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Sustainability Report 2020
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CEO Statement

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Splash saying: Volume of finished goods produced. 2022: 518 million. 2021: 470 million.
Volume of finished goods sold (l): 2022: 502 million. 2021: 421 million.
A bar chart showing the total corporate climate footprint of the last 3 years. 2020 adj.:159727. 221296000. 2022: 301537.

We grew and so did our climate footprint but good news! Our climate impact per produced liter decreased from 2021, so that’s a nice step in the right direction.

A bar chart showing the climate impact per produced liter of the last 3 years. 2020 adj.:0,533 KG CO2e/L. 2021: 0,629KG CO2e/L. 2022: 0,582 KG CO2e/L
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Our three pillars of action

With the guidance laid out under our three pillars, we seek to change the way people eat and the planet is treated.

Want a detailed look at our future plans? Click here.

FUN FACT!

Thanks to better data and information we decided to recalculate our 2020 numbers.
More work for our sustainability team, so, for them maybe a not-so-fun fact! 

Click for more info

100 % renewable
 electricity
  for all Oatly
    factories
    sourced
   for 2022

Sourcing
renewable
 heat energy
   for our
    factories
   is still a
 challenge

Energy intensity
performance
 slightly
 improved
from 2021

Energy
  intensity
    above
     our 2019
    baseline

New factories
=
less OCEAN
shipping
=
reduced carbon footprint FOR TRANSPORTATION

Increased
  emissions
   from
 ingredients

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Speech bubble saying "Nay!"
Speech bubble saying "Nay!"
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21% of products
 and materials
     shipped WITH
      SUStainable
     ground
   transport

Pillar One: Drive a food system shift

We aim to drive a food system shift by restoring carbon, improving biodiversity, and boosting farmers’ income. Here’s what we did in 2022 together with farmers, scientists and other partners to drive a shift toward more sustainable, low-emission practices in oats, our suppliers and packaging.

Sustainable sourcing

We aim to sustainably source all the materials most significant for making our products by 2029. These so called strategic direct materials include oats, rapeseed oil, packaging material, vanilla, coffee, cocoa, coconut oil, palm oil and cane sugar.
Learn more in the full report.

Ingredients

Ingredients accounted for 42% of our corporate climate footprint, with oats as the biggest impact driver, which makes sense since 84% of our total shopping list (by volume) consists of oats. This is a 9% percent increase per produced liter compared with our 2020 baseline.
Learn more >

The FARM  world tour 2022

The Future Agriculture Renovation Movement (FARM) is our program that defines how we work with suppliers and farmers for a more restorative and – trendy word alert – regenerative food system around the world. Here’s what happened in 2022.

Harvester
world map

Canada

We established a strong foundation for our regenerative supply chain. We worked with industry partners to select the best agronomic practices and test GHG measurement platforms and monitoring frameworks to help farmers optimize on-farm practices.

United States

The Midwest US pilot project grew to include 17 farmers, each working in a three-year growing cycle with oats and a cover crop, corn, then soy, and testing ways to lower their GHG footprint in other parts of their rotations, such as by reducing fertilizer. 

United Kingdom

We partnered with 14 farmers who will take part in a pilot project for regenerative sourcing in 2023 to incentivize more sustainable practices on UK oat farms.

Sweden

We collaborated with oat supplier Berte Qvarn and performance management consultancy Improvin’ to map supply-chain-specific GHG emissions, providing data from field to mill in one data system that’s accessible to growers, the miller and Oatly. 

Finland

Together with Wageningen University & Research, University of Helsinki and 10 farmers to explore future-proof food production and inform a radical redesign of farms. 

China

We partnered with the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Yunnan Specialty Coffee Community and supported
10 coffee farms to provide more data and information for sustainable farming. 

Deep dive button

READ MORE ABOUT
THE FARM

ENERGY

Our 2022 Energy intensity, 0.093 kg CO2e per produced liter, is slightly less than the 0.107 kg CO2e per produced liter in 2021 but an increase of 19 percent over 2020. This is in part due to construction and the start-up of new lines and equipment at our factories in Landskrona, Sweden and Millville, New Jersey, United States. Read more >

100% RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY FOR ALL OATLY-OPERATEDFACTORIES!

