Sustainable Development Goals

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 interconnected global goals to promote peace and prosperity while protecting people and the planet. They represent an action plan for the planet and society to thrive by 2030, and explicitly call on businesses to help lead this transformation.

We recognize the strategic importance of the SDGs to our business and the world and are committed to helping achieve them. We have identified nine priority SDGs as the goals to which we most significantly contribute and have used the SDG Compass to determine them. To understand and prioritize the most relevant SDGs for Neste, we have assessed both the positive and negative impacts our business has on the SDGs throughout our value chains. Our prioritization process is based on our sustainability materiality assessment, impact evaluation study, an external review and an internal expert analysis. By identifying material sustainability topics and the relevant SDGs, we position Neste as part of society as well as part of the global sustainability framework. We monitor, measure and follow up our actions’ effect on the broader context.

Read more from our latest sustainability related reports.

Clean energy

Neste increases the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by producing and selling renewable fuels, for example for road transportation and aviation.
Neste is increasing production capacity for renewable products, e.g. Rotterdam refinery capacity expansion project.
Neste-produced sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) enables the aviation industry to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of air travel and transportation by replacing fossil jet fuel.
All the diesel-powered ground fleet runs on Neste MY Renewable Diesel™ at several airports.

Decent work and economic growth

• We take steps to protect labor rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, with special attention to vulnerable groups.

• Neste is committed to implementing effective measures to prevent exploitation, modern slavery and child labor.

• Neste respects and supports children’s rights and is recognized as a Leader in the Global Child Forum’s Benchmark Report, The State of Children’s Rights and Business since 2023.

• We commit to pay all our employees a living wage and promote living wages in our supply chains.

• We support our employees’ individual development goals.

• Neste has established site-level complaints channels at all its refineries, promoted with posters to inform migrant contract workers of their labor rights and encourage them to report any concerns directly to Neste.

Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Reducing inequalities

Sustainable cities and communities

Neste helps its customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by offering renewable fuels for aviation and road transportation.
Neste helps cities in mitigating climate change by reducing GHG emissions with renewable fuels.
Neste MY Renewable Diesel is available for customers at fuel stations in for example, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sweden and in the US.
Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ is available at several airports and airlines.
Neste offers electric vehicle charging services at its service stations in Finland and in the Baltics.

Responsible consumption and production

We refine waste, residues and innovative raw materials into renewable fuels and produce feedstock solutions using renewable and recycled raw materials.
Climate, biodiversity, human rights and supply chain sustainability aspects are integrated in our investment process and criteria.
We have completed Sedex self-assessment questionnaires for our refineries in Porvoo, Rotterdam and Singapore, allowing us to thoroughly assess gaps in our management systems and human rights due diligence.

Climate action

Neste contributes to climate change mitigation efforts by producing increasing volumes of renewable and circular products while also aiming to reduce its own carbon footprint. Our climate work is focused on three priority areas: carbon handprint, GHG emissions in our own operations, and use-phase emission intensity.
Through our renewable and circular solutions, we aim to help our customers reduce their GHG emissions by at least 20 million tons annually by 2030.
Neste’s climate commitments are connected with the remuneration of Neste’s key personnel.
To align our investment decisions to support our climate commitments, we apply an internal carbon price for our scope 1 & 2 GHG emissions in investment calculations, business case evaluations and strategic planning.

Life on land

Neste is committed to protecting biodiversity with a vision to drive a positive impact on biodiversity and achieve a nature positive value chain 1) by 2040. We aim to generate a net positive impact on biodiversity for all new direct operations from 2025 onwards, and target no net loss (NNL) of biodiversity from our existing operations by 2035.
Neste aims to prevent deforestation and requires the same from its suppliers.

_{1) A nature positive value chain means that throughout our value chain, we are creating more positive impacts on nature than causing adverse ones}