At Danoffice IT, we conduct business globally with customers spread across 182 countries. With that comes a great responsibility and a consciousness which follows us in everything we do. For more than two decades, we have worked to make a difference and as a leading supplier to the world’s largest IGOs and NGO, we know that change requires action. This also applies to our work in aiding the environment and the climate.
The environment and the climate are under pressure and as is clear in our open COP report, we both have a desire to contribute to sustainable adaptation and we have committed ourselves to do so. Therefore, we have initiated a number of efforts in various links of our value chain. These are efforts that each contribute to reducing our overall print - ranging from our electricity to our logistics.
Each year, we prepare a detailed Communications On Progress (COP) report, in which we outline the status and results of our overall ESG efforts. All initiatives made from social responsibility to reduction of CO2 emissions can be viewed here.
Our Environmental Goals
We have an environmental policy which all employees must follow and live up to. Furthermore, we have set four environmental goals that we will focus on achieving.
Environmental Goal #1: Reduction of CO2 emissions
We are aware that the global trade in IT impacts our climate. Therefore, we continuously implement initiatives that help reduce our CO₂ emissions.
Our goal is to achieve a reduction of at least 50% in Scope 1 and 2 emissions from 2020 to 2030, and to reduce emissions in Scope 3 as much as possible. Additionally, our ambition is to achieve 100% carbon neutrality across all three scopes by 2050.
We have reduced our Scope 1 and 2 emissions from 193 tCO₂ in 2020 to 176 tCO₂ in 2025, corresponding to a 9% decrease achieved during a period of significant growth and the acquisition of several companies. This has been driven, among other things, by increased electrification of our company car fleet and investment in renewable energy from a solar park in Jutland, which matches our electricity consumption across all Danish locations. We will recalculate the 2020 baseline CO₂ emissions to ensure a correct and comparable reference going forward. At the same time, it will be important to expand the focus to Scope 3 in order to obtain a more complete picture of our total climate footprint, including emissions from the value chain.
Environmental Goal #2: Grow the Circular Business
The IT industry is responsible for a significant share of the growing global waste volume and also accounts for a considerable portion of total global CO₂ emissions.
At our company, we work to promote more circular IT practices, thereby reducing the negative environmental impact caused by both IT waste and production.
Towards 2030, we will intensify our focus on more sustainable IT solutions for our customers—covering production, use, transportation, and disposal of IT equipment. Our goal is to increase our circular IT business fivefold from 2020 to 2030.
In 2025, we have experienced a 1.68-fold growth compared to 2020 figures, measured by the number of units taken back from customers and resold to other customers. This demonstrates a continued strong development in our circular business. We have seen a positive increase supported by our new global ITAD setup and expanded international capacity. At the same time, we have significantly improved resource utilization. More units are now being sent for reuse instead of waste (recycling), and the amount of waste has been significantly reduced. Our global ITAD business has also been strengthened, enabling us to now serve customers in 139 countries with access to 106 facilities. This provides a strong platform for further scaling. Overall, the circular business is experiencing solid growth and remains a key focus area in our ESG work towards 2030.
Environmental Goal #3: Waste Sorting
Our goal is to continually improve our waste sorting so that as much waste as possible can be recycled. We are continuously adjusting our waste sorting at our locations to ensure that we follow local and regional laws and regulations on waste sorting and to minimize waste that cannot be recycled.
Environmental Goal #4: Communication of Environmental Goals
Our goal is to increase both internal and external awareness of our work with our environmental goals through communication. When employees are more aware of our environmental goals, their daily behaviour will more likely support our environmental performance. When customers, partners and local communities are aware of our environmental work, it will strengthen our relationships and collaboration.
Scientific Goals Lead the Way
One of our clearly defined goals is for our business to become more sustainable. However, our goal is also to assist our customers in making changes in their business. We have committed ourselves to creating a sustainable business not by doing what is easy, but rather what is necessary and by following Science Based Targets, we know exactly how much and how fast we need to reduce our CO2 emissions so that we may contribute to preventing the worst possible consequences of climate change.
The IT industry's 9 Recommendations for Companies' Green Transition
Danoffice IT is a member of the IT industry's Policy Board for Green Transition, which works to create a framework where data and digitalization support Denmark's green transition. The focus is on increasing the demand for sustainable digital solutions and inspiring companies to integrate green technology and sustainability into their business. The board has developed a practical tool that can guide companies on how they can make the IT industry's 9 recommendations for their company's green IT transition more operational.
“We have committed ourselves to creating a sustainable business not by doing what is easy, but rather what is necessary.”
