Target outcome
NCC’s sustainability targets and outcomes are described in more detail in our sustainability report.
Sustainability targets and outcome
NCC has Group-wide targets within two impact areas: Health and safety and Climate and energy. Furthermore, the business areas set operations-specific sustainability targets.
The sustainability targets are part of NCC’s strategy, and are followed up and reported annually. In our annual report, you can read more about this year’s outcome and how we work towards achieving the targets.
Our long-term goals are complemented by a selection of the UN’s global sustainable development goals. Learn more about how NCC is affected by these global goals here.
Health and safety
NCC shall have a safe, secure and healthy work environment. NCC's long-term objective is to completely eliminate accidents with a serious or fatal outcome, and to reduce the total number of accidents.
| Key performance indicator | Target 2022 |
Outcome 2022 | Interim target 2023 | Target 2026 |
| LTIF4* |
3.0 | 4.1 | 2.75 | 2.0 |
*Work related accidents with over four calendar days absence per one million work hours for NCC’s employees.
Progress Comment
The accident frequency rate for 2022 ended at 4.1, which means the target was not achieved. Some business areas succeeded to lower the numbers during 2022, while others increased the accident rate. At the same time we can see a continuous downward going trend regarding serious incidents, which were lowered again during 2022.
Examples of implemented and ongoing actions
- Training in high-risk areas, behavior and culture, and risk assessment.
- Improved routines for job preparation and safety briefings.
Climate and energy
NCC strives to eliminate GHG emissions from the entire value chain, increase energy efficiency and enable adaption to climate change. NCC´s target is to become climate neutral by 2045.
NCC's own emissions
| Key performance indicator | Target | Outcome 2022 |
| Reduction of CO2e tons/SEK M (Scope 1 and 2). |
-60 percent by 2030 compared with base year 2015 |
-52 percent |
Scope 1: Emissions related to fuel consumption in asphalt plants, and from own vehicles and machinery.
Scope 2: Emissions related to the production of electricity, district heating and district cooling used in the operations.
Progress Comment
Emissions related to Scope 1 and 2 have been reduced by 52 percent since 2015. Emissions related to purchases of electricity, district heating and district cooling declined during the year. The share of renewable electricity remains high. The share of renewable fuels also increased during the year. In total, a reduction in scope 1 is seen due to a reduction in the total amount of purchased fuels, as well as an increase in the proportion of purchased renewable fuels.
Examples of implemented and ongoing actions:
- Switching from fossil fuels to renewable fuels in asphalt plants, machinery, and vehicles.
- Use of renewable electricity throughout operations.
NCC's value chain emissions
| Key performance indicator | Target |
| Reduction of kilograms of CO2e/purchased volume from concrete, asphalt, steel, and transportation (Scope 3). | -50 percent by 2030 compared with base year 2015 |
Scope 3: Indirect emissions from purchased material and external services, travel, subcontractors’ vehicles and machinery and transportation, as well as demolition of the Group’s products and waste.
Outcome 2022
| Ready-mix concrete1) | Asphalt1) | Steel reinforcement1) | Transportation2) |
| -16 percent |
-31 percent | -38 percent | − |
1) To date, this metric refers only to ready-mix concrete, internally purchased asphalt and steel reinforcement.
2) Emissions from transportations are not reported for 2022.
Progress Comment
In Scope 3 emissions NCC has four focus areas for reduction of emissions: Concrete, steel, asphalt and transportation. Today we are measuring scope 3 emissions for parts of this scope, ie ready-made concrete, steel reinforcement and internally purchased asphalt. Work is under way to measure emissions from transportation. NCC’s ambition is to include more products in the above-mentioned categories, as well as additional categories, in order to steadily cover an even larger share of the Group’s Scope 3 emissions.
Examples of implemented and ongoing actions:
- Continue the ongoing work with the group-wide concrete roadmap and expand the data collection from only be ready-mix concrete.
- Replace fossil bitumen with bio-resins in asphalt.
- Well-informed purchasing from producers who provide steel with a lower climate impact.
- Optimizing the logistics chains and increasing the efficiency of transportation. Map and collect quality-assured data on transportation.
