We’ve already made significant progress and continue to work towards targets based on climate science.
Our vision at Ørsted is a world that runs entirely on green energy, and we aspire to be one of the leading catalysts for the transition. That starts with decarbonising our own energy generation and operations (scope 1-2).
We’ve come a long way in reducing our emissions and increasing the green share
of our energy generation.
In 2024, we fulfilled our commitment to phase out coal by closing our last coal-fired combined heat and power plant. This raised our renewable energy share to 97 % and keeps us on track to achieve a 98 % reduction in scope 1-2 emissions intensity by 2025 (from 2006) – two key milestones towards our 2040 net-zero target.
For more information, please see our annual report 2024, section ‘E1: Climate change’.
We’ll continue driving out emissions across scopes 1 and 2. The aim is to reduce our emissions intensity as much as possible, even beyond our 98 % reduction target.
Our decarbonisation efforts are guided by collaboration with world-leading climate NGOs, including:
Our climate strategy builds on global best practice standards and the 1.5 °C pathway, as outlined by climate science:
