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The Climate Solutions movement!
In 2025 we qualified as a climate solutions company under the CSF and if this sounds a little like us bragging, it’s probably because we are. A little.
But actually, even though we’re proud of being a company that offers climate solutions, it’s not enough. To reach societal net zero globally and stop climate change, we need scaling within the food industry and beyond. More products, services and companies need to become climate solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at global scale, and if you want to find out how to do it, you should click the button our web designer conveniently positioned close to this paragraph.
What’s a climate solution?
A climate solution is a product or service that meets a need in society, contributes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and has at least 50% lower climate impact than the relevant market comparison.
But, and this is important, a solution in one environmental area shouldn't "shift" burden into other areas. Therefore, a true climate solution should also meet some safeguards for burden shifting, this include not contributing to extending the life of fossil fuel-dependent technologies and doing no significant harm to water resources, pollution control and biodiversity.
Why a climate solution framework?
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There are solutions to fight the climate crises —things like green steel, low-carbon cement, renewable energy and plant-based food— but many of these solutions are still stuck in the “small-scale” zone. They’re not growing fast enough because there’s confusion around standards, financing, regulations, and whether there’s even enough demand.
The Climate Solutions framework sets well-defined, science-based criteria for what can drive real emissions reductions across society. With this clarity, policymakers and investors can better identify which products and services deserve serious backing and rapid up-scaling. It’s about turning potential into progress.
How our products qualified as climate solutions
The climate footprint of “the relevant market comparison” –in our case the “milk” category we belong to– was estimated, by getting data about the drink types in the category. This data was collected from market insight agencies and retailers, such as Nielsen | Audience Is Everything®, IRI/Circana, ICA Euromonitor International; leads the world in data analytics - Euromonitor.com
Next, the climate footprint of each of those drinks was estimated and combined with their share in each market to get a category average climate footprint. Global standard (ISO 14040/44) conformant LCAs were performed for our key products and markets and their cow counterpart.
It was also proven that Oatly products don’t pose significant harm to other environmental areas such as biodiversity, marine resources, extending the life of fossil fuels, creating pollution, and more. In other words, we’re not shifting the burden of reduced climate footprint on to another important area.
Read more about all the requirements of the ERI CSF.
How did Oatly qualify as a climate
solutions company?
To qualify as a climate solutions company, we had to prove that at least 90% of our revenue comes from climate solutions products, that Oatly as a company has both a public near-term greenhouse gas emissions -GHG target and a net-zero target covering all emissions (scopes 1, 2 and 3). We provide a transition plan together with an annual disclosure progress.
A climate solutions company also have to –and we want to– work more broadly to transform the sector it belongs to. Like, advocating for a sustainable food system transformation by challenging outdated norms and regulations, making it easy to make sustainable food choices, using our voice for change, and transparently declare our products climate footprint. To mention a few things.
Did you find this interesting?
We’re guessing you’re the type of person to be found in the kitchen during parties. So are we! To fuel your discussions about how to set societal-net zero targets as a growing climate solution company, here’s an interesting white paper EcoAct Oatly whitepaper
You should also read our sustainability report.
And here’s our sustainability plan on how we will become even better.