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3.3 Managing our environmental impact
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new regional emission factors for electricity – in line with
3.
guidance from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate
Standard, we are now using “regional” electricity emission
factors for the US (eGrid), Canada (National Inventory Report
though the overall impact on our total 2015 GHG emissions is
minimal (-0.25%);
2015 electricity emissions for the US by 8.6%, Canada by
7.7% and increased Australia’s electricity emissions by 4.5%,
2015) and Australia (National Greenhouse Account 2015) and
the UK keeps using DEFRA classification. This has reduced
transition to IEA emission factors – with the exception of the
4.
UK (which uses emission factors from the Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)), US, Canada
and Australia (which are mentioned above), for all other
countries Scope 2 Electricity Emissions are now calculated
more recent IEA factors for each country;
discontinued by DEFRA this year). This has reduced our 2015
emissions by 0.7%, largely due to the fact that we are using
using the International Energy Agency (IEA) electricity emission
factors, rather than DEFRA factors (country level factors were
due to the timing of the production of this report, Q4 2016
data has been estimated for most countries. This year, we
new commitment to audit full year data – as in previous years,
actual data once it becomes available, meaning we will have a
full year of audited actual data. Our intention is to publish our
have asked our auditor KPMG to run a final review of Q4 2016
full year results during H1 2017.
Group targets
targets in place in our larger entities including India, France, the
GHG emissions. For the last few years, Capgemini’s emission
reduction activities have been driven at a country level, with
The Paris Agreement on climate change has further underlined the
need for businesses to take swift and significant action in reducing
UK, Brazil, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, USA and Canada.
new ambitious Group targets this year, which will be measured
against our restated 2015 baseline. These targets will support
To demonstrate our Group-wide commitment, we have set four
the local level.
Capgemini entities in complying with the Group Environmental
Policy and provide a framework within which to drive agendas at
Headline target: To reduce total carbon emissions per employee by 20% by 2020.
This covers our total reported GHG emissions, with a focus on reducing these per employee. As a provider of services in consulting,
technology and outsourcing, people are at the centre of our business and the number of people we employ is the most significant factor in
supported by additional reduction targets focused on our three most significant sources of emissions:
determining our emissions. This headline target aims at disrupting the link between our total emissions and our growth as a business. It is
usage by 20% by 2020.
Office Energy:To reduce office energy
gas and diesel to light, heat and power our
This covers the use of electricity, district heating,
contribution to addressing the issue of energy
security, we focus our target on reducing energy
owned or leased offices. To ensure we drive
credible performance improvement and make a
just year on year emission factor changes as the
grid decarbonizes).
usage in kWh. This will mean progress comes
from actions taken to reduce our energy use, not
emissions by 25% by 2020.
Business travel: To reduce business travel
well as providing innovative technology that
where we can make a significant difference by
encouraging smart and sustainable travel, as
travel, taxi journeys, national and international
rail and hotel nights. We believe this is an area
challenges the need to travel.
business travel our employees undertake
including the use of private and leased cars, air
This target covers emissions from all types of
reduce our average data center PUE
to 1.5 by 2020.
Data Center Energy Efficiency:To
leased data centers, measured using
the industry metric of Power Usage
This target will focus on improving the
energy efficiency of our owned and
sites, we use a straight average of our
PUE across all our data centers.
standard method to measure data
centers energy efficiency across multiple
Effectiveness (PUE). In the absence of a
Measuring our environmental performance
Scope & methodology
We have estimated the data for the remaining 1.2% of operations,
by applying a relevant uplift to each emission source to account
which covers 28 countries (see the table at the end of
section 3.3.4 for details) representing 98.8% of Group headcount.
The environmental data presented in this report has been taken
from our Carbon Accounting and Sustainability Reporting system
for operations where we do not have data collection processes in
place. This estimated data is provided within the environmental
data tables at the end of this section labeled as ‘Other Operations’
and further explanations are given in the table footnotes.