Colt Know-how Providers, the digital infrastructure firm, has revealed its third Sustainability Report. The report tracks progress for Colt Group – comprising Colt Know-how Providers and Colt Information Centre Providers – towards targets set for the 12 months ending thirty first December 2023 within the areas of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), and towards longer-term targets to internet zero. The previous 12 months have seen Colt launch an bold new ESG technique; safe the best EcoVadis score for the second consecutive yr; and obtain ‘A-‘ and ‘A’ CDP (Carbon Disclosure Venture) scores for sustainability and provider engagement.
These and different achievements are highlighted within the report as Colt welcomes 1000 new workers and integrates new applied sciences and geographies following its acquisition of Lumen EMEA in November 2023– a strategic transfer to supply clients with world scale and know-how innovation, and to generate sustained development for Colt.
Keri Gilder, CEO, Colt Know-how Providers mentioned, “Colt is an organization that cares deeply, which is why we concentrate on sustainability by design. `We will change the world’ is one among our values and it informs, shapes and evokes the whole lot we do. Nowhere is that this higher mirrored than in our newest Sustainability Report. The fervour and great power we have now as a enterprise to do higher for our planet, our folks and our clients may be seen on each web page, in each metric and in each stride in the direction of our purpose to succeed in internet zero greenhouse fuel emissions by 2045. I’m extremely pleased with the progress we’re making to construct a greater world.”
Key progress to succeed in internet zero highlighted within the report contains:
34% discount in CO2e emissions towards the 2019 baseline, 6% towards the earlier yr
71.5% discount in Colt Group’s Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions in comparison with the 2019 base yr; a discount 22.5% year-over-year
6% discount in Scope 3 emissions in comparison with 2022
78% of the Scope 2 electrical energy procured for Colt’s world websites is renewable; a 4% enchancment since 2022
30% of Colt’s fleet is now absolutely electrical and an extra 38% are Plug-In Hybrid Electrical Automobiles
89% of suppliers have signed Colt’s Code of Enterprise Conduct
40% of Colt’s Scope 3 emissions are with suppliers which have already set a Science Primarily based Goal
Colt is now a participant within the UN World Compact, a voluntary initiative, based mostly on CEO commitments, to implement common sustainability ideas and to take steps to help the UN Objectives.
Colt has been concerned in a Scope 3 emissions workstream via the World Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), the main cross-industry sustainability initiative to create digital options for society’s most urgent challenges. Along with the Worldwide Telecommunications Union (ITU) and GSMA, GeSI and its members have developed new steering particularly for the telecommunications sector on reporting Scope 3 emissions produced by the suppliers. The Scope 3 steering for telecommunication operators gives an in depth understanding of classes for Scope 3 analysis and establishes guiding ideas for telecommunications operators to allocate, calculate and report the emissions of their provide chain
Additional highlights from across the