Environment

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Together with our brands, we are strongly committed to reducing the environmental impacts of all our products and operations.  

Our aim is to promote and maintain environmentally responsible practices that are beneficial to our customers, consumers, employees, and the communities in which we operate. We use several environmental management systems to identify, measure, and reduce our environmental impacts.  

The methods we use are both environmentally responsible and economically sound.  

Higg Index Tools help to measure impacts of our supply chain

As a member of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition , we utilize the Higg Index Tools to manage the environmental impacts of our supply chain.  

The Higg Facility and Environmental Module (FEM) is a tool to measure the environmental performance of suppliers. It looks at areas such as 

  • environmental management systems 
  • energy and water consumption 
  • wastewater 
  • air emissions 
  • waste, and 
  • chemical management.

Our apparel and footwear brands use the Higg FEM to engage with suppliers and to empower them to make environmental improvements. We have also started applying the Higg FEM to hardgoods factories. 

We are working with factories on continuous improvement actions to drive environmental performance and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Arc’teryx, Peak Performance, and Salomon also employ the Higg Brand and Retail Module (BRM) to measure their overall sustainability performance. They use the Higg Product Module (PM) tool to assess the environmental footprint of their products, and the Materials Sustainability Index (MSI) tool to define the environmental impact of each material.  

Life-cycle assessments analyze product impacts

In our quest to reduce our environmental impact, many of our brands have also carried out extensive life-cycle assessments (LCA) and analyses of their products and product lines. These LCAs are validated by a third-party to ensure compliance with current and relevant standards.  

Salomon, for example, is committed to improving the environmental footprint of its products through a science-based approach towards the environmental impacts of the materials it uses. Since 2020, Salomon has implemented a wide-reaching program to map its strategic product line impacts through 10 reference life-cycle analyses. This has, in turn, driven its product sustainability strategy decisions. To date, Salomon has mapped mapped 50% of its products through four of its main footwear products, including its innovative circular Index.01 line, and seven of its main winter sports products. These reference LCAs have been conducted with a third party, based on the methodology of the European Product Environmental Footprint. 

Atomic has conducted seven LCAs for alpine skis, touring skis, boots, and cross-country skis. The LCAs are validated by a third-party to comply with ISO 14040 and 14044 standards and are oriented to the EN 15804 standard. 

Using information based on LCAs, Atomic can reduce its impact in future products. Examples include: 

  • 30% reduction in the carbon emissions of Atomic’s new Backland skis by focusing on raw materials and improved design  
  • up to 66% recycled plastic in Atomic’s boot shells, depending on model and color  
  • 77% of boot parts are repairable and the lifespan of products is extended through repair.

Training workshops for vendors and suppliers

The Amer Sports apparel and footwear brands provide training workshops for both finished goods vendors and those who supply our materials. For example, in 2019 we initiated the Supplier Environmental Management Program with our apparel and footwear material suppliers. Meanwhile, a pilot energy efficiency project, launched in partnership with the Apparel Impact Institute’s Clean by Design program was also launched in 2019.

Amer Sports regularly facilitates advanced training workshop for our suppliers to better understand the questions and expectations from Higg FEM module.This enhances the quality of answers for better environmental improvement actions planning.  

Energy efficiency and certified environmental work in our offices

Salomon’s headquarters, the Annecy Design Center in Annecy, France, holds an ISO 14001 certification for its environmental management system, as well as an ISO 50001 certification for its energy management system. The ISO 50001 standard supports organizations in all sectors to use energy more efficiently.

The Amer Sports Winter Sports Equipment manufacturing facility, which also serves as Atomic’s headquarters in Altenmarkt, Austria, is implementing an environmental management system and standardized target setting for the reduction of the facility’s environmental impact, according to ISO 14001 and the Eco-management and Audit Scheme (EMAS).

The Amer Sports corporate office in Helsinki, Finland has received WWF Green Office certification. The Green Office environmental program aims to actively find ways to reduce the environmental footprint of office operations and of the employees working there. 

Key Performance Indicators track our environmental impact

Amer Sports measures its environmental impacts with key performance indicators (KPIs). Progress in the selected KPIs is tracked annually. See the latest figures in our Sustainability report 2022:

Future steps: taking care of biodiversity and saving water

So far, our environmental work has focused primarily on climate change, as well as waste reduction and the environmental impacts of our products and materials.  

In line with our updated sustainability strategy, in 2023 we aim to widen the scope of our work by focusing more on biodiversity and water topics. Our aim is to start gaining a greater understanding of our impacts around these topics, and then go forward in selecting the targets and KPIs at group-level.  

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Climate change

We are targeting to decrease greenhouse gas emissions in our own operations, as well as across our entire supply chain.

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Circular economy

Together with our brands, we are committed to adopting the best practices for building a circular economy.

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