United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) aim to make the world more sustainable by 2030. Building on our core strengths, we have selected five SDGs in particular where we focus on to contribute to the impact for society and ecology. The following are embedded in our DAF Sustainability Framework:
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
We believe in a balance between economic growth and social factors, to grow in a sustainable way and assure future work.
Build a resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.
We are constantly enhancing the efficiency of our organization, processes and materials and adopting clean and environmentally sound technologies in our production processes.
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
We are contributing to this goal by constantly improving our trucks’ safety features and reducing air pollution by investing in innovative technologies.
Ensure responsible consumption and production patterns
We are aware of the value of the materials needed to build a truck. We aim to minimize the volume of required material, increase recycled content and recyclability of our trucks, run a successful remanufacturing program and reduce the residual waste from our production sites.
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact.
We understand the importance of cutting CO2 emissions to protect the climate and preserve the world. Whereas 94% of our CO2 impact is generated by our heavy-duty vehicles on the road, our primary focus is to reduce the CO2 emissions from the use of our total number of trucks delivered in 2030 (scope 3, category 11) by 43% (per ton x km) compared to 2019 (conform, European VECTO legislation). Additionally, we aim to have reduced our combined scope 1 and scope 2 CO2 emissions from our operations by 45% in 2030 (conform European Grean Deal ambitions).