Volvo Group
is a global company in one of the hardest to decarbonize sectors: It makes trucks, buses and construction and marine equipment, but not passenger cars. The Swedish heavy transport group generated 287 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent last year—almost 95% of that generated by the use of its products—but it aims to have net zero emissions by 2040.In charge of that lift is
Karin Svensson,
the company’s chief sustainability officer. The 23-year veteran of the company took time out to talk about the broad electrification of transport, the complexity of decarbonization, the one carbon-heavy habit she can’t quit (yet) and the difficulties of meeting net-zero goals that depend on multiple parties for EV incentives and i...
