Our Environmental Policy, covering GN’s approach to all material environmental topics across our own operations and value chain, includes a section on resource inflows, stating that our commitment to reducing resource inflows by optimizing for efficient resource use in the design of our product and avoiding unnecessary production waste. Where this is technically and operationally feasible, we are committed to introducing recycled or renewable alternatives for materials used in our products. For biological or renewable materials, such as paper and cardboard used in our packaging, we strive to source these materials sustainably to ensure this does not lead to deforestation. The provenance of the materials we use is pivotal to the impact of our value chain, which is why we source materials with credible third-party certifications, such as FSC, ISCC Plus and Global Recycling Standard.

All targets have been set based on insights into development trends in the market, as well as considering availability of resources, materials, supplier performance, and cost considerations. All current targets and our ambition level in setting further targets in this area is to comply proactively with legislation and stakeholder expectations. As such, we determine which metrics to use for our targets based on three considerations:

• (Emerging) legislation, such as right-to-repair and extended producer responsibility laws, which could require reporting on progress in specific areas of resource outflows
• Stakeholder demands, such as customers requiring further insights in progress in areas of for example repairability or durability
• Effectiveness of achieving greater circularity in our business model, where targets should be in areas where the metric best represents true circularity impact, as measured by progress towards current or future targets