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Capgemini amongst the first companies globally to have its web zero targets validated in accordance to the SBTi’s new Net-Zero Standard
The Group has set extra bold short-term and long-term carbon discount targets, together with reaching a 90% discount in all carbon emissions throughout scope 1, 2 and three by 2040, and is contributing to defining new methodologies to drive local weather motion
Paris, September 16, 2022 – In preserving with its continued dedication to combat local weather change according to the newest local weather science, Capgemini participated, all through 2019-2021, in the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) session to assist design the new Net Zero Standard1, main to its publication in October 2021. Accordingly, Capgemini is saying the validation by SBTi of its new long-term (2040) and brief time period (2030) web zero carbon discount targets.
Capgemini’s new targets are:
- The Group’s new long-term web zero goal is to obtain a 90% discount in all carbon emissions throughout scopes 1, 2 and three by 2040 in contrast to a baseline of 20192;
- Its near-term (2030) scope 3 targets for commuting and business journey have been strengthened to a 55% discount per worker from a 2019 baseline (in contrast to 50% per worker discount from a 2015 baseline);
- Its scope 1 and a couple of targets (80% absolute discount by 2030) in addition to scope 3 provide chain targets (50% absolute discount by 2030) have additionally been strengthened by revising the baseline 12 months from 2015 to 2019.
“The climate crisis demands bold actions, such as the new targets we have set for the Group, leading to a 90% absolute carbon reduction covering our entire value chain,” mentioned Aiman Ezzat, Chief Executive Officer of the Capgemini Group. “Transitioning to a low carbon economy will also require more innovation and collaboration with our partners, clients and suppliers. We welcome the clarity and transparency the new SBTi Standard brings to the field and will continue to work with partners like SBTi and Forum for the Future, and to accelerate the journey towards an inclusive and sustainable future.”
Contributing to the international dialog on carbon measurement
In addition to decreasing its personal carbon footprint, Capgemini has the ambition to assist its purchasers save not less than 10 million tons of CO2e by 2030, by a brand new framework of sustainability provides. To measure its progress, the Group has developed an inner measurement software3, and has simply printed a brand new report, “Measuring impact: a methodology to inform transformative project design”, with worldwide sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future. The report, which will probably be offered at New York Climate Week 2022, explores the GHG Impact Methodology created by Capgemini. This methodology supplies steerage for skilled providers organizations on measuring the carbon influence of the sustainability transformation tasks they ship for purchasers. It is designed to allow extra correct and significant decision-making throughout the undertaking design section in addition to offering an correct influence calculation at the finish of a undertaking.
Becoming a web zero business
Capgemini was one among the first gamers in its sector, as early as 2016, to set SBTi validated science-based targets by way of carbon emission reductions. These had been reached in January 2020, ten years sooner than focused and forward of COVID lockdowns. Since then, the Group has rolled out a ten-point international program spanning throughout business journey, worker commuting, workplace and knowledge middle vitality, in addition to the emissions from bought items and providers.
The Group has proactively engaged with its prime 100 suppliers (accounting for round 50% of all provide chain emissions) and is at the moment transitioning to 100% renewable electrical energy by 2025. Capgemini has additionally not too long ago launched a singular Energy Command Center (ECC), which makes use of digitalization and the exploitation of measured and projected knowledge to monitor and handle vitality efficiency throughout its campuses in India, which account for a couple of quarter of the Group’s vitality footprint. With an estimated 20% discount in vitality consumption since its launch, the ECC is making a fabric contribution to its sustainable growth initiatives.
The Group’s efforts in chopping carbon emissions, mitigating local weather dangers and creating the low-carbon economy have been acknowledged earlier this 12 months by its place in CDP’s A-list.
To discover out extra about Capgemini’s Environmental Sustainability coverage or learn the 2021/2022 Environmental Sustainability report, please go to https://www.capgemini.com/about-us/csr/environmental-sustainability/environmental-sustainability-reports/
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a world chief in partnering with companies to remodel and handle their business by harnessing the energy of expertise. The Group is guided on a regular basis by its function of unleashing human vitality by expertise for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a accountable and various group of over 350,000 crew members in additional than 50 international locations. With its robust 55-year heritage and deep trade experience, Capgemini is trusted by its purchasers to tackle the whole breadth of their business wants, from technique and design to operations, fueled by the quick evolving and revolutionary world of cloud, knowledge, AI, connectivity, software program, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2021 international revenues of €18 billion.
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Climate Week NYC is the time and place the place the world gathers to showcase superb local weather motion and talk about how to do extra. Run by the worldwide non-profit Climate Group, in partnership with the United Nations and the City of New York, Climate Week NYC yearly brings collectively voices from throughout the spectrum to debate and implement local weather motion. With over 500 occasions happening as a part of the official occasions program and internet hosting the most important leaders from business and authorities, Climate Week NYC is one among the largest annual local weather summits of its sort attracting international consciousness and participation.
1 The SBTi’s Corporate Net-Zero Standard is the world’s first framework for company net-zero goal setting according to local weather science. It contains the steerage, standards, and proposals companies want to set science-based net-zero targets according to limiting international temperature rise to 1.5°C.
2 With the last 10% of residual emissions neutralized by high-quality carbon elimination options.
3 Capgemini’s Carbon Impact Calculator was developed to measure the discount of CO2e emissions delivered by its consumer tasks. It permits consumer engagement groups to precisely calculate and report the environmental influence of their tasks on consumer carbon emissions. It contains performance for calculating the influence of gasoline, electrical energy, supply, knowledge middle, and water.
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