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Builiding of climate resilience
Metsä Group’s climate transition plan provides a strategic approach that forges climate and nature together – but what does this mean, exactly?
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Metsä Group has just published its very first climate transition plan, in February 2025. What’s the significance of this? The climate transition plan provides a comprehensive description of our climate targets and climate work, includ- ing both strategic and operational perspectives. The work is spurred on by new EU sustainability legislation which emphasises the significance of transition plans. And Metsä Board has its own plan, too? That’s right. Metsä Board has published a transition plan which is aligned with Metsä Group’s climate transition plan. Both plans cover the period until 2030. The climate challenge mandates us to build resilience – how do we go about this? Building resilience in a changing climate requires a strategic approach that links climate and nature. We achieve this via actions such as the reduction of fossil CO2 emissions, strengthening carbon sequestration and biodiversity in for- ests, developing technical capture of bio-based CO2, and making our mills both fossil-free and resource-efficient. When did Metsä Group first come up with strategic sustainability targets? We set strategic 2030 sustainability targets for the first time in 2018. Many are related to climate change mitigation. For example, one of the targets is to have fossil-free mills by 2030. This means that Metsä Group’s mills won’t use fossil energy or fossil fuels in their own production, and that Scopes 1 and 2 fossil carbon dioxide emissions will be zero.
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MAIJA POHJAKALLIO • Joined Metsä Group as VP, Climate and Circular Economy, in August 2021 • Previously worked at Sulapac, Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT and Chemical Industry Federation of Finland • Holds a doctoral degree in physical chemistry and electrochemistry from Aalto University • Has written several textbook chapters and teaches about sustainability and the circular economy of materials at the University of Turku • Is excited about promoting the wellbeing of people and the planet by combining science and business with sustainable development and the circular economy
What benefit does the climate transition plan bring to Metsä’s customers?
The plan delivers transparency and tangible actions that support the customer in reaching their own climate tar- gets. After all, it’s the power of collaboration that will make the transition happen.
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