Our Sustainability Strategy 2030 focuses on the planetary boundaries and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). What's new is that the 2030 strategy is identical across the entire Migros Group. To maximise the impact, all Migros Group companies are moving in the same direction and working towards the same goals.
Our ambition
Everything we do focuses on people and nature. We are committed to responsible use of natural resources, climate protection and social justice. In so doing, we are creating a liveable future for both ourselves and future generations.
By having an overarching sustainability strategy, we are pooling all of the Migros Group’s resources to create a more sustainable and fairer future together.
Christopher Rohrer, Head of the Sustainability & Economic Policy Division
What we are focusing on
Nature
By 2050, we want no part of the Migros Group to emit any more greenhouse gasses. At the same time, we want to protect and regenerate land-based, aquatic and oceanic ecosystems and invest significantly in closing our cycles in order to drive forward the protection of nature and the climate.
Climate
We will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in our own operations and along our value chains to net zero by 2050.
Specifically, this means:
We will cut greenhouse gas emissions in our own operations by 70.6% compared to 2019 levels by 2030, and by 90% by 2050.
We will achieve this in part because we've been obtaining all of our electricity from renewable sources since 2021 and by switching to using only renewable heat and natural refrigerants by 2040.
We will only use renewable-energy drive systems in our goods transport by 2040.
We will reduce energy consumption at our own locations and in our logistics operations by 7% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels.
We have also pledged to neutralise any remaining greenhouse gas emissions long-term from 2050 onwards.
We will cut greenhouse gas emissions across our value chain by 90% compared to 2019 levels by 2050.
By 2026, we will ensure that 67% of non-agricultural (non-FLAG) emissions from procured products and services are covered by our suppliers’ science-based reduction targets.
Furthermore, we will cut the agricultural (FLAG) greenhouse gas emissions of procured products and services by a third of 2019 levels by 2030, and by 72% by 2050.
By the end of 2025, we will define measures and a target for the promotion of a plant-based diet.
We will lower greenhouse gas emissions from our upstream goods transport by 27.5% compared to 2019 levels by 2030.
We will cut the greenhouse gas emissions caused by the use of the products we sell by 46.2% by 2030 (specific sub-target for Migrol).
We have also pledged to neutralise any remaining greenhouse gas emissions long-term from 2050 onwards.
Migros Bank’s climate targets will be published shortly.
Biodiversity
Between now and 2050, we will make a significant contribution towards protecting land-based, aquatic and oceanic biodiversity for the complete regeneration of nature.
Specifically, this means:
We are committed to having deforestation-free supply chainsin our primary risk commodities cocoa, coffee, palm, soya, beef and wood by 2025.
We have set ourselves science-based biodiversity targets in accordance with the SBTN (Science Based Targets Network) for land and water by 2026. Objectives in other categories relevant to the Migros Group (e.g. oceans) are being added in stages. In the meantime, we will continue to report on our progress.
By 2026, Migros Bank will assess its biodiversity risks in accordance with the guidelines of the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures and the FINMA circular entitled "Nature-related Financial Risks". The material risks will then be integrated into its risk management.
Although biodiversity is a new overall goal, we have already promoted various measures to protect biodiversity on land, in water and in oceans. For instance, Migros became the first retail partner of IP-Suisse more than 20 years ago. We're now Switzerland’s largest purchaser of biodiversity-friendly products bearing the ladybird logo. We have already worked to reduce our water footprint in water-critical areas. In so doing, we are basing our activities on water standards such as SPRING and AWS as well as our own local projects, such as strawberry production in southern Spain.
Circular economy
We are working tirelessly to close our cycles by 2050 in order to protect biodiversity and the climate.
Specifically, this means:
Between now and 2030, we will halve food waste in our companies and at stores compared to 2019, and support measures in upstream and downstream value chains. This objective is set out in the industry’s action plan, which we have signed.
By 2030, optimised packaging and less waste from our operations will enable us to cut our greenhouse gas emissions by 10% compared to 2019. In addition, all of our plastic packaging will be 100% recyclable by 2030.
In all, we will save 100,000 tonnes of CO2e between 2025 and 2030 by making some of our products, services and properties recyclable. CO2e is the unit of measurement used to standardise the climate impact of various greenhouse gases, such as methane or nitrous oxide. 100,000 tonnes is roughly equivalent to the annual emissions of 55,000 cars.
People
We offer sustainable products at fair prices, promote conscious consumption and encourage diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities. We fulfil our responsibilities along the entire value chain and aim for transparency.
Product responsibility
We offer all of our customers environmentally, socially and animal-friendly products and services at an affordable price.
Specifically, this means:
We buy all of our products in accordance with our group-wide procurement guidelines on sustainability, which will be revised in 2025. Until then, the existing group requirements will apply.
Marketing & consumption
We empower our customers to be conscious consumers.
Specifically, this means:
By 2030, we will provide our customers with transparent information on how all of our own-brand products and services affect the climate, animal welfare and fish stocks. Additional dimensions are continually being added.
Human rights and working conditions
We place the well-being of people at the centre of our activities and promote diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities.
In specific terms, this means:
Across our value chains, we comply fully with our human rights due diligence obligations in accordance with recognised international regulations and report on our activities transparently.
By 2025, we will define a target to ensure living incomes and wages in defined high-risk supply chains in accordance with international standards.
We will achieve an engagement score of 88% in our employee survey by 2025.
We will maintain an apprentice ratio of at least 3.7% until 2025.
We will increase the share of women in management positions to 45% by 2025.
We will create 130 pre-vocational training places by 2025, thereby promoting social inclusion.