Net Zero Roadmap

As a sustainability focussed business, our aim is to reduce global emissions in the industrial LED-lighting sector through growth in LED-luminaire sales. We now have over 3 million industrial LED lighting fixtures installed in customer sites and we expect that these installations will deliver avoided emissions for our customers of c.2m tonnes over their lifecycle relative to non- LED lighting fixtures.

We have been analysing and reporting Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions since 2020. In 2023 our CDP climate change rating was B. Using this data, we submitted our near term and long-term targets to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) during 2023. The SBTi has validated that the science-based emissions reduction targets conform with the SBTi Criteria and Recommendations (Criteria version 5.1). SBTi has classified our targets as in line with a 1.5°C trajectory and Dialight is now a member of Business Ambition for 1.5°C.

The major tenet of our plan relates to reducing electricity use by:
· continually increasing the efficiency of our products to reduce electricity usage
· researching the use of materials in our products that require less upstream processing
· anticipating the availability of a decarbonised electrical grid as 90% of our total emissions come from customer usage of our products

Dialight
Roadmap

The targets are as follows:

From a base year in 2020
– reduce Scope 1&2 emissions by 38% by 2029
– reduce Scope 3 emissions by 22% by 2029
– to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040

We have applied the principles of the SBTi Corporate Net Zero Standard issued on 28 October 2021.

The Standard provides guidance, criteria, and recommendations to support corporates in setting Net Zero targets through the SBTi. The main objective is to provide a standardised and robust approach for corporates to set Net Zero targets that are aligned with climate science on this topic.

Dialight’s Net Zero plan was approved by the SBTi in December 2023

It includes a combination of two factors:

  • Actions that we can take and directly control
  • Dependencies on other third parties in order to be able to achieve reduction

Short Term
To 2029

Longer Term
2030 to 2040

Upstream activites
  • Review of material choice and source
  • Reduction in fixture size
  • Localisation of supply chain
  • Availability of decarbonised freight transport
  • Review of material choice and source
  • Reduction in fixture size
  • Localisation of supply chain
  • Availability of decarbonised freight transport
Internal operations
  • Reduce energy usage
  • Generate renewable energy internally
  • Reduce business travel
  • Availability of renewable energy at all sites
  • Availability of low carbon business transport
  • Availability of renewable energy at all sites
  • Availability of low carbon business transport
Downstream activities
  • Reassess location of manufacturing sites
  • Availability of decarbonised freight transport
  • Proximity of manufacturing sites to end markets
  • Availability of decarbonised freight transport
Customer usage
  • Increased energy efficiency from design improvements
  • Availability of renewable energy
  • Further energy efficiency from design improvements
  • Availability of renewable energy to all customers