Leonardo accelerate on sustainability and presents the Transition Plan 2026, which integrates the climate and environmental transition path within the new Industrial Plan 2026-2030The aerospace and defense group thus strengthens its ESG positioning in a context characterized by growing military spending in Europe and the progressive tightening of environmental, financial, and reporting regulations.
The transition strategy is reflected across the board both on the financial structure and on human capital: today 79% of funding sources of the Group is already indexed to ESG parameters through dedicated tools, while on the front of skills 64% of the workforce has STEM qualifications and over 37 thousand employees were formats on sustainability issues over the past year.
Three strategic pillars for the Transition Plan: Ambition, Actions and Accountability
The Transition Plan is structured along three lines – Ambition, Stocks e Accountability – which define climate strategy, investments, natural resource management, and the development of circularity.
The theme of the Just Transitn, with attention to skills, inclusion and valorization of people. transition digital acts as a cross-cutting enabler, integrating data and technologies to accelerate the achievement of sustainability goals.
Leonardo, results already achieved: growth and reduced environmental impact
Leonardo's strategy is based on the principle of "decoupling," with the aim of decoupling economic growth from environmental impact. With a 41% increase in revenue compared to 2019, the group has reduced Scope I and Scope II Market emissions Based on 44% compared to 2020, together with a reduction of 32% of electricity purchases from the external network, d23% of water withdrawals and 22% of the waste, confirming an improvement in overall efficiency.
Leonardo confirms its ESG leadership, resulting in the sixteenth consecutive year among the leaders of the indexes Dow Jones Best-in-Classs, with the highest score in the Aerospace, Defence & Security sector.
Critical raw materials and supply chain resilience
A central axis of the plan concerns the critical raw materials, also through European initiatives such as the project CRM4Defense.
Dependence on rare earths and strategic minerals, often concentrated in geopolitically sensitive areas, represents a major vulnerability for the defense and aerospace sectors. Consequently, the European Critical Raw Materials Act aims to reduce these risks through diversification of supplies and the reinforcement of resilience of strategic industrial supply chains.
For a group like Leonardo, active in the defense electronics, helicopters, aircraft, and cybersecurity sectors, supply chain robustness is increasingly becoming a factor directly linked to the operational continuity of government programs and the management of geopolitical risks.
