GLOBAL GOALS AS A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR JYSK’S SUSTAINABILITY WORK In the beginning of 2019, JYSK’s work with sustainability was put into a new context, as JYSK has decided to introduce UN Sustainable Development Goals as the overall guideline for our efforts. Working with sustainability and taking responsibility as a company is not new to JYSK. This has been central to JYSK for many years, and JYSK is engaged with a number of NGO’s to ensure continuous development in a sustainable direction. borders using the same language. The Global Goals also inspire us to develop further within the areas where we as a company have the biggest impact to make a change,” says Rune Jungberg Pedersen, Communications & CSR Director in JYSK. Environmental friendly packaging Working with the UN Global Goals has resulted in a number of specific projects, which JYSK will focus on in the time to come. In the beginning of 2019, JYSK went through an exercise with the UN’s 17 Global Goals to ensure that JYSK’s primary efforts within sustainability match the areas in which we as a company have the biggest impact through our value chain. “Our work with sustainability continues to be central in JYSK. The UN Global Goals offer a common frame of reference for our efforts that allow us to cooperate across organisations and One of the focus areas is to rethink the packaging of all products that are displayed in boxes in stores. When a customer for example buys a lamp in JYSK, it is packed in a box printed with colour and often the packaging consists of different types of materials. In the future, the packaging of these products will consist of brown cardboard boxes. “We are changing the packaging because the brown boxes without colour are much better for the environment. At the same 60 JYSK GROUP 2018/19
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