In 2019, climate change dominated the public debate more than ever before. After the IPCC published its Special Report the call to action was reinforced: in order to reduce the risk to keep the earth from becoming an inhabitable planet in the long term, it is vital to stay within the boundary of 1,5° C global warming. For Fenix Outdoor, it is most important to start taking action in our own sphere of influence first. However, to leverage our positive impact even more and guide our supply chain as well as the industry, we decided to join The UN Fashion Industry Charter for ClimateAction and STICA. Both initiatives are in line with our climate strategy and support our goal to reduce our emissions by 40 % (all Scopes) until 2025. In 2019, our overall carbon dioxide equivalents (t CO2e) amounted to 14 740 t CO2e (2018: 9 292 t).

We report our emissions for all Scopes in line with the GHG protocol. These data are based on reported activity data by the Fenix Outdoor entities and include Scope 1 and 2 emissions (including leakage from refrigerants), as well as a range of our indirect emissions from shipments, business travel, commutes, wastes, and purchased products and services (Scope 3). This year we captured more Scope 3 emissions than in previous years and will continue to do so in 2020. The commuting data have been obtained anonymously through a group-wide commuting survey. Our main emission sources lie in the supply chain, mainly coming from purchased goods and services (raw materials cradle-to-gate) and up- and downstream transport and distribution.

In 2019, we have been able to reduce our CO2 footprint in Scopes 1 and 2, although we opened several stores and had further economic growth. We have continued to switch to LED lighting and extended the use of green energy. In Vierkirchen, Germany, the location is partly heated with biogas from a neighboring organic farm. We also used the renewable energy certificate scheme to make our electricity consumption in North America greener. Thus, we did not need to compensate nor offset emissions for our US and Canadian operations. Emission reduction efforts in 2019 include but are not limited to:
- Ongoing purchase of renewable energy where possible, as well as the purchase of Energy attribute certificates (EACs) where we cannot have a direct contract with a supplier.
- Decrease of unused or unnecessary IT infrastructure in the store environment.
- Implementing a guideline for stores and other locations to take energy efficiency measures
- Less raw material consumption through optimization of core processes.

Retrofitting of our stores with more efficient lighting, smart facility heating and cooling concepts are all standard procedures.