Climate Actions

Emission Reductions Achieved by Transmeri Group 2019–2024

Mitigating climate change is one of our Group’s most important environmental responsibility themes and key environmental goals for our stakeholders. We see opportunities to mitigate climate change by continuously improving our operations to be lower-emission, integrating climate considerations into our operational planning and decision-making, and sharing information in our value chain.

Transmeri Group has reduced emissions from electricity and heating (scope 2) by 80 % from 2019 to 2024. This reduction has been achieved by implementing energy efficiency measures and widely transitioning to renewable energy. For example, Transmeri Logistics’ production facility in Vantaa and Kapotek’s production facility in Järvenpää now operate on fossil-free energy. In Estonia, Kaupmees & Ko significantly utilizes renewable electricity produced by its own solar panels in its energy-intensive warehouses and Cash & Carry stores.

We develop and refine our emission calculations annually, and currently, the calculations cover emissions from our own operations and mobility (scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3: self-paid freight, business travel, and commuting, i.e., categories 4, 6, and 7). The total emissions for these in 2024 were 5950 tCO2e, with the largest share caused by freight emissions. Read more about our emission calculations in our latest responsibility report.

We continue the Group’s climate work by identifying new ways to reduce emissions and developing and expanding emission calculations. We monitor changing regulations and stakeholder requirements to respond to them quickly.

Description of Emission Calculation and Reassessment

The group’s emission calculation began in 2019 when the group also set its climate goals, which serve as the baseline year for the calculations. The emission calculation reached full scope in the selected emission categories and companies in 2022.

Transmeri Group’s emission calculation covers emissions from its own operations and mobility (scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3: emission categories 4, 6, and 7). The calculation boundary is based on the Climate Commitment of the Central Chamber of Commerce, where the focus of the calculation is on direct emissions, freight emissions, and personal mobility emissions.

To monitor the development of emissions, the 2019 emissions have been reassessed using the turnover ratio, as full-scale data is not available for the baseline year.

The emissions assessed on time in 2022 cover the entire group except for a few small sales companies. Thus, the calculated emissions provide a reliable and comprehensive picture of the climate impact of the operations. The emission calculation was expanded to all companies in 2023.

** The emissions of A/S Kaupmees & Ko and the Tridens sub-group, which are part of the Kaupmees Group, were not calculated in 2019.
*** The 2019 commuting emissions were initially calculated for Oy Transmeri Group Ab, Banmark Oy, Transmeri Logistics Oy, and Transmeri Oy.
**** The original commuting emissions for the entire group, which were 259 tCO2e in 2019 and 462 tCO2e in 2022, were used in the calculation.

For more information:

Taika Sipponen
Responsibility Manager
Oy Transmeri Group Ab
taika.sipponen@transmeri.fi

Kimmo Koho
CIO and Responsibility Director
Oy Transmeri Group Ab
kimmo.koho@transmeri.fi