Climate
Our activities are both affected by and contribute to climate change. Climate change poses a risk to our seed production and supply chain due to fluctuating yields and changes in demand. At the same time, our solutions enable us to help growers and customers adapt to extreme weather conditions and reduce their climate footprint. We therefore work purposefully to ensure that our solutions become part of the response to climate challenges.
Adapting to Climate Change
Our business operations are both affected by and contribute to climate change, resulting in more frequent extreme weather events such as droughts and floods. As a company with close ties to nature, it is essential that we adapt to climate change and support stable conditions for growth throughout our value chain.
Climate change can create instability in seed production and affect the balance between supply and demand across the value chain. At the same time, it creates new opportunities. The development of products and solutions adapted to challenges such as drought, flooding, salinity and climate-related diseases plays an important role in future food security and in creating more resilient agriculture and land use systems.
Our efforts are centered around:
- Climate-resilient varieties with improved tolerance to drought, flooding and disease.
- Global research with local focus, ensuring varieties are developed for the conditions where they will be used.
- Multi-species seed mixtures that increase resilience to changing climate conditions.
Contributing to Climate Mitigation
Grassland can make a significant contribution to reducing carbon emissions, as carbon is sequestered in both plants and soil. This applies in agriculture as well as in sports facilities and urban environments, where our solutions, including grass, legumes and flowers, support carbon sequestration, reduce surface runoff and contribute to local temperature regulation. At the same time, the development of products and solutions focused on carbon sequestration and methane reduction creates new opportunities to support more climate-efficient agriculture
Our efforts are centered around:
- Carbon sequestration through perennial crops and deep-rooted systems.
- Feed solutions that can contribute to lower methane emissions from livestock.
- Nature-based solutions where grassland forms part of climate action.
Grassland contributes to carbon sequestration, reduces erosion and supports resilient production systems.
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Climate Data and Development
We are building the foundation for DLF’s climate reporting by continuously developing our climate accounting approach and strengthening the underlying data and processes. The climate account is currently used internally as a decision-support tool while we continue to improve data quality and strengthen the robustness of our data foundation in preparation for future external reporting.
Focus on the value chain
Our analysis shows that the majority of DLF’s CO₂e emissions originate from Scope 3 emissions in the value chain, where seed production plays a central role. This also means that, together with our seed growers, we have a significant opportunity to reduce our climate footprint.
Seed Production as a Driver of Decarbonisation
We have developed a model that enables us to track all inputs from soil cultivation to harvest. The model serves as a framework for understanding how inputs such as fertiliser, fuel and plant protection products influence CO₂e emissions.