Avoiding emissions through clever choices

Energy efficiency, energy optimization and recovery, and electrification, are key contributors to a low-carbon society. But how do you measure a technology’s full climate potential? Standard greenhouse gas reporting covers emissions created in a product’s use phase, but not emissions that could be avoided by switching to a more efficient solution.

To uncover this hidden climate win, Atlas Copco Group is introducing a complementary greenhouse gas reporting that quantifies the potential decarbonization effect. The reporting is based on the same principles used in regular Scope 3 reporting and includes typical use cases, specific applications, sales volumes, and expected lifetimes.

As a first step, a selection of products sold in 2025 was compared against a reference scenario in real customer applications. The results indicate that the selected products could help customers avoid more than 6,500,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions over their complete operational lifetime, compared to conventional solutions.

The products include premium-efficiency compressors, central controllers, energy recovery solutions, on-site gas generation, low-pressure blowers, high- efficiency filtration, portable  compressors, generators combined with battery packs,  diaphragm triplex pumps, booster pumps, and cryogenic compressors.

As the analysis only covers a fraction of the Group’s complete portfolio, the results should be viewed as indicative rather than comprehensive. Nevertheless, it is a powerful example of how innovation transforms the future.

Atlas Copco Group will now continue to refine this greenhouse gas reporting to further clarify the climate potential embedded in product innovation.

More information is available in the Annual Report for 2025, where you also find examples of products that can make a significant difference.