Sustainability & Engagement
Bringing people and nature closer together
We all feel the consequences that climate change is bringing to our daily lives and realise that our behaviour has an impact on the environment. Sustainability is at the centre of our strategy, simply because gardening is all about nature. As the leading gardening brand, it is our responsibility to act consciously. As a company within the Husqvarna Group, GARDENA is involved in the group-wide sustainability program “Sustainovate”, whose designation combines the terms "Sustainability" and "Innovation". The strategic approach of this program is to promote innovations that bring people and nature closer together.
Aligning with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
Through our engagement, we are supporting a wide range of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which demonstrate a 17-point plan for ending extreme poverty, fighting inequality and injustice and protecting the planet up to 2030. Achieving these global goals requires significant effort at all levels of society, not least in business, which has a critical role to play as a change agent. At Husqvarna Group, our biggest contributions to the goals lie in reducing the negative impacts of operations, contributing to positive change along the value chain and engaging in society at large.
Our engagement for a better future
UN Global Compact
The United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies to align their operations and strategies with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and to take actions that advance societal goals, such as the Sustainable Development Goals.
Science-Based Targets
The initiative supports companies in defining their own science-based targets for emission reduction in accordance with the Paris Agreement.
Business Ambition 1.5 °C
The Business Ambition 1.5 °C is an initiative of the UN Global Compact. The initiative calls on companies to do their part in limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 °C, which in turn requires them to set science-based emission targets.
Carbon Disclosure Project
CDP is a not-for-profit organisation that runs a global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The system has been in operation for over 20 years.
Climate Leadership Coalition
The Climate Leadership Coalition is a non-profit climate business network in Europe. The members strive to be among the leaders of their respective fields in terms of climate change mitigation ambition. It supports climate leaders by sharing best practice, policy approaches and strategies and by participating in regional and global policy development.
Sustainovate – our sustainability program
This is Sustainovate – our plan to lead our industry in the shift to a resource-smart economy. Through Sustainovate, we are challenging ourselves and inspiring others to transform and are pioneering solutions for step-change efficiency and smarter use of resources.
Sustainovate captures three opportunities for change — Carbon, Circular and People — and three targets to 2025 that are driving the way we do business. They bring us opportunities to support the shift to a low-carbon energy mix, to pioneer ways to deliver great value to customers through circular economy solutions, and to inspire and engage our customers and employees to scale our positive impacts.
What we have achieved as Husqvarna Group
Our targets for the year-end of 2025 serve as a guide for measuring the difference we make. Learn more about the current status of achieving our targets.
Carbon: -44% absolute reduction in CO2 emissions since 2015 (01.01.2020-01.01.2024)
Circular: 27 circular innovations launched so far (01.01.2020-01.01.2024)
People: 2.4 million consumers and colleagues reached so far (01.01.2020-01.01.2024)
Let's ReTh!nk together
How you can contribute
Discover how you can make a difference
Keen gardeners all around the world work hard to create and maintain vibrant green spaces. In doing so, they also promote biodiversity, health, clean air, and an improved local climate.
Gardens, balconies and terraces, but also house and garage roofs, backyards, vertically planted walls or a small spot on the windowsill or stairs are flowering gifts for nature and people. Everyone and every little planted spot can contribute.
Green spaces need water to flourish. Using our precious resource wisely is key – because every drop counts.
Make way for more green
Explore how you can create green spaces and how to take care for them in a mindful way by using resources such as water wisely.
Our milestones
Sustainability was always an integral part in our activities. Explore our milestones in our company's history.
- 1977: GARDENA combisystem: one handle - many attachments
- 1979: No use of lacquer paints to avoid pollutants
- 1982: Multi-Click: one motor for eight different connection devices
- 1990: Interchangeable battery system V12: one battery for many devices
- 2020: Power for All Alliance: one battery for different tools across different brands
- 2022: EcoLine: Products made from recycled materials
- 1985: First launch: irrigation computer with moisture sensors for accurate determination of water requirements
- 1990: Efficient use of water with the first generation of Micro-Drip-System
- 2006: Soil moisture sensors with improved technology
- 2016: GARDENA smart system: efficient watering through intelligent control
- 2020: GARDENA smart system: optimised irrigation schedules by taking local weather forecast & sunrise and sunset times into account
- Annual certification according to ISO 9001
- Since 2005: FSC® chain of custody certification
- Since 2005: Environmental management according to ISO 14001
Since January 2017, the German sites in Ulm, Heuchlingen and Niederstotzingen have been supplied with 100 percent electricity from renewable sources. This status was also achieved at the Czech locations in Třinec in 2017, with Vrbno following in the following year.
Since 2021, 100% of the electricity procured at all Gardena operations sites comes from renewable sources. In 2023, the newly acquired Orbit sites also switched to purchasing 100% green electricity.
Since 2018 GARDENA contributes to UNICEF's worldwide WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) programmes. This will allow UNICEF to provide more than 290,000 children and families with access to clean drinking water by 2023.
GARDENA EcoLine is the first range of high quality gardening tools in the market that is made with significant shares of recycled materials. It consists mainly post-consumer recycled material. The plastic components of each product consist of at least 65 % recycled material. The GARDENA EcoLine has been awarded the German Sustainability Award Design 2022 in the "Vision" category.
Read our sustainability report
As of 2016, Husqvarna Group reports specifically on progress made on Sustainovate, the Husqvarna Group’s approach to integrating sustainability into the business, and its targets to 2025.