Sustainability

Sustainability at ÅF

Sustainability is part of ÅF’s business strategy and a prerequisite for ÅF’s business as a whole. We connect technologies to create sustainable progress for you.

ÅF’s ambition is to safeguard successful, long-term, sustainable development for you and the company itself in balance between social, environmental and financial interests.

With more than one hundred years of experience in helping our clients to find innovative technical solutions to a multitude of problems ÅF is firmly in the front rank of technical progress. We are proud of our history and what we have achieved and we are confident that we can do more together with our clients all over the world. We are prepared to take on your sustainable challenges.

By integrating the UN Global Compacts principles and the three perspectives of sustainability - Society, Ecology and Economy - in everything we do we believe that we can act as a key enabler for a more sustainable future for you and the people around you.

Sustainability as a business strategy

Wherever and whenever ÅF is involved, we aim to help you to play a part in creating a more sustainable society by finding new solutions to old problems. Our sustainability policies and guidelines support this ambition, ensuring that we work in a fair and transparent way. We practice what we preach.

Every day ÅF strives to improve your life by developing energy-efficient solutions, investments in infrastructure, assignments within various types of energy, projects for industry and more. We connect cities, countries and cultures with bridges, competence networks and mobile solutions. We generate jobs through technology that make companies grow and prosper.

C- company

ÅF has a C-rating according to Oekom Research. Oekom Research AG is one of the world's leading rating agencies in the area of sustainable investment.

ÅF report to CDP

Transparency and reporting is key to advance our sustainability efforts. Therefore, we disclose our carbon emissions to the organisation CDP. CDP supplies the investment community with data from thousands of the world’s largest companies on climate strategy, greenhouse gas emissions, energy use and the business risks connected to climate change.

CDP 2018 Climate Performance Band (ranked on an A-E scale)

The assessment looks at actions during the reporting year that contribute to climate change mitigation, adaptation and transparency. The performance scores are expressed as bands (A, A-, B, C, D, E).