Tackling climate change
Aiming for net zero
Our commitment
Aston Martin is committed to achieving net zero emissions across our value chain by 2050. Our sustainability strategy underscores our commitment to play our part in accelerating emission reductions and managing the impacts of climate change on our business.
Our goal
To achieve this, we will deliver our net zero plan, transform our manufacturing operations and products and decarbonise our value chain.
The sections below outline the key actions we are taking to deliver our net zero ambition.
Aston Martin’s Climate Transition Plan
Our emissions footprint
Our emissions footprint is calculated and broken down into three categories based on the GHG Protocol:
- Scope 1: Direct emissions from sources that are owned or controlled by Aston Martin
- Scope 2: Indirect emissions from the consumption of purchased energy
- Scope 3: Other indirect emissions that occur in the Company’s value chain, both upstream and downstream
Decarbonising our own operations
To achieve our ambition of reducing emissions in our own operations (Scope 1 and 2) by 42% by 2030 from a 2022 baseline, we have developed an overarching decarbonisation strategy. We will continue to refine and develop this strategy over time, taking account of available and emerging technology. The approach includes three decarbonisation levers.
Our ISO 50001:2018 certification for energy management across engineering and manufacturing at our main sites in Gaydon and St Athan also provides a structured framework for monitoring, controlling and reducing energy consumption while reinforcing our commitment to the continual improvement of energy performance.
Decarbonising our value chain
Achieving our net zero target by 2050 requires action across our upstream and downstream value chain. Our programme focuses on the most significant sources of our Scope 3 emissions while continuing to improve the quality of our emissions data by increasing the use of actual supplier and operational data in place of estimated or modelled data.
More than 95% of our Scope 3 emissions come from three categories:
- Use of sold products
- Purchased goods and services and capital goods
- Upstream transport and distribution
Use of sold products
The largest contributor to our Scope 3 emissions is the use of the vehicles we sell (Category 11: Use of sold products). The pace of our transition to electrification is influenced by external factors including government policy, customer demand and the rollout of EV charging infrastructure. As our vehicle portfolio evolves, we expect emissions from the use of sold products to reduce at the pace needed to meet our long-term net zero target.
Valhalla is Aston Martin's first mid-engine plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) supercar and first production vehicle with a dedicated EV range capability.
Purchased goods and services and capital goods
Purchased goods and services and capital goods account for around 46% of our 2025 Scope 3 emissions. Through our procurement policies, we work with suppliers to reduce emissions across our supply chain.
Our Responsible Procurement Policy requires suppliers to have an environmental management system in place to identify, measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and to provide product-level emissions data, including information from sub-suppliers, logistics providers and other relevant activities, where requested.
We continue to engage with suppliers to improve the quality of our emissions data by replacing spend-based estimates with activity-based data wherever possible.
Upstream and downstream logistics
Logistics comprised around 2% of our 2025 Scope 3 emissions and is an important area of focus. We are working in partnership with our logistic providers to optimise the transport of components and finished vehicles to and from our manufacturing sites. Our short-term priorities include transitioning our inbound fleet to lower carbon fuels, optimising transport frequency to eliminate inefficiencies and considering our supply chain footprint through centralised approaches like near-shoring and reducing miles travelled.
Our approach to carbon credits and carbon offsetting
In publishing our net zero target we have made a commitment to emissions reductions. However, we recognise that as we move along our reduction pathway, we still have an emissions impact, and the development of an appropriate carbon credit strategy is important.
In developing a longer-term approach to carbon credits, we continue to purchase high-integrity carbon credits to deliver immediate emissions reductions while also supporting projects with wider societal benefit. In 2025, we purchased verified credits aligned with our 2024 Scope 1 and 2 (market-based) emissions. These credits support gas leak reduction efforts in Bangladesh, aligned with the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market’s Core Carbon Principles. The project is reducing the leakage of methane emissions but also training local people to improve the network directly.
To align with industry best practice, we have also purchased carbon credits in support of afforestation projects in the UK verified by the Woodland Carbon Code. As a part of this programme, Aston Martin is providing funding to support the Trossachs Highland Afforestation project. This project has planted three new woods east of the Trossachs National Park in Scotland with mixed conifer and deciduous trees in a natural planting scheme, rather than a linear matrix. These commercial pine woodlands are almost 200 hectares of forest suitable for sustainable harvesting and replanting.
Climate risks and opportunities
