From trees to products: Stora Enso breaks free from non-renewable resources

 Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The team at Stora Enso swaps out non-renewable resources for renewable ones for the sake of both the environment and humankind. They are skilled in producing carbon-storing, recyclable, and regenerating materials that may be planted in new forests while making efficient use of a tree’s entire resource. They hasten the necessary shift to a circular bioeconomy as well. With the subject of “Our Power, Our Planet” for Earth Day 2025, the group is reminded of how important it is to reduce its emissions to support the circularity of our products.

In 2021, Stora Enso aims to align with the 1.5-degree scenario of the Paris Agreement to bolster the renewable character of its materials. By 2030, they want to cut the emissions from their purchased energy and direct activities (Scope 1 and 2) in half from the baseline of 2019. In 2024, the group achieved a 53% reduction in these emissions, marking the first time this target was met. Indirect Scope 3 emissions in the value chain have a comparable goal, with a 39% reduction by 2024.

This accomplishment demonstrates their sustained dedication to proactive decarbonisation initiatives through a variety of smaller initiatives, including:

• Purchasing and updating manufacturing machinery to increase resource efficiency
• Making the production switch to biofuels
• Utilising sustainable energy sources
• Using hydrogen fuels, energy, and biogas to power our vehicles
• Creating methods to track our performance to sustain and enhance the group’s advancement

Here are a few specific instances: The first fossil-CO2 emission-free board mill in Sweden was the Fors mill in 2022, and the first fossil-CO2 emission-free sawmill was the Ala mill in 2024 (Scope 1&2 for both).

Moving forward with circular design and teamwork
This is just the beginning of Stora Enso’s efforts to reduce emissions. In addition to working with its suppliers to cut its emissions in half throughout the value chain, it aims to enhance its performance.
To keep the carbon stored for as long as possible, they design for recycling and lengthy lifecycles, and they are constantly innovating for greater resource efficiency. As they grow, they continue to absorb carbon while experiencing. All of this demonstrates how some tiny acts taken in concert can have a significant effect.

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