Sustainability Leadership

Discover how Trane Technologies is scaling innovation, circularity and sustainable business strategies in our 2025 Sustainability Report.  

Our Oberhausen facility in Germany, is a carbon neutral Center of Excellence and Trane Rental Services hub that is advancing electrification, circular rental solutions and the next generation of talent while helping lead Trane Technologies toward its 2030 Sustainability Commitments.

Circularity can create sustainable business value while reducing waste by extending asset life, recovering valuable materials and improving product performance.

Featuring the perspectives of leaders from major brands and industry-leading companies, this playbook brings together core insights and real-world examples showing how sustainability creates business value.

A concise primer on the what, why and how of decarbonization, highlighting strategies and technologies that can help organizations lead in a low-carbon economy.

Embodied carbon is the hidden environmental footprint of the built environment. Explore how suppliers, manufacturers and sustainability leaders can reduce that footprint through innovation and collaboration.

From buildings and the cold chain to transport and industry, the shift to electrification is cutting emissions, reducing costs and creating jobs.

Read about the standout moments of 2025. Discover how we're leading by example with sustainable growth practices, continuing to innovate by embracing circularity and artificial intelligence as well as how our people and solutions are making a difference.

Treating cooling and heating as siloed, disconnected systems is an outdated yet still common mindset that results in wasted energy, higher greenhouse gas emissions, and unnecessary costs. Industries can achieve substantial gains in efficiency, sustainability, and performance by transitioning to a unified thermal management approach.

As technology continues to transform our economy, flexibility and collaboration across the energy sector will help drive efficiency and resilience.

At Climate Week NYC, sustainability leaders highlighted how decarbonization can create business value and drive growth.

At our Galway, Ireland facility, we’ve achieved and sustained zero-waste to landfill with innovative supply chain and recycling relationships and a commitment to environmental sustainability.

Decarbonizing urban areas requires bold innovation. Many of the solutions we need already exist, as seen at 2025's London Climate Action Week. Our challenge is to implement them at scale.

Our remanufacturing and repair programs give new life to critical assets, turning circularity into cost-savings for our customers and advancing our sustainability commitments.

Our transport refrigeration circularity strategy is extending equipment life, reducing carbon emissions and helping achieve our Gigaton Challenge.

Sustainability is a proven driver of growth. Discover how a clear vision and an innovative culture can accelerate profitability and change the world. 

Circularity practices like proactive maintenance and energy efficient upgrades can lengthen equipment life, create business value for customers and help decarbonize operations.

We’ve lifted the curtain on the inner workings of our decarbonization strategy with a public playbook, sharing every lever we will use on our path to net-zero by 2050.

By transforming discarded single-use plastics into second life refrigeration parts, we’re reducing costs and scaling decarbonization, creating a circularity blueprint for our global supply chain.

Our ​near- and long-term sustainability ​commitments are aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and highlighted in this Vision 2045 film.

Trane Technologies uses circularity in materials to cut carbon emissions, improve supply chain resilience and achieve our Sustainability Commitments.

Our La Crosse facility, where Trane® was founded more than 100 years ago, is helping lead our business toward a more sustainable future.

As we integrate circularity into our manufacturing operations, we’re reimagining product lifecycles, conserving resources, cutting emissions and driving growth through sustainability.

As the climate continues to change, and risks to human health and well-being continue to grow, one critical area demands our attention: the use of energy recovery technology in our cities to decarbonize buildings and transport.

Water is essential to life—and business—and an important element in sustainability strategy.

The Carolina Farm Trust increases access to locally grown produce and drives growth in the regional food economy.

We amplify our impact on issues from global climate action to local community needs through our partnerships.

Trane Technologies VP of Sustainability Scott Tew discusses the company’s move to reduce embodied carbon at UNGA Goals House at Climate Week NYC 2024.

Scott Tew has been named to The Independent's inaugural Climate 100 List for his impactful contributions to sustainability and climate leadership. 

Trane Technologies’ sustainability and procurement leaders on the company’s move to reduce embodied carbon by 40%.

This article is co-authored by Kinnar Ghiya, Vice President, Procurement, Trane Technologies.

Our Chief Human Resources Officer on how our culture of impact drives growth for our people, our company and our communities.

There does not have to be a tradeoff between a sustainability strategy and a strong bottom line.

We’re building a diverse workforce for the future by investing in the next generation.

At Thermo King Greenville, preparation and collaboration allowed for an accelerated timeline in the buildout of a new site ready for the future of electrification.

The manufacturing team for Thermo King in Galway, Ireland is leading the way toward Trane Technologies’ carbon neutral operations, innovating for the future, reducing environmental impact and contributing to a net-zero future. 

Trane Technologies leaders share their perspectives on COP28.

Accelerating decarbonization means not only inventing new technologies but also advocating for policies that support them at scale.

Trane Technologies leaders engaged with customers and environmental partners to take action together.

We're leading by example in responsible operations, and sourcing low-carbon steel is an important step on the path to net-zero.

A shared understanding of measurements and reporting mechanisms provides the foundation for trust with employees, investors, customers and communities.

Our team at Trane Monterrey is taking bold action to lead the way in responsible operations, installing photovoltaic panels and a biological wastewater treatment plant to reduce absolute energy consumption and achieve net positive water consumption for production across three plants. 

We’re investing in employee training, market education and community engagement, using storytelling as a tool to empower individuals and drive positive change towards a net-zero future.

Decarbonization is a term being used more and more around the world. For Thermo King, it has become a strategic part of our innovation journey and a way to advance our industry toward more sustainable outcomes.

Trane Technologies collaborates with Yuanshan Foundation to empower rural students in China with STEM education, fostering sustainable futures.

The road to a net-zero future is paved with uneven milestones and few signposts, but getting there is possible with the right roadmap and vision.

As a global climate innovator, Trane Technologies has clear ambitions. But ambition alone is not enough—we take action every day to enhance our positive impact on our customers and our communities.

Installation of new electrified Thermal Management System provides all-electric heating to the facility and is expected to reduce 1,800 metric tons of carbon emissions.

The race is on to transform companies for success in a decarbonized world. Chief Technology & Sustainability Officer Paul Camuti offers his perspective on the role of the board in strategy and oversight of ESG.

We’re sharing our strategy for reducing Scope 3 product-related emissions because others are ready to follow our lead.

How setting science-based targets and calculating product emissions has been key to Trane Technologies’ climate action.

Our corporate citizenship strategy utilizes the company’s strongest resources in order to uplift and engage students from underrepresented communities, so they can eventually drive change for our planet. 

Trane Technologies’ CFO, Chris Kuehn, explains how replacing the company’s product portfolio with more energy-efficient and lower-emissions products is the cornerstone to achieving its sustainability commitments and delivering on its growth ambitions.

We believe sharing our climate action commitments and plans with the world can help change the future of planetary and human health.

Bold decarbonization commitments will bend the curve on climate change, and the technology exists today to challenge what’s possible.

The technology is here, and the time is now. We can reduce carbon emissions in buildings and transport.

It’s possible to increase the comfort and confidence of riders while also progressing the environmental health and wellbeing of cities.

This article originally published in Forbes Tech Council.

To make headway in the fight against climate change, heating, cooling and ventilation systems have to be part of the solution.