LF Real Estate Agency Takes Climate Action from Financial Statements to Concrete Measures
LF Fastighetsförmedling is one of Sweden’s largest real estate brokerage chains, with offices throughout the country. Since 2021, the company has been working with ZeroMission to manage its climate impact, from its first climate report to its current structured approach to measurement, insights, and reduction.
For LF Fastighetsförmedling, sustainability is a natural and integral part of its operations. The company’s goal is to be the most sustainable firm in the real estate brokerage industry, a fact that is also reflected in the company having been named, for several years in a row, the real estate brokerage that Swedes perceive as the most sustainable. This is fully in line with the company’s long-term efforts to measure, reduce, and monitor its climate impact across the entire business—from offices, procurement, and transportation to travel and other business-related emissions.
"Vi har en tydlig ambition att vara mäklarbranschens mest hållbara företag. För att lyckas behöver vi inte bara sätta ambitiösa mål, utan också förstå vår klimatpåverkan och prioritera rätt åtgärder. Samarbetet med ZeroMission har gett oss både struktur, insikter och konkreta verktyg för att utveckla vårt klimatarbete och minska våra utsläpp", säger Per Sangrud, PR- och hållbarhetschef från LF Fastighetsförmedling.
The collaboration with ZeroMission began in 2021, when LF Fastighetsförmedling produced its first climate report with the help of ZeroMission’s climate strategists. The climate report provided the company with a snapshot of its current emissions and served as the foundation for its ongoing climate efforts. A solid foundation—which high-quality climate calculations provide—is essential for prioritizing the right actions moving forward, rather than guessing where efforts will be most effective. That is why this was an important first step.
Workshop on Reducing Climate Impact
Based on the first set of financial statements, LF Fastighetsförmedling subsequently held a reduction workshop together with climate strategists from ZeroMission. During the workshop, the team mapped out where the largest emissions were within the business and, together, identified which reduction measures would have the greatest impact. This provided a concrete foundation on which to build.
Climate Calculations in a Flexible Sustainability Platform
LF Fastighetsförmedling is now conducting its climate reporting on ZeroMissions’ sustainability platform Our Impacts, a web-based platform built on a database of current emission factors that allows for multiple data providers. The transition to using a platform for the climate report provided LF Fastighetsförmedling with a more consistent and structured view of its emissions, along with the ability to track trends over time.
In addition to the calculation itself, ZeroMission has presented the insights from the climate report to LF Fastighetsförmedling and, as before, developed concrete reduction measures based on the emission figures.
Genom att kombinera klimatbokslut, insiktsarbete och minskningsåtgärder har LF Fastighetsförmedling byggt upp ett klimatarbete som utvecklas i takt med att verksamheten växer och förändras, med ZeroMissions klimatstrateger som ett kontinuerligt stöd.
