Greenpeace Nordic exposes how Ikea, one of the world’s largest consumers of wood, is fuelling the destruction of Europe’s most valuable forests while hiding behind flawed certification schemes. The report reveals a huge gap between Ikea’s promises to use its size and scale to make a positive difference and its operational realities on the ground, and that the company fails to measure the true environmental footprint of its supply chain.
Ikea needs to locate their missing manual, open it, and follow the instructions, step by step to:
- Immediately suspend sourcing from forest areas of high biodiversity value or potential (proposed moratorium areas) at a minimum until governments complete the area designation processes required to deliver the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy’s 30 per cent land protection targets, including 10 per cent strictly protected.
- Adopt a Corporate Biodiversity Accountability Framework with measurable 2030 targets covering the entire supply chain, aligned with the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the EU Biodiversity Strategy, and owned at board level rather than treated as a mere due diligence formality.
- Establish ecosystem integrity as a principle of Ikea’s approach to governance, moving from monitoring forest cover to monitoring forest condition, with measurable indicators for composition, structure, biodiversity, ecological processes, independent monitoring, and assessment of the effects of extraction on surrounding ecology.
- Publicly advocate for ambitious implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework and the EU Biodiversity Strategy, including effective protection of at least 30 per cent of land and strict protection of at least 10 per cent. Ikea should fully disclose its forest and biodiversity related lobbying positions, and advocate to recognise ecosystem integrity and forest degradation as measurable implementation outcomes in the 2030 Forest Roadmap and other relevant policy processes.