Playing an important role in the climate transition

This autumn marks five years since Sodexo’s Sparx Nordic accelerator programme was launched. This programme partners with companies run by driven entrepreneurs, and that we see moving the service industry forward at a time when the world of work is changing rapidly and there is a great need for new innovations.

During the programme, entrepreneurs will have access for three months to:

• Learning: Senior industry expertise and mentoring in commercialisation

• Testing: A global testing environment with the ability to reach people in over 50 countries

• Scalability: A global network and a future market for their innovation

Klimato was one of the rising stars in Sodexo’s Sparx accelerator programme in 2018. The companies’ collaboration has deepened since then, and Peter Mellin, CEO of Sodexo AB, made a crucial decision during the financial year to accelerate the reduction of the climate impact of food.

Taking the cost of the Klimato tool at a central level sends a clear signal that Sodexo is committed to driving down the climate impact of food. And this has to be done by doing, not by waiting and seeing. It is not enough for Sweden and the other Nordic countries to have made more progress than the rest of Europe in this endeavour.

Klimato

Klimato was founded in 2017 by a group of childhood friends with a vision to reduce the climate impact of food.

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“Moreeffort willbe required if we’regoing to meet both Sodexo’s own and the UN’sclimate targets. We know how climateimpact can be reduced, and how it plays an important role in the transition.The climatetool helps us choose ingredients with lessclimateimpact, and the climatesymbol on our menus gives our guests the opportunity to make climate-smart choices,”saysAnna Stridh, Head of Food Platform.

With the help of an algorithm and a simple climate label, both restaurant visitors and people who develop recipes and menus are guided to make climate-conscious choices.

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Sodexo’s volunteer programme

The Sodexo volunteer programme, which was introduced in the 2019 financial year, offers all staff one paid day per year to work for a volunteer organisation. This initiative is in line with our values and our ambition to contribute to social sustainability and local presence.

The volunteer programme gives every employee the opportunity to make a contribution during working hours. Everyone is free to choose a non-profit organisation that aims to support society, the environment, animals or people. This non-profit organisation must comply with Sodexo’s values and human rights principles.

The volunteer programme is designed to support and encourage employee engagement and complements our long-standing support for charitable organisations in various parts of the country through Stop Hunger.

Fun, eco-conscious volunteer day

A happy, environmentally conscious group of six employees from different functions at Sodexo’s headquarters in Arenastaden, Solna, managed to find the perfect summer’s day for four hours of volunteering.

Their volunteering efforts, which took the form of litter picking along the promenade at Råstasjön in Solna and Lötsjön in Sundbyberg, conveniently coincided with both the international World Oceans Day (8 June) and a major national day celebration at the Lötsjön-Golfängarna nature reserve a few days earlier. So there was an unusual amount of litter to deal with in the area on this particular day.

“I would definitely recommend that everyone at Sodexo should take advantage of the volunteer day. Doing something positive for society together with your colleagues, whether it is litter picking, working in a soup kitchen or something completely different, is a chance I think everyone should take,” says Anna Burholm, Head of QHSE Sweden/Denmark.

Equipped with protective plastic gloves, the team headed out to deal with all the litter in their path. Cigarette butts, Swedish snus, chewing gum, wrappers from ice-cream and sweets, napkins, bottle caps, tins with deposits on them and even a rusty old barbecue grate went into their rubbish bags. The bags were filled to the brim, and all the litter – about 6 kg of it! – met its fate thanks to the volunteers that day.

Significantly reducing our environmental footprint

Sodexo works closely with all its stakeholders to create, improve and deliver services that have a low environmental impact.