Climate change mitigation
Q-Park reduces its CO2 emissions as it mitigates the effects of climate change, which, in turn, has a positive cascade effect on public health, and plant and animal diversity. Moreover, these efforts support economic resilience and stimulate innovation, leading to solutions that are more energy‑efficient, low‑carbon, and resource‑conscious.
There is, however, a challenge.
On the one hand we reduce our kWh consumption through our Energy Portfolio Management, by sourcing renewable energy and taking energy-saving measures.
On the other hand we install more EV charging points for our customers and increased EV charging transactions, resulting in more kWh consumption.
Results
We report on our operational portfolio and market-based emissions as these reflect our initiatives to source renewable energy. We also report location-based emissions to demonstrate the impact of our decisions.
In 2025 we were able to further reduce our GHG emissions as follows:
Scope 1 emissions decreased marginally, consolidating on changes made in previous years.
Scope 2 – market-based emissions decreased by 6%, mainly due to sourcing more renewable energy.
Scope 2 – location-based emissions increased by 14%, reflecting higher electricity consumption, mainly attributable to the expansion of our portfolio.
Scope 3 – market-based emissions rose by 12% mainly due to operated EV charging point portfolio growth and increased use of these EV CPs.
The Scope 2 reductions are also reflected in the lower average carbon footprint per parking space in operated parking facilities (PFs). The average kg CO2 per parking space is now 10.5 (2024: 14.2), a decrease of 26%.
Since we started measuring our emissions in 2010, we have achieved a 94% reduction in our carbon footprint per parking space.
Chart 9 Average CO2 footprint (kg CO2) per parking space (market based as of 2020)
The following chart shows the breakdown of emissions per parking space per type of car park structure. Emissions per parking space in above ground PFs remain higher than emissions per parking space in below ground PFs. This is mainly because we have a large share of above ground PFs in the UK and Ireland, countries with high emission factors: UK (135 gCO2e/kWh) and Ireland (366 gCO2e/kWh). However, renewable-energy contracts for UK and Ireland are planned for 2026.
Chart 10 CO2 footprint (kg CO2) per parking space per type of structure – market based
The following chart shows the total GHG emissions and emissions per Scope, calculated with market-based data for Scopes 2 and 3. The emissions in Scope 3 originate from upstream fuels (tCO2 527), upstream electricity (tCO2 947), transmission and distribution losses (tCO2 1,128), EV charging points (tCO2 629) and business flights (tCO2 64).
Potential differences reported in previous reports can be attributed to updating extrapolated data with actual data.