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Sustainability strategy

04.03.2026
Kesko's sustainability strategy sets clear sustainability targets for the operations of Kesko and its three divisions. The focus areas of the sustainability strategy are climate and nature, value chain, our people, and good governance.

Sustainability is a central part of Kesko’s strategy and the business operations of our three divisions. The effects of what we do spread far and wide through society.

  • Minimising impact on climate and nature. We respect planetary boundaries by minimising negative and maximising positive impacts on climate and nature.
  • Challenging suppliers and encouraging customers. We drive sustainability throughout the value chain and help our customers make sustainable choices.
  • Promoting the wellbeing and success of our employees. We create safety and wellbeing for our people. We foster diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace.
  • Ensuring good governance. We embed sustainability and ethical business practices in everything we do.

Vision

We enable more sustainable choices for our customers and drive change throughout the value chain.

Focus areas and key actions

Climate and nature

Value chain
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Reduce emissions in the value chain

  • Near-term scope 1 and 2 reductions by 2034
  • Net zero emissions by 2050
  • Challenge suppliers to set science-based climate targets

Ensure sustainability in the value chain

  • Require all our suppliers from risk countries to be audited for social responsibility
  • Broaden the scope of supplier social responsibility audits by moving from a risk-country approach to a risk-based approach
  • Ensure suppliers' adherence to the K Code of Conduct, sustainability policies, and other relevant standards

Promote biodiversity 

  • Prevent biodiversity losses throughout the value chain by following the biodiversity roadmap
  • Set goals for our biodiversity impacts

Enable sustainable choices for our customers

  • Increase the share of sustainable products of net sales
  • Make sustainable choices attractive through selections, data-based tools and communications

Take care of the water sufficiency

  • Mitigate water scarcity risks in the value chain through responsible water management and by encouraging suppliers to adopt water efficiency targets
  

Enhance circular economy

  • Create new circularity business models
  • Enhance waste management and recycling
  

Our people

Good governance
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Increase the safety and wellbeing of our people

  • Support our people’s health, wellbeing and capabilities

Commit to the K Code of Conduct

  • Strengthen employee commitment to the K Code of Conduct and to increase awareness of it

Foster diversity, equity and inclusion for our employees

  • Diverse and inclusive workplace
  • Equal pay
  • Gender balance on all levels of the organisation


Strengthen sustainability competencies

Automate ESG data processes 


 

 

Key targets and performance indicators

Theme

Target

KPI

2025

 2024

Baseline
2023

Climate

 

We commit to reducing absolute scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 58.8% by 2034 from a 2024 base year

tCO2eq

74,204
tCO2eq

91,135 tCO2eq

 - *

We commit to reducing absolute scope 3 GHG emissions by 35.0% by 2034 from a 2024 base year

tCO2eq

7,768,187
tCO2eq

6,941,006 tCO2eq

- *

Value chain

 

 

Ensuring social responsibility in the
directly imported goods from high-risk countries by achieving 100%
appropriate audit level

% of factories of
direct high-risk
country suppliers
audited

98%

91%  

97% 

 

Increasing the proportion of sustainable products of net sales

 

% of sustainable products in net sales

 

Grocery trade: -

Building and technical trade: -

Car trade: - 

(figures not yet available)

Grocery trade: 43%

Building and technical trade: 22%

Car trade: 41%

Grocery trade: 40%

Building and technical trade: 18%

Car trade: 31%

Our people

 

 

 

Increasing the share of women in top
management to 40% and in middle
management to 45% by 2030

 

 

% of
underrepresented
gender in top
management

27.8%
women 

27.7%
women

28.4%
women

% of
underrepresented
gender in middle
management

28.2%
women

32.8%
women

36.1%
women

Good governance

Employee commitment to the K Code of Conduct

%

94%

85%

80.5%

*Kesko has set 2024 as the base year for emission calculation, and therefore no comparison data is provided for years prior to that.

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