Integration of environmental activities in Veoneer Sweden AB Assessment of an implementation of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Industrial ecology (MPTSE), MSc
Publicerad
2022
Författare
Zimmerman, Lukas
Cullberg, Axel
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The integration of environmental activities with Veoneer as case company and the
Greenhouse Gas Protocol as case activity was assessed. Veoneer’s identity as manufacturing
company was defined to be focused on quality and cost efficiency to
supplying with safety products for enabling safer utilisation of vehicles. The environmental
work is mainly based on compliance-driven reactions to key stakeholder
expectations, while perspectives of the different actors in Veoneer concludes in high
awareness of the need to take a more proactive role. The demand for a further developed
environmental management system and environmental policy was additionally
identified. Both can be combined with environmental measurements which would
support improvements. A path on how to integrate and address the Greenhouse
Gas Protocol within the existing quality approach was identified.
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol as accounting standard for emissions of companies’
whole operational impacts was applied to assess how an implementation can be approached.
For most of the categories, preliminary results could be developed to show
how already existing data and reporting procedures could be used. Scope 1 makes
up 3.05%, scope 2 1.67% and scope 3 95.28% of all emissions, which is in line with
average automotive industry distribution.
An implementation requires the spreading of knowledge related to the benefits of
environmental work in order to reach a critical mass to encourage a top-down directive.
The protocol’s function as an environmental accounting tool contributes to
the company’s ability to measure environmental performances. The natural involvement
of employees and business partners in the data collection supports changing
processes as well as it creates ripple effects in the value chain.
However, the correlation between financial and environmental accounting for the
GHG Protocol application needs to be assessed further to produce even more convincing
knowledge.
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Greenhouse Gas Protocol , Corporate sustainability , Environmental accounting , Environmental alignment , Veoneer Sweden , Change management , Sustainable leadership , Project communication , ESG , CSR