People & Planet Positive IKEA Group Sustainability Strategy for 2020

People & Planet Positive IKEA Group Sustainability Strategy for 2020 Please visit People & Planet on www.IKEA.com CONTENT PEOPLE & PLANET POSITIVE 01. The world around us 02. IKEA vision and business foundations 03. People & Planet Positive 04. Overview: People & Planet Positive 05. A more sustainable life at home 06. Resource and energy independence 07. Better life for people and communities 08. A little IKEA & sustainability directory THERE IS A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD AROUND US For most of human history the world was sparsely populated and resources, from forests to fsheries, seemed unlimited. We started the 20th century with 1.65 billion people in the world, a population not much greater than that of China or India today. Society used resources and gen- erated waste with little restraint and few concerns. While this helped drive growth and improve the livelihoods of many millions of people, it was a long way from a sustainable society. The global population has now reached seven billion, resources are increasingly scarce and climate change is a reality. The world is on track to warm by four degrees Celsius by the end of this century, which will have a severe effect on weather patterns, water availability and ag- 1riculture . We have already lost half the world’s forests and degraded an estimated 60% of the 2world’s ecosystems . Today’s global economy is almost fve times the size it was 50 years ago and is set to triple again by mid-century.