Honda Motor Europe has released its 2025 European Sustainability Report, which outlines the company’s environmental and sustainability performance across its European operations and value chain throughout the region for the previous financial year.
Replacing the company’s annual Environmental Report, which was first published in 2012, this new document encompasses a wider reporting brief beyond solely environmental activity to now include its social, governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities.
An example from the past 12 months is the work undertaken at Honda Italia Industriale (HII), including the development of a waste water treatment plant that can treat 4,000 tons of water a year as well as re-use around 75% of it. In addition, reuse of packaging material and recycling has created an estimated saving of 2.044 tons of CO2 at the manufacturing facility.
As such, this new Sustainability Report plays a crucial role in mapping progress and highlighting key milestones in Honda Motor Europe’s role in helping to achieve the brand’s global ambition of carbon neutrality across all products and corporate activities by 2050, guided by its Triple Action to Zero framework.
Victoria Friend, Head of Data and ESG, Honda Motor Europe, said: “Sustainability is at the core of Honda’s operations, and our drive to achieve carbon neutrality across all areas of our business by 2050 continues unabated – as shown by the steps we have taken over the past financial year. With the expanded scope of this report and the completion of our first ESRS aligned Double Materiality Assessment, we now have an even clearer understanding of our impacts, risks and opportunities across the European value chain, as well as our progress toward realising a circular resource society with zero environmental impact.”
Honda’s European Sustainability Report 2025 Covering the fiscal year from April 2024 to March 2025, this year’s report has been designed to further boost transparency. Including information on the risks and opportunities arising from social and environmental issues, as well as Honda’s impacts on people and the environment, this report aligns with the brand’s commitments under the latest Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
Once again, Honda has continued to develop its electrification, hybrid, and intelligent technologies, resulting in the brand’s entire mainstream automobile product range now being electrified. It is also at the forefront of electric motorcycle development, with an expanding range of offerings. In early 2025, this increased to two with the launch of the CUV e: scooter, which joined the EM1 e: moped.
Beyond automobiles, the report also included a close look at the environmental performance of all its European operations, including production, logistics, and sales. This highlighted further growth and development of the ‘Train Project’ at HII, which shifted component transportation from road to rail, saving nearly 800 tons of CO2.
Over the reporting period, Honda also conducted a Double Materiality Assessment (DMA), which evaluated sustainability topics across its regional operations, products and value chain. This highly valuable insight helped further highlight the potential and actual environmental impacts of its activities. The results of the DMA will directly influence the company’s strategy, target setting, risk management and stakeholder engagement priorities in the years ahead, helping it to achieve its Triple Action to Zero target of carbon neutrality by 2050.