In 2022, Oatly sourced 100% renewable electricity for the factories we operate directly. When we also include production partners, we sourced approximately 85 percent renewable electricity in total.

21% renewable heat energy

Oatly sourced 21% renewable heat energy for both Oatly-operated production sites and our production partners. In 2022, we joined the Renewable Thermal Collaborative, a multi-company initiative to identify solutions to renewable heat energy.
More information in the
full report.

Supplier
Shout-out

Our warehouse partner in Singapore installed nearly 8,000 solar panels on its rooftop, which generate over 3,400 megawatt hours of green electricity annually. 

WATER USAGE
All Oatly-owned production facilities in 2022 used about 3.5 liters of water per 1 liter of finished Oatly product, that’s about 20 percent lower than our baseline of 4.3 L/L but an increase from 2021.

wreath

Congratulations
to the Millville
factory.

In September 2022, after the New Jersey Water Environment Association inspected the Millville factory’s wastewater treatment, it passed with a perfect score of 100%

100 percent of oat fiber residue repurposed!

We repurposed 100% of our oat fiber residue, our biggest byproduct category, which made up approximately 90 percent of our total production waste and byproducts in 2022. More about waste.

Transportation

Transportation accounted for about 25 percent of our corporate climate footprint in 2022, or approximately 0.147 kg CO2e per produced liter. That’s a comparable transportation-related footprint to our 2020 baseline. In October 2022,

we celebrated the first run of our Einride electric truck fleet in the United States from our Ogden factory. Also in the US, we began moving some of our finished goods via intermodal rail transportation instead of only diesel truck.
Learn more.

THE 2,009PEOPLE STRONGSUSTAINABILITY TEAM

We want every one of our employees to feel like they’re part of the sustainability team. Because it’s through the everyday decisions of every Oatly person that we can reach our sustainability ambitions.

76%

of co-workers say they have team-specific goals contributing to Oatly’s Sustainability Plan and know how to contribute to them.

+64%

of co-workers feel that their manager motivated them to incorporate sustainability into the work they have done to some or large extent.

+74%

of co-workers think that sustainability was among the top priorities for Oatly in the past year.

=

A good foundation from which we can do more to embed sustainability in the organization.
Learn more.

Diversity, equity and inclusion

At Oatly, we want the diversity of our team members to reflect the diversity found in every market in which we operate. In an ideal world, we would measure the same data across each market, but due to legislation, every country differs in the way it collects data. Be sure, we aim to be a company where anyone can feel at home regardless of spiritual beliefs, birth country, race, gender or sexual orientation. To learn more, dive into the standard update

Gender distribution: All employees: Male 52%, Female 48%. Team managers: Male 47%, Female 53%. Executive team: Male 77%, Female 23%. Board: Male 67%, Female 33%.
Safety first

We seek to create a culture of health and safety in which everyone performs at their best and goes home unharmed every day. More about health & safety.

Table showing all safety measures are improving. Fatalities: 0. Lost time injury rate: 0.53. Total recordable incident rate: 1.46. Accidents: 113. Near miss raised: 134. Safety observations raised: 348.
A machine called the amazing cow converter

Most sustainability declarations are about companies' negative impact on the world, but what about the positive impact? We believe that providing products that help empower the plant-based movement through alternatives to cow's dairy is a great way to support more sustainable diets, but how do you measure the impact? We decided to find a way.  
  In 2022 we commissioned a life cycle assessment and got help from Quantis, a leading environmental 

sustainability consultancy, to develop a measurement methodology for emissions saved when consumers switch from cow’s dairy to Oatly. With this method, we used the results of consumer surveys in the US, UK, Sweden, Germany, and China to estimate the rates of conversion from cow's milk to Oatly, and multiplied those rates by our annual sales volumes to estimate the number of liters of cow’s milk Oatly has helped convert and the amount of CO2e saved.

Read out & More graphs button
splash
Product climate footprint declaration

We declare the climate impact of many of our products on our packages and the web to give you the power to make informed choices about what to buy when you’re shopping. Of course, it would be better if you could compare the climate footprint of all products in the grocery store just like you can compare the ingredients and the nutritional value, but everyone’s not onboard with that idea yet. In the 

meantime, we are working toward publishing the product climate footprints for all our products. By the end of 2022, 98% of our sales volume in EMEA and 47% in North America included climate declarations. We also started to calculate footprints for products in Australia, but you’ll have to wait for next year’s Sustainability update to read about the results. Learn more

Success

Our petition for mandatory climate declarations in Germany has been recommended to be submitted to the parliament.

