action to improve energy efficiency. LEONI also intends to increasingly offset unavoidable emissions with the goal of attaining LEONI’s climate neutrality (scope 1 to 3) by 2045, and as early as 2035 in terms of direct energy consumption.
Our contribution to sustainable development
Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Making cities and residential areas inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Affordable and clean energy
Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Sustainable cities and communities
Making cities and residential areas inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Climate action
Taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Our targets (baseline year 2021)
By 2025, we will reduce our emissions in Scope 1 and 2 by 17% and in Scope 3 by 10%.
100% climate neutrality in scopes 1 and 2 between 2035 and 2040.
In tandem with reducing emissions, unavoidable emissions will be offset with certificates.
90% CO2-reduction of our emissions in scopes 1 to 3.
2025
2025
By 2025, we will reduce our emissions in Scope 1 and 2 by 17% and in Scope 3 by 10%.
2040
2040
100% climate neutrality in scopes 1 and 2 between 2035 and 2040.
In tandem with reducing emissions, unavoidable emissions will be offset with certificates.
2050
2050
90% CO2-reduction of our emissions in scopes 1 to 3.
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol serves as the internationally recognised standard for balancing emissions. LEONI is currently focusing on measures to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions, which are caused mainly by purchased and consumed energy. Most of the emissions that LEONI causes for its own business operations have their origin in the upstream and downstream value chain (scope 3). LEONI intends, in this respect, to expand its own emissions balancing in certain categories and to develop reduction measures.
How does the Greenhouse Gas Protocol work?
LEONI's science-based reduction targets (baseline year 2021)
In 2022, LEONI developed a science-based reduction pathway that outlines the emission reductions needed to align emissions with the 1.5-degree target. Based on this, we have set the goal of reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 38% by 2030 and by 90% by 2050 compared to the base year 2021. Through consistent and ongoing measures, LEONI aims to achieve a 90% reduction in emissions by 2050. To achieve climate neutrality in Scope 1 and 2 between 2035 and 2040, unavoidable emissions will be offset from 2035 through certified compensation measures. To initiate this course as quickly as possible, LEONI has also set the goal of saving 17% of emissions by the year 2025.
Reduction of LEONI's scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions
Wiring systems for low-emissions mobility
Mobility of the future will be sustainable and decarbonised. We will play our part in making this happen. We will lower greenhouse gas emissions by continually developing our wiring systems. Particularly reducing the weight of our wiring systems will save fuel and thus emissions on journeys. In collaboration with our customers, we are also striving to broaden our product portfolio to include sustainable product solutions and production processes, and thereby also to contribute to e-mobility, for example.
Conversion to renewable energies
The switch to sustainable electricity procurement at LEONI is in full swing. To further expand the sustainable supply of electricity to our facilities, we intend in future to rely not only on external suppliers but also increasingly on our own power plants. Solar roofs and photovoltaic systems play a particularly important role here, and we are successively expanding them.
In 2025, LEONI carried out, among others, the following measures in the area of renewable energy and energy efficiency:
- further conversion of production sites to renewable electricity green electricity tariffs, Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and the expansion of its own photovoltaic systems,
- the modernisation of equipment, intelligent lighting and the optimisation of compressed-air systems,
- the implementation of further energy efficiency measures and awareness activities to promote responsible energy use across all locations.
Transparent and climate-friendly value creation
Looking forward, we intend to decarbonise our entire value chain – including our logistics and the operations of our suppliers. Only together can we achieve our vision of climate-friendly and resource-efficient mobility that is accessible to all. We have already set ecological standards with our Code of Conduct for Business Partners. In addition, we are currently working on making the carbon footprint of our purchased materials more transparent and thus being able to incorporate further sustainability criteria into our procurement.
Environmentally friendly transport
At LEONI, emissions are also caused by means of transport. Materials and products need to be transported between LEONI’s sites and its customers and suppliers, in some cases across long distances. A comprehensive understanding of these emissions is essential to derive effective reduction measures and achieve our climate targets.
LEONI is continuously working to increase transparency regarding transport-related emissions. In 2025, LEONI continued to strengthen the integration of climate considerations into its operational processes and supply chain management. Alongside efforts to reduce emissions from its own operations, the company further enhanced data collection and reporting processes to improve the quality and transparency of emissions data across the value chain, including logistics-related emissions.
To contribute to lower transport-related emissions, LEONI continues to focus on optimizing logistics processes, promoting efficient resource utilization and supporting regional sourcing approaches where feasible. In addition, reusable packaging and returnable load carriers remain an important element of LEONI’s logistics concept, supporting waste reduction and the more efficient use of materials throughout transportation and distribution activities.
