The LEGO Group Appoints Annette Stube as Chief Sustainability Officer

The LEGO Group has appointed Annette Stube as its Chief Sustainability Officer. Stube will be a part of the corporate in January. 

In her new position, Stube might be accountable for main LEGO’s environmental sustainability and technique, and dealing with operations, product growth, and advertising groups to ship company-wide plans and targets. As well as, Stube will assist the corporate’s exterior environmental communications and engagement exercise. She is going to report back to Chief Govt Officer Niels B. Christiansen. 

“There are only a few corporations who’ve kids as their main prospects, which reminds us that the necessity for change may be very actual and pressing,” Stube says. “It’s encouraging to see The LEGO Group prioritize investments and assets in opposition to accelerating its sustainability ambitions and I’m trying ahead to taking part in my half to ship these.”

Stube boasts greater than 25 years of expertise working in sustainability. Earlier than becoming a member of Stora Enso, a Swedish-Finnish renewable supplies firm, Stube was the Head of Sustainability at Maersk for greater than 10 years. She additionally held senior sustainability roles at Novo Nordisk and has been an Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Enterprise Faculty for the previous 10 years. Stube has acted as an advisor to the Danish Authorities on a number of sustainability matters and is presently a member of the Presidency for WWF, Denmark, an unbiased conservation group.

“Delivering on our Planet Promise is one in all our most pressing and vital challenges. Whereas we now have made vital progress over the previous few years to scale back the affect our enterprise has on the planet, we now have far more to do,” Christiansen says.  “Now we have set bold targets to scale back carbon emissions, make our merchandise and packaging extra sustainable and round, and run zero affect operations. Annette has a powerful observe report in serving to corporations and governments drive systemic change which delivers lasting environmental affect.”