Climate change: Transa’s commitment

Scope 1 encompasses direct emissions from internal sources. At Transa, these include the use of fuel for our own vehicles and refrigerants for air conditioning systems, for instance.

Scope 2 encompasses the emissions generated by external energy providers in the production of electricity, steam or district heating. For us, this relates to the electricity we obtain from power stations.

Scope 3 encompasses all emissions that occur in the upstream and downstream value chain. In our case, this includes all emissions that arise during the manufacture of our product range and the emissions caused during the use of our products, amongst others.

Our carbon footprint analysis shows that the vast majority of our emissions are generated in Scope 3, with about 90% of them coming from the manufacturing of our products. However, the emissions attributable to our office and store equipment and our IT and communication technologies, as well as the use phase of our products, are not irrelevant. In total, 99.99% of the greenhouse gas emissions generated by Transa’s business activities are attributable to Scope 3. In comparison, we generate very few greenhouse gas emissions in Scope 1 and 2 (0.01%).

By 2030, we aim to reduce our emissions across all three scopes by 42% (compared to the base year 2023) in accordance with the SBTi standard. We have already achieved a 58% reduction in Scope 1 and 2, through certificates of origin in the electricity market among other things. Scope 3 remains the largest source of emissions.

We have developed a specific SBTi-compliant reduction pathway that shows how we want to reduce emissions across all three scopes within a defined timeframe. Find out more here.

In 2026, we will work on embedding this reduction pathway strategically within the company.

Our brands have the greatest influence, because the majority of our business-related emissions arise when our product range is manufactured.

A number of our highest-selling brands have joined the SBTi (Science Based Targets initiative) and set ambitious, science-based climate targets in line with the Paris climate targets. These include brands such as Patagonia, Mammut, Arc’teryx and Vaude. Brands such as The North Face, Icebreaker and Smartwool, for which the parent company has set itself the SBTi targets, are also involved. Together, these brands generate a good quarter of Transa’s sales.

If our brands reduce their CO₂ emissions, our carbon footprint will also shrink. As a retailer that doesn’t manufacture any products in-house, we are not active in the supply chains ourselves, which is why we have very little direct influence there. As a Swiss SME, we’re also too small to have a major indirect influence on our own.

We are currently reviewing purchasing measures that should lead to a more climate-friendly product range.

We support climate-friendly consumption through our repair & care services, the second-hand platform and rental services and are striving for growth in these business areas. In 2025, we handled 24,668 repairs for our customers. Repairing products and using them for longer reduces CO₂e emissions.

We collaborate with other outdoor retailers on climate-related issues and emissions reduction via the European Outdoor Group in order to exploit synergies when collecting climate data and communicating with our brands.

Although our footprint in Switzerland is extremely small compared to that of our products’ supply chains, we want to address this area as well.

In 2022, Transa’s Zurich offices were renovated according to the ‘zero waste’ principle: keep what we need, reuse what we can. The architectural firm ‘in situ’ used existing materials from the office and the region, saving 47.5 tonnes of CO₂e. This is a small amount compared to our annual total footprint of around 18,000 tonnes – but our offices and stores are areas where we can take direct action.