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Our Footprint

Creative’s first greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions measurements cover Fiscal Year 2022 des États-Unis. operations in the Washington, D.C., région, which account for our Scope 1 et 2 as per the Greenhouse Gas Protocol guidelines. Also included are major relevant sources for Scope 3 emissions, specifically all business travel – including project and business growth-related travel from Headquarters – and HQ employee commutes. Cependant, other sources (including waste management and purchased goods) were not included in this initial scope.

In addition to HQ operations, we included a selection of our existing U.S. government-funded projects. Project selection was carried out considering data availability, data quality and geographical priorities. Based on these criteria, this initial measure focused on programs in Honduras, Guatemala and Nigeria. Taken together, this represents about 15 percent of our global operations.

Given that our base year is FY22, we recognize that our first-year measurement was affected by global conditions, most specifically COVID-19 travel restrictions and fluctuating remote work policies, which will continue to shift in future years. Dans 2022, Creative moved its Headquarters to an environmentally certified building in Chevy Chase, Maryland, a factor that positively impacted our GHG emissions footprint. As we embark on this long-term commitment to measure and report our footprint, we will continue to learn about impacts and extend the scope of our measurements.

Creative’s total footprint for the scope included in the FY2022 measurement (HQ operations in the United States and program work in three countries) est 1,224 Metric Tons of Carbon equivalent (MTCO2e). Comme indiqué ci-dessus, this calculation is for approximately 15 percent of Creative’s global operations. With this in mind, Creative’s global footprint (Scopes 1, 2 et 3) is currently estimated between 1,401 et 2,047 metric tons. This equates to approximately 1.7 à 2.59 MTCO2e per employee: an average of 2.18 MTCO2e per employee.

For subsequent annual measurement efforts, we plan to include more of our projects by establishing processes and procedures that will ensure data availability and quality across our portfolio. FY22 will be our base year to start discussing and implementing improvement initiatives and establish science-based goals to do our part towards a more sustainable planet. Once our baseline is established, our goals will be set as a percent reduction at least 1% reduction per employee (average MTCO2e per employee) to be reviewed annually. This will include developing adequate indicators, such as travel per employee or electricity emissions per office square meter, that allow us to measure our footprint and efforts in a reliable manner.

We are excited to embark on this long-term commitment.

Getting the numbers right

As part of our commitment to comply with GHG Protocol’s technical and data quality standards, Creative selected Futuris Consulting, a Costa Rica-based company to help with an initial calculation of Creative’s carbon footprint. Avec 15 years of experience working with clients like Banco Nacional, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, BID Invest and ecoBusiness Fund, Futuris Consulting provides world-class services with local passion and commitment from a multidisciplinary team of sustainability consultants.

Futuris Consulting provided technical support, established boundaries and measured Creative’s carbon footprint in alignment with the GHG protocol, as required by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). They also reviewed data quality and provided input to improve future assessments. We look forward to including Futuris’ recommendations to better estimate our footprint and to take adequate preventive and mitigating measures.