Sustainability strategy
Camurus’ sustainability strategy is grounded in our sustainability agenda, which is structured around four focus areas: Patients, People, Planet, and Responsible Business. The strategy is informed by a comprehensive materiality analysis and ongoing stakeholder dialogue, ensuring that we focus on the most relevant and impactful areas of sustainability.
| Camurus' four focus areas | Ambitions | Material topics | Sustainability goals | SDGs goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients | Always place the patient at the center of our business | Patient data privacy Product and patient safety, and ethical clinical trials Access to medicines |
From 2025: Ensure and enhance engagement in disease awareness activities for approved medication and late-stage candidates By 2026: Take at least one new drug to regulatory approval By 2027: Enhance access to evidence-based treatments for opioid dependence, increase number of patients in treatment on Buvidal to >100,000 By 2030: Obtain regulatory approvals for CAM2029 in two new indications |
3. Good health and well-being: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Target: 3.5 Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol, and 3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential healthcare services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all 10. Reduce inequalities within and among countries. Target: 10.2 By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status |
| People | Maintain an inclusive, diverse and open work environment where employees can thrive and contribute to our goals and vision | Diversity, equity and inclusion Good work environment Human rights due diligence |
From 2025: Maintain a high degree of inclusion amongst Camurus’ employees by reaching a score equal to or above 8 in the relevant categories in the annual regular employee survey By 2026: Healthy work attendance over 97% By 2030: Promote gender balance across the organization, with the goal of achieving a minimum 60/40 gender distribution at management, executive management team, and board level1 |
5. Gender equality: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Target: 5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life 8. Decent work and economic growth: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. Target: 8.8 Protect labor rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers,in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment |
| Planet | Develop our business with minimal environmental impact throughout the value chain | Greenhouse gas reduction Renewable energy |
Transition from combustion engine cars to battery electric vehicles (BEV) should be conducted as fast as possible2 From 2024 all new benefit cars are battery electric vehicles Transition of job cars to battery electric vehicles in the Nordic countries by 20302 Transition of job cars to battery electric vehicles in other European countries by 20352 Transition of job cars to battery electric vehicles in all other countries by 20402 From 2024: At least 80% of the energy used within Camurus’ operations3 to come from renewable sources By 2035: Reduce scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50%4 By 2035: Reduce selected scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40%5 By 2045: Net zero greenhouse gas emissions (scope 1, 2 and 3)6 |
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. Target: 7.2 By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix 13. Climate action: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Target: 13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries, and 13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning |
| Responsible business | Always conduct our business and interact with stakeholders in an ethical, responsible, and respectful manner | Corruption and bribery Corporate culture Political engagement and lobbying activities Protection of whistleblowers Animal welfare |
By 2026: Annual training of all Camurus’ employees and consultants in the company’s Code of Conduct in relevant topics, such as anti-corruption and data protection By: 2026: Ensure an open culture where employees feel safe to report suspected misconduct, including corruption, as well as a robust framework for monitoring within which any problems are identified and addressed By 2026: Disclose value transfers to the healthcare system according to applicable industry codes or on a voluntary basis By 2026: Monitor significant vendors in the first tier within research and development, production and distribution regarding compliance with Camurus’ Vendor Code of Conduct From 2027: Perform compliance and sustainability review/audit and implement mitigating actions as needed on “high risk” third-party intermediaries and “high risk” significant vendors every 3 years From 2027: Perform independent evaluation of Camurus’ business ethics and compliance framework every 2 years. Achieve overall rating result for maturity at a minimum level 3 on a scale 1-5. |
16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. Target:16.5 Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms |
Footnotes
- This goal replaces Camurus’ 2026 gender goal: “By 2026, the gender distribution at board and management level shall reflect that of the company overall (±20%).” The goal was achieved in 2025.
- Where technically feasible.
- Includes Camurus’ offices and laboratories and excipient manufacturing.
- Compared to 2023.
- Compared to 2024.
- The remaining greenhouse gas emissions that cannot be reduced will be offset in 2045 and beyond.