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 urbanization continues to rise, safeguarding green spaces will be crucial to ensuring a healthy, livable place for generations to come.
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.
Science-Based Targets
The Science-Based Targets initiative helps companies set targets in line with climate sience. These targets aim to provide companies with a clearly-defined path to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement goals.
Carbon Disclosure Project
CDP is a not-for-profit organisation that runs a global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The system has been in operation for over 20 years.
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 engagement
Sustainovate – our sustainability program
This is Sustainovate – our plan to lead our industry in the shift to a resource-smart economy. Through Sustainovate, we are challenging ourselves and inspiring others to transform and are pioneering solutions for step-change efficiency and smarter use of resources.
Sustainovate captures three opportunities for change — Carbon, Circular and People — and three targets to 2025 that are driving the way we do business. They bring us opportunities to support the shift to a low-carbon energy mix, to pioneer ways to deliver great value to customers through circular economy solutions, and to inspire and engage our customers and employees to scale our positive impacts.
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.
Gardens, balconies and terraces, but also house and garage roofs, backyards, vertically planted walls or a small spot on the windowsill or stairs are flowering gifts for nature and people. Everyone and every little planted spot can contribute.
Green spaces need water to flourish. Using our precious resource wisely is key.
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.
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 made from recycled materials
- 1985: First launch: irrigation computer with moisture sensors for accurate determination of water requirements
- 1990: Efficient use of water with the first generation of Micro-Drip-System
- 2006: Soil moisture sensors with improved technology
- 2016: GARDENA smart system: efficient 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
Since January 2017, the German sites in Ulm, Heuchlingen and Niederstotzingen have been supplied with 100 percent electricity from renewable sources. This status was also achieved at the Czech locations in Třinec in 2017, with Vrbno following in the following year.
Since 2021, 100% of the electricity procured at all Gardena operations sites comes from renewable sources. In 2023, the newly acquired Orbit sites also switched to purchasing 100% green electricity.
Since 2018 GARDENA contributes to UNICEF's worldwide WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) programmes. This will allow UNICEF to provide more than 290,000 children and families with access to clean drinking water by 2023.
GARDENA EcoLine is the first range of high quality gardening tools in the market that is made with significant shares of recycled materials. It consists mainly post-consumer recycled material. The plastic components of each product consist of at least 65 % recycled material. The GARDENA EcoLine has been awarded the German Sustainability Award Design 2022 in the "Vision" category.
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.