Henriette Normann-Ekegren, ESG Manager Danoffice IT
The Science Based Targets initiative is a collaboration between CDP, United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute (WRI), and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). By dedicating ourselves to this initiative run by such crucial players, we ensure that we are not stumbling blindly ahead or following intuition. SBTi is resting on a solid scientific foundation, among other things by setting goals and creating action based on recommendations from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.
Measures to Reduce the Climate Footprint in Our Logistics
We handle thousands of shipments every year and are therefore working to minimize the climate impact associated with transportation. We do this through collaborations with national and international logistics partners, including DHL Express, PostNord, and UPS.
For our shipments with DHL, we use their GoGreen solution. With GoGreen, DHL calculates the CO₂ emissions for the shipments we send through them, and DHL purchases climate compensation in the form of projects that, according to their calculations, reduce or avoid equivalent amounts of CO₂. Climate compensation does not reduce the actual emissions from transport but means that DHL finances external climate projects to offset the calculated emissions.
Our other logistics partners also work with their own programs for energy efficiency and reduced emissions, and we base our information on the documentation they provide.
We continuously develop our logistics solutions and will, going forward, publish more detailed data on emissions and the compensation associated with them.
Solar Power with The 0-mission
At Danoffice IT, we have many initiatives across our operations that are place to reduce our overall footprint. Therefore, our focus is on ensuring that our energy consumption becomes green. At Danoffice, we cannot choose what electricity comes out of our sockets. But we can ensure that we add as much solar energy to the grid as we consume.
That is why we subscribe to the Ingerslev Å solar park in Norddjurs Municipality via The 0-Mission, which ensures that 100% of our electricity consumption in Denmark is matched with electricity from the park, which is 100% privately financed.
This means that Danoffice IT contributes to the construction of more green energy in Denmark and to pushing fossil fuels and biomass out of the electricity grid. We hope that more people will choose similar solutions, because only when we stand together can we accelerate the green transition at a pace that ensures that we reach the goals in the Paris Agreement.
Greener Insight
In order to do business efficiently, you need knowledge and insight. That is certainly also the case when you talk about climate imprint and sustainability – highly complex areas. Therefore, we offer to prepare a CO2 report to create visibility for our customers and provide them with the opportunity to have a documented number of the positive imprint our customers are making in the world when they recycle their used IT equipment.
That also creates an awareness of the imprint made by IT in general as a result of manufacturing, usage, transportation, and disposal. Having this knowledge can create the foundation for action in the future. When you have clarity, it is easier to take more precise action.
ESG in Our Business
We work on our responsibility in any way possible in our business. Therefore, all our departments are affected by ESG when it comes to responsibility. In our COP report, you can learn about our work regarding anti-corruption and bribery, our participation in Run for a Purpose, and even the coffee we drink on a daily basis in the office.
-
WOMEN in Danoffice IT #10: Bente SelbachRead our profile of Bente Selbach, whose nearly 40 years of experience demonstrate how structure, perseverance, and strong relationships can be turned into real value for customers – and a career in constant development. -
WOMEN in Danoffice IT: 9 #Sarah Brix StebyFrom finance to a leadership role in sales: Sarah Brix Steby shares her journey, her choices, and her approach to creating structure in complexity—while succeeding in both her career and family life.
-
WOMEN in Danoffice IT #8: Carol SimonPortrait of Carol Simon – a journey from System Engineer to Head of India
-
WOMEN in Danoffice IT #7: Jeanette NielsenPortrait of Jeanette Nielsen - a mindset around development and new opportunities
-
WOMEN in Danoffice IT #6: Carina Lauridsen MehanovicPortrait of Carina Lauridsen Mehanovic – a journey from a one‑person role to a strategic department
-
Danoffice IT at Nethope with DELLAs a long-standing partner and sponsor of the NetHope Global Summit, Danoffice IT is once again present at this year’s event. An event that, year after year, strengthens the operational foundation enabling charitable NGOs around the world to succeed in their work.
-
WOMEN in Danoffice IT #5: Cate OmelchenkoPortrait of Cate Omelchenko – an inspiring journey from Ukraine to a career in tech and digital marketing at Danoffice IT.
-
Five Stars for Danoffice IT- For Second Year In a RowHP is among the world's most sustainable companies and is leading the way in development, especially with their ambitious HP Amplify Impact Partner Program. We have been involved from the beginning and have now been awarded the maximum five stars from the program.
-
25th anniversary of the UN Global Compact80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations itself, an organization Danoffice IT for many years, we have proudly called ourselves a leading supplier to the world’s largest humanitarian organizations.
-
WOMEN in Danoffice IT #4: Mette LarsenFrom trust to teamwork, Mette Larsen shares what really drives long-term success.
-
ISO 14001 - Leadership for the environmentWe act where we can! We are therefore proud of having achieved an ISO 14001-certification in Environmental Management for all of our Danish locations.