Supporting change around the world
Asia

Silent Barista

200 hearing impaired baristas from 10 cities in China trained.

TeaMaster

THE TEAMASTER

Designed for tea shops in Asia.

00:00
00:00
Europe

The new Norm & Al show

What better way to tell the story of plant-based as the new normal than through puppets?

Video previewing "The new Norm&Al show"

Join the Barista train!

The Oatly Barista edition served on Deutsche Bahn trains.

The EU School milk scheme

74,000 signatures for plant-based drink inclusion in schools

No plant-based tax in the Netherlands!

Decision pending.

North America

The big idea grant

7 small coffee businesses received funding for their projects in 2023

exterior of a stumptown cafe

No upcharge for plant-based at Stumptown

Want to
see more
projects?

Click me!

Have you memorized everything?
If not, keep scrolling.

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Sustainability Report 2021
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The Oatly sustainability update
Sustainability Report 2020
An Oatly Legal Department Production:

THE Note
regarding-
forward-
looking-
statements-
BUTTON

button saying "Click this"
00:00
00:00
CEO Statement

Read a CEO statement with less hit factor. 

Splash saying: Volume of finished goods produced. 2022: 518 million. 2021: 470 million.
Volume of finished goods sold (l): 2022: 502 million. 2021: 421 million.
A bar chart showing the total corporate climate footprint of the last 3 years. 2020 adj.:159727. 221296000. 2022: 301537.

We grew and so did our climate footprint but good news! Our climate impact per produced liter decreased from 2021, so that’s a nice step in the right direction.

A bar chart showing the climate impact per produced liter of the last 3 years. 2020 adj.:0,533 KG CO2e/L. 2021: 0,629KG CO2e/L. 2022: 0,582 KG CO2e/L
Arrow pointing right
button saying "More reading & Graphs button"
Our three pillars of action

With the guidance laid out under our three pillars, we seek to change the way people eat and the planet is treated.

Want a detailed look at our future plans? Click here.

FUN FACT!

Thanks to better data and information we decided to recalculate our 2020 numbers.
More work for our sustainability team, so, for them maybe a not-so-fun fact! 

Click for more info

100 % renewable
 electricity
  for all Oatly
    factories
    sourced
   for 2022

Sourcing
renewable
 heat energy
   for our
    factories
   is still a
 challenge

Energy intensity
performance
 slightly
 improved
from 2021

Energy
  intensity
    above
     our 2019
    baseline

New factories
=
less OCEAN
shipping
=
reduced carbon footprint FOR TRANSPORTATION

Increased
  emissions
   from
 ingredients

Speech bubble saying "Hey!"
Speech bubble saying "Hey!"
Speech bubble saying "Hey!"
Speech bubble saying "Nay!"
Speech bubble saying "Nay!"
Speech bubble saying "Nay!"
Speech bubble saying "Hey?"

21% of products
 and materials
     shipped WITH
      SUStainable
     ground
   transport

Pillar One: Drive a food system shift

We aim to drive a food system shift by restoring carbon, improving biodiversity, and boosting farmers’ income. Here’s what we did in 2022 together with farmers, scientists and other partners to drive a shift toward more sustainable, low-emission practices in oats, our suppliers and packaging.

Sustainable sourcing

We aim to sustainably source all the materials most significant for making our products by 2029. These so called strategic direct materials include oats, rapeseed oil, packaging material, vanilla, coffee, cocoa, coconut oil, palm oil and cane sugar.
Learn more in the full report.

Ingredients

Ingredients accounted for 42% of our corporate climate footprint, with oats as the biggest impact driver, which makes sense since 84% of our total shopping list (by volume) consists of oats. This is a 9% percent increase per produced liter compared with our 2020 baseline.
Learn more >

The FARM  world tour 2022

The Future Agriculture Renovation Movement (FARM) is our program that defines how we work with suppliers and farmers for a more restorative and – trendy word alert – regenerative food system around the world. Here’s what happened in 2022.

