Scaling Sustainability: Inside the Trane Technologies 2025 Sustainability Report

Each year, we publish our global sustainability report, a comprehensive look at how Trane Technologies is translating our purpose — to boldly challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world — into action. Our 2025 sustainability report provides an inside look at how Trane Technologies is scaling out and up through innovation, workforce development and a sustainability strategy that creates long-term value for our business, customers, employees, shareholders and communities.  
 
Below is an overview of our report from our Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer, Mauro J. Atalla, highlighting the people, technologies and innovations behind our business sustainability.

A note from our Chief Technology & Sustainability Officer

The world is at a pivotal moment, with data and energy shaping the future of the global economy. At Trane Technologies, we see this not just as a challenge, but as our greatest opportunity to lead and innovate for a more sustainable world. We’re transforming climate and energy management in buildings, industry, data centers and transport, and we are embedding artificial intelligence (AI) into the core of our operations and products. This is creating smarter, more efficient systems that deliver tangible sustainability benefits for our customers and communities.

In this report, we highlight progress toward our 2030 Sustainability Commitments and our work with customers and partners to scale sustainable solutions. Scale takes many forms, from steady, incremental improvements that build over time, to breakthrough innovations that shift entire industries. Our success depends on both: daily actions that reflect our values and bold ideas that accelerate change and our purpose.

A global climate innovator

We deliver energy-efficient technologies at scale, lowering energy use and operating costs to generate environmental and economic benefits for our customers. Since 2019, we’ve helped customers avoid 331 million metric tons of emissions toward our Gigaton Challenge. In 2025, we introduced  110 new products that advanced next-generation HVAC and refrigerated transport, along with digital solutions to bolster sustainability for our customers. 

Powering sustainable performance

As demand for our products grows, so does the energy and materials needed to run our operations and manufacture our solutions. While our overall energy use has increased, we continue to find ways to use it more sustainably and efficiently. This year, 84% of our electricity came from renewable sources. We also reduced our operational emissions by 59% from our 2019 baseline, putting us ahead of our science-based target of a 50% reduction by 2030.

Our circularity strategy is not just about reducing waste; it's a core component of our growth and innovation engine. By designing products with longer lifespans and greater material efficiency, we are delivering more value to our customers and strengthening our business. In 2025, we committed to generating 10% of revenue from circular products and services and to more than double circular material use by 2030. While these 2030 goals are new, our commitment to circularity is not. This has long been a pathway for innovation and productivity at Trane Technologies. By the end of 2025, an average of 44% of the materials used in our products came from recycled content, and 80% of our sites achieved zero waste to landfill status.

Technology & talent that drive growth

Our breakthrough technology is brought to life by our talented people. We are committed to fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning, where our experts can thrive and solve the world's most complex climate challenges. In 2025, we opened two new facilities in Davidson, North Carolina, dedicated to workforce development and technical innovation: our Advanced Technology Training Center, the world’s largest facility for HVAC technician skill building, and our Advanced Concepts & Capabilities Laboratory, where engineers conduct specialized low‑temperature testing on some of our largest systems.

We also celebrated the 100-year anniversary of our Graduate Training Program and the first graduating class of our nationally accredited Technician Apprenticeship Program, with these programs expanding our future with talent and ingenuity. And we’ve maintained world-class safety performance and top‑quartile engagement, proof that sustainability starts with caring for our people.