The materials wasted during construction, operation, and decommissioning constitutes a negative impact. In general, we see two complementary pathways to address waste generation that we must work on simultaneously. Firstly, we must consider if our waste generation can be avoided in the first place, by addressing the challenges at their root cause. This is done as we work to design our assets with minimal reliance on the use of a specific material, for example by switching non-recyclable content with more recyclable content to allow for proper waste treatment. At the same time, we need to ensure that waste is diverted from disposal by enhancing sorting and collection processes as well as supporting the maturation of reuse and recycling markets for our components and materials.

Based on our identified impacts and risk related to the matter of resource use and circularity, we have reviewed our ways of tracking the effectiveness of our policies and actions in 2024. Our location in the value chain of renewable energy assets implies that we rely heavily on upstream value chain partners to understand and quantify the impact we have, which challenges the foundation for setting measurable, outcome-oriented, and time-bound targets. Consequently, we have not yet adopted a formal target related to our impacts on and risk from resource use and circularity.