Sustainability & Engagement

Bringing people and nature closer together

Creating and preserving green spaces is essential for the future, because they offer countless benefits to our environment and society. Green areas help combat climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide, improve air quality, and support biodiversity. They provide habitats for various species and contribute to the well-being of communities by offering space for recreation, relaxation, and social connection. As urbanisation continues to rise, safeguarding green spaces will be crucial to ensuring a healthy, livable place for generations to come.

Our engagement

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UN Global Compact

The United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies to align their operations and strategies with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and to take actions that advance societal goals, such as the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Science-Based Targets

The initiative supports companies in defining their own science-based targets for emission reduction in accordance with the Paris Agreement.

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Climate Leadership Coalition

The Climate Leadership Coalition is a non-profit climate business network in Europe. The members strive to be among the leaders of their respective fields in terms of climate change mitigation ambition. It supports climate leaders by sharing best practice, policy approaches and strategies and by participating in regional and global policy development.

Our economic activities have consequences for the environment and climate.We are primarily concentrating our efforts on the topics of CO2 emissions and circularity, including materials and water.

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Carbon

Reducing CO2 emissions in our operations and beyond.

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Materials

We adopt several approaches to reduce the use of new materials, close loops and keep products and resources in use as much as possible.

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Water

Contributing to a clever use of our precious resource.

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Diversity in local green spaces

Biodiversity needs space to flourish. We have created such a space in our company garden in Ulm. Using concrete examples along our biodiversity trail, our employees discover where and how a space for more diversity can be realised in practice. Our company garden thus becomes a place of relaxation and offers inspiration for your own garden at home.

How you can contribute

Discover how you can make a difference

Keen gardeners all around the world work hard to create and maintain vibrant green spaces. In doing so, they also promote biodiversity, health, clean air, and an improved local climate.

Whether gardens, balconies and terraces or house and garage roofs, backyards, vertically planted walls or a small spot on the windowsill or stairs: everyone and every little planted spot can contribute.

Green spaces need water to flourish. Using our precious resource wisely is key – because every drop counts.

Tips and ideas for your own outdoor space

Explore how you can create your own outdoor space – be it a garden, a balcony, a windowsill - and make it flourish.

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A colourful garden ecosystem – Tips on creating and maintaining green spaces

Giving your garden planning the care and attention it deserves is the best way to bring your garden to life. You want flowers to be blooming and the scent of fresh herbs in the air...

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Every drop counts - Tips on using water in the garden

Water is one of the most important resources in the world. Many regions of the world are still suffering from a severe water shortage that is only set to get worse in the coming years and ultimately lead to desertification...

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Climate-friendly planting

Every plant makes specific demands of its location. By choosing and combining plants according to their natural preferences, you can create the conditions for long-lasting, functioning plant arrangements...

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Stay grounded: Tips for a healthy soil

There are billions of living organisms beneath our feet. Bugs, earthworms, bacteria, fungi, mites and others turn dead organic matter into humus...

Our milestones

Explore the sustainability-related milestones in our company history

  • 1977: GARDENA combisystem: one handle - many attachments
  • 1979: No use of lacquer paints to avoid pollutants
  • 1982: Multi-Click: one motor for eight different connection devices
  • 1990: Interchangeable battery system V12: one battery for many devices
  • 2020: Power for All Alliance: one battery for different tools across different brands
  • 2022: EcoLine: Products containing recycled materials
  • 1985: First launch: irrigation computer with moisture sensors for accurate determination of water requirements
  • 1990: Clever use of water with the first generation of Micro-Drip-System
  • 2006: Soil moisture sensors with improved technology
  • 2016: GARDENA smart system: clever watering through intelligent control
  • 2020: GARDENA smart system: optimised irrigation schedules by taking local weather forecast & sunrise and sunset times into account
  • Annual certification according to ISO 9001
  • Since 2005: FSC® chain of custody certification
  • Since 2005: Environmental management according to ISO 14001 at our German sites

Since January 2017, the German sites in Ulm, Heuchlingen and Niederstotzingen have been purchasing with 100 percent electricity from renewable sources. This status was also achieved at the Czech locations in Třinec in 2017, with Vrbno following one year later.

In 2023, the newly acquired Orbit sites also switched to purchasing 100% electricity from renewable sources.

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Certified standards

Our German sites have an environmental management system certified according to ISO 14001 and an energy management system certified according to ISO 50001. The wood used in our products is 100% FSC® certified.

Read our Annual Report

Since 2016, Husqvarna Group has been disclosing its progress in the area of sustainability. Since 2025, this reporting has been integrated into the company Annual Report.

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