Harvester
world map

Canada

We established a strong foundation for our regenerative supply chain. We worked with industry partners to select the best agronomic practices and test GHG measurement platforms and monitoring frameworks to help farmers optimize on-farm practices.

United States

The Midwest US pilot project grew to include 17 farmers, each working in a three-year growing cycle with oats and a cover crop, corn, then soy, and testing ways to lower their GHG footprint in other parts of their rotations, such as by reducing fertilizer. 

United Kingdom

We partnered with 14 farmers who will take part in a pilot project for regenerative sourcing in 2023 to incentivize more sustainable practices on UK oat farms.

Sweden

We collaborated with oat supplier Berte Qvarn and performance management consultancy Improvin’ to map supply-chain-specific GHG emissions, providing data from field to mill in one data system that’s accessible to growers, the miller and Oatly. 

Finland

Together with Wageningen University & Research, University of Helsinki and 10 farmers to explore future-proof food production and inform a radical redesign of farms. 

China

We partnered with the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Yunnan Specialty Coffee Community and supported
10 coffee farms to provide more data and information for sustainable farming. 

Deep dive button

READ MORE ABOUT
THE FARM

ENERGY

Our 2022 Energy intensity, 0.093 kg CO2e per produced liter, is slightly less than the 0.107 kg CO2e per produced liter in 2021 but an increase of 19 percent over 2020. This is in part due to construction and the start-up of new lines and equipment at our factories in Landskrona, Sweden and Millville, New Jersey, United States. Read more >

100% RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY FOR ALL OATLY-OPERATEDFACTORIES!

In 2022, Oatly sourced 100% renewable electricity for the factories we operate directly. When we also include production partners, we sourced approximately 85 percent renewable electricity in total.

21% renewable heat energy

Oatly sourced 21% renewable heat energy for both Oatly-operated production sites and our production partners. In 2022, we joined the Renewable Thermal Collaborative, a multi-company initiative to identify solutions to renewable heat energy.
More information in the
full report.

Supplier
Shout-out

Our warehouse partner in Singapore installed nearly 8,000 solar panels on its rooftop, which generate over 3,400 megawatt hours of green electricity annually. 

WATER USAGE
All Oatly-owned production facilities in 2022 used about 3.5 liters of water per 1 liter of finished Oatly product, that’s about 20 percent lower than our baseline of 4.3 L/L but an increase from 2021.

wreath

Congratulations
to the Millville
factory.

In September 2022, after the New Jersey Water Environment Association inspected the Millville factory’s wastewater treatment, it passed with a perfect score of 100%

100 percent of oat fiber residue repurposed!

We repurposed 100% of our oat fiber residue, our biggest byproduct category, which made up approximately 90 percent of our total production waste and byproducts in 2022. More about waste.

Transportation

Transportation accounted for about 25 percent of our corporate climate footprint in 2022, or approximately 0.147 kg CO2e per produced liter. That’s a comparable transportation-related footprint to our 2020 baseline. In October 2022,

we celebrated the first run of our Einride electric truck fleet in the United States from our Ogden factory. Also in the US, we began moving some of our finished goods via intermodal rail transportation instead of only diesel truck.
Learn more.

THE 2,009PEOPLE STRONGSUSTAINABILITY TEAM

We want every one of our employees to feel like they’re part of the sustainability team. Because it’s through the everyday decisions of every Oatly person that we can reach our sustainability ambitions.

76%

of co-workers say they have team-specific goals contributing to Oatly’s Sustainability Plan and know how to contribute to them.

+64%

of co-workers feel that their manager motivated them to incorporate sustainability into the work they have done to some or large extent.

+74%

of co-workers think that sustainability was among the top priorities for Oatly in the past year.

=

A good foundation from which we can do more to embed sustainability in the organization.
Learn more.

Diversity, equity and inclusion

At Oatly, we want the diversity of our team members to reflect the diversity found in every market in which we operate. In an ideal world, we would measure the same data across each market, but due to legislation, every country differs in the way it collects data. Be sure, we aim to be a company where anyone can feel at home regardless of spiritual beliefs, birth country, race, gender or sexual orientation. To learn more, dive into the standard update

Gender distribution: All employees: Male 52%, Female 48%. Team managers: Male 47%, Female 53%. Executive team: Male 77%, Female 23%. Board: Male 67%, Female 33%.
Safety first

We seek to create a culture of health and safety in which everyone performs at their best and goes home unharmed every day. More about health & safety.

Table showing all safety measures are improving. Fatalities: 0. Lost time injury rate: 0.53. Total recordable incident rate: 1.46. Accidents: 113. Near miss raised: 134. Safety observations raised: 348.
A machine called the amazing cow converter

Most sustainability declarations are about companies' negative impact on the world, but what about the positive impact? We believe that providing products that help empower the plant-based movement through alternatives to cow's dairy is a great way to support more sustainable diets, but how do you measure the impact? We decided to find a way.  
  In 2022 we commissioned a life cycle assessment and got help from Quantis, a leading environmental 

sustainability consultancy, to develop a measurement methodology for emissions saved when consumers switch from cow’s dairy to Oatly. With this method, we used the results of consumer surveys in the US, UK, Sweden, Germany, and China to estimate the rates of conversion from cow's milk to Oatly, and multiplied those rates by our annual sales volumes to estimate the number of liters of cow’s milk Oatly has helped convert and the amount of CO2e saved.

Read out & More graphs button
splash
Product climate footprint declaration

We declare the climate impact of many of our products on our packages and the web to give you the power to make informed choices about what to buy when you’re shopping. Of course, it would be better if you could compare the climate footprint of all products in the grocery store just like you can compare the ingredients and the nutritional value, but everyone’s not onboard with that idea yet. In the 

meantime, we are working toward publishing the product climate footprints for all our products. By the end of 2022, 98% of our sales volume in EMEA and 47% in North America included climate declarations. We also started to calculate footprints for products in Australia, but you’ll have to wait for next year’s Sustainability update to read about the results. Learn more

Success

Our petition for mandatory climate declarations in Germany has been recommended to be submitted to the parliament.

Supporting change around the world
Asia

Silent Barista

200 hearing impaired baristas from 10 cities in China trained.

TeaMaster

THE TEAMASTER

Designed for tea shops in Asia.

00:00
00:00
Europe

The new Norm & Al show

What better way to tell the story of plant-based as the new normal than through puppets?

Video previewing "The new Norm&Al show"

Join the Barista train!

The Oatly Barista edition served on Deutsche Bahn trains.

The EU School milk scheme

74,000 signatures for plant-based drink inclusion in schools

No plant-based tax in the Netherlands!

Decision pending.

North America

The big idea grant

7 small coffee businesses received funding for their projects in 2023

exterior of a stumptown cafe

No upcharge for plant-based at Stumptown

Want to
see more
projects?

Click me!

Have you memorized everything?
If not, keep scrolling.

invisible
invisible

Scroll for
fun-sized
version! 

Click for full update written in detailed, legally correct language!
Sustainability Report 2021
Hand  holding a sign that says glossary
The Oatly sustainability update
Sustainability Report 2020
An Oatly Legal Department Production:

THE Note
regarding-
forward-
looking-
statements-
BUTTON

button saying "Click this"
00:00
00:00
CEO Statement

Read a CEO statement with less hit factor. 

Splash saying: Volume of finished goods produced. 2022: 518 million. 2021: 470 million.
Volume of finished goods sold (l): 2022: 502 million. 2021: 421 million.
A bar chart showing the total corporate climate footprint of the last 3 years. 2020 adj.:159727. 221296000. 2022: 301537.

We grew and so did our climate footprint but good news! Our climate impact per produced liter decreased from 2021, so that’s a nice step in the right direction.

A bar chart showing the climate impact per produced liter of the last 3 years. 2020 adj.:0,533 KG CO2e/L. 2021: 0,629KG CO2e/L. 2022: 0,582 KG CO2e/L
Arrow pointing right
button saying "More reading & Graphs button"
Our three pillars of action

With the guidance laid out under our three pillars, we seek to change the way people eat and the planet is treated.

Want a detailed look at our future plans? Click here.

FUN FACT!

Thanks to better data and information we decided to recalculate our 2020 numbers.
More work for our sustainability team, so, for them maybe a not-so-fun fact! 

Click for more info

100 % renewable
 electricity
  for all Oatly
    factories
    sourced
   for 2022

Sourcing
renewable
 heat energy
   for our
    factories
   is still a
 challenge

Energy intensity
performance
 slightly
 improved
from 2021

Energy
  intensity
    above
     our 2019
    baseline

New factories
=
less OCEAN
shipping
=
reduced carbon footprint FOR TRANSPORTATION

Increased
  emissions
   from
 ingredients

Speech bubble saying "Hey!"
Speech bubble saying "Hey!"
Speech bubble saying "Hey!"
Speech bubble saying "Nay!"
Speech bubble saying "Nay!"
Speech bubble saying "Nay!"
Speech bubble saying "Hey?"

21% of products
 and materials
     shipped WITH
      SUStainable
     ground
   transport

Pillar One: Drive a food system shift

We aim to drive a food system shift by restoring carbon, improving biodiversity, and boosting farmers’ income. Here’s what we did in 2022 together with farmers, scientists and other partners to drive a shift toward more sustainable, low-emission practices in oats, our suppliers and packaging.

Sustainable sourcing

We aim to sustainably source all the materials most significant for making our products by 2029. These so called strategic direct materials include oats, rapeseed oil, packaging material, vanilla, coffee, cocoa, coconut oil, palm oil and cane sugar.
Learn more in the full report.

Ingredients

Ingredients accounted for 42% of our corporate climate footprint, with oats as the biggest impact driver, which makes sense since 84% of our total shopping list (by volume) consists of oats. This is a 9% percent increase per produced liter compared with our 2020 baseline.
Learn more >

The FARM  world tour 2022

The Future Agriculture Renovation Movement (FARM) is our program that defines how we work with suppliers and farmers for a more restorative and – trendy word alert – regenerative food system around the world. Here’s what happened in 2022.

Harvester
world map

Canada

We established a strong foundation for our regenerative supply chain. We worked with industry partners to select the best agronomic practices and test GHG measurement platforms and monitoring frameworks to help farmers optimize on-farm practices.

United States

The Midwest US pilot project grew to include 17 farmers, each working in a three-year growing cycle with oats and a cover crop, corn, then soy, and testing ways to lower their GHG footprint in other parts of their rotations, such as by reducing fertilizer. 

United Kingdom

We partnered with 14 farmers who will take part in a pilot project for regenerative sourcing in 2023 to incentivize more sustainable practices on UK oat farms.

Sweden

We collaborated with oat supplier Berte Qvarn and performance management consultancy Improvin’ to map supply-chain-specific GHG emissions, providing data from field to mill in one data system that’s accessible to growers, the miller and Oatly. 

Finland

Together with Wageningen University & Research, University of Helsinki and 10 farmers to explore future-proof food production and inform a radical redesign of farms. 

China

We partnered with the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Yunnan Specialty Coffee Community and supported
10 coffee farms to provide more data and information for sustainable farming. 

Deep dive button

READ MORE ABOUT
THE FARM

ENERGY

Our 2022 Energy intensity, 0.093 kg CO2e per produced liter, is slightly less than the 0.107 kg CO2e per produced liter in 2021 but an increase of 19 percent over 2020. This is in part due to construction and the start-up of new lines and equipment at our factories in Landskrona, Sweden and Millville, New Jersey, United States. Read more >

100% RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY FOR ALL OATLY-OPERATEDFACTORIES!

In 2022, Oatly sourced 100% renewable electricity for the factories we operate directly. When we also include production partners, we sourced approximately 85 percent renewable electricity in total.

21% renewable heat energy

Oatly sourced 21% renewable heat energy for both Oatly-operated production sites and our production partners. In 2022, we joined the Renewable Thermal Collaborative, a multi-company initiative to identify solutions to renewable heat energy.
More information in the
full report.

Supplier
Shout-out

Our warehouse partner in Singapore installed nearly 8,000 solar panels on its rooftop, which generate over 3,400 megawatt hours of green electricity annually. 

WATER USAGE
All Oatly-owned production facilities in 2022 used about 3.5 liters of water per 1 liter of finished Oatly product, that’s about 20 percent lower than our baseline of 4.3 L/L but an increase from 2021.

wreath

Congratulations
to the Millville
factory.

In September 2022, after the New Jersey Water Environment Association inspected the Millville factory’s wastewater treatment, it passed with a perfect score of 100%

100 percent of oat fiber residue repurposed!

We repurposed 100% of our oat fiber residue, our biggest byproduct category, which made up approximately 90 percent of our total production waste and byproducts in 2022. More about waste.

Transportation

Transportation accounted for about 25 percent of our corporate climate footprint in 2022, or approximately 0.147 kg CO2e per produced liter. That’s a comparable transportation-related footprint to our 2020 baseline. In October 2022,

we celebrated the first run of our Einride electric truck fleet in the United States from our Ogden factory. Also in the US, we began moving some of our finished goods via intermodal rail transportation instead of only diesel truck.
Learn more.

THE 2,009PEOPLE STRONGSUSTAINABILITY TEAM

We want every one of our employees to feel like they’re part of the sustainability team. Because it’s through the everyday decisions of every Oatly person that we can reach our sustainability ambitions.

76%

of co-workers say they have team-specific goals contributing to Oatly’s Sustainability Plan and know how to contribute to them.

+64%

of co-workers feel that their manager motivated them to incorporate sustainability into the work they have done to some or large extent.

+74%

of co-workers think that sustainability was among the top priorities for Oatly in the past year.

=

A good foundation from which we can do more to embed sustainability in the organization.
Learn more.

Diversity, equity and inclusion

At Oatly, we want the diversity of our team members to reflect the diversity found in every market in which we operate. In an ideal world, we would measure the same data across each market, but due to legislation, every country differs in the way it collects data. Be sure, we aim to be a company where anyone can feel at home regardless of spiritual beliefs, birth country, race, gender or sexual orientation. To learn more, dive into the standard update

Gender distribution: All employees: Male 52%, Female 48%. Team managers: Male 47%, Female 53%. Executive team: Male 77%, Female 23%. Board: Male 67%, Female 33%.
Safety first

We seek to create a culture of health and safety in which everyone performs at their best and goes home unharmed every day. More about health & safety.

Table showing all safety measures are improving. Fatalities: 0. Lost time injury rate: 0.53. Total recordable incident rate: 1.46. Accidents: 113. Near miss raised: 134. Safety observations raised: 348.
A machine called the amazing cow converter

Most sustainability declarations are about companies' negative impact on the world, but what about the positive impact? We believe that providing products that help empower the plant-based movement through alternatives to cow's dairy is a great way to support more sustainable diets, but how do you measure the impact? We decided to find a way.  
  In 2022 we commissioned a life cycle assessment and got help from Quantis, a leading environmental 

sustainability consultancy, to develop a measurement methodology for emissions saved when consumers switch from cow’s dairy to Oatly. With this method, we used the results of consumer surveys in the US, UK, Sweden, Germany, and China to estimate the rates of conversion from cow's milk to Oatly, and multiplied those rates by our annual sales volumes to estimate the number of liters of cow’s milk Oatly has helped convert and the amount of CO2e saved.

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Product climate footprint declaration

We declare the climate impact of many of our products on our packages and the web to give you the power to make informed choices about what to buy when you’re shopping. Of course, it would be better if you could compare the climate footprint of all products in the grocery store just like you can compare the ingredients and the nutritional value, but everyone’s not onboard with that idea yet. In the 

meantime, we are working toward publishing the product climate footprints for all our products. By the end of 2022, 98% of our sales volume in EMEA and 47% in North America included climate declarations. We also started to calculate footprints for products in Australia, but you’ll have to wait for next year’s Sustainability update to read about the results. Learn more

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Our petition for mandatory climate declarations in Germany has been recommended to be submitted to the parliament.

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Asia

Silent Barista

200 hearing impaired baristas from 10 cities in China trained.

TeaMaster

THE TEAMASTER

Designed for tea shops in Asia.

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Europe

The new Norm & Al show

What better way to tell the story of plant-based as the new normal than through puppets?

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Join the Barista train!

The Oatly Barista edition served on Deutsche Bahn trains.

The EU School milk scheme

74,000 signatures for plant-based drink inclusion in schools

No plant-based tax in the Netherlands!

Decision pending.

North America

The big idea grant

7 small coffee businesses received funding for their projects in 2023

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No upcharge for plant-based at Stumptown

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