NETHERLANDS - Ikea has launched the first-ever guide on measuring air pollution across value chains at COP27.

The guidance is developed in partnership with Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Climate & Clean Air Coalition (CCAC). Using the guidance, Ikea set a baseline and encourages other businesses to join the Alliance for Clean Air in contributing to clean air and health.

For the first time, a guide is now available for all businesses to make air pollution emission inventories across their value chains. This enables joint action on climate change and air pollution. To make it simple, the guide uses data companies already use to report their greenhouse gas emissions. This enables businesses to better understand their impact on air pollution and unlocks new paths to accelerate climate efforts.

Since the Alliance for Clean Air launch at COP26, Ikea has piloted the standard together with the nine other founding members. This means that Ikea, among other companies, can measure air pollution generated by energy consumption, transport, materials, agriculture, and waste management. The guidance is available for all companies.

“Air pollution impacts the health of the many people across the world. Through the air pollution guidance, we, as businesses, are able to measure our impact and take action to minimize or eliminate it. We hope many other companies will join us and jointly contribute to clean air and health”, says Andreas Rangel Ahrens, Head of Climate, Inter Ikea Group.

Every year, more than 2.4 billion people are exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution, and recent studies also show that even small levels of air pollution harm our health. That the air we breathe is clean is nothing that is taken for granted, so the contribution to a world with clean air is a high priority for Ikea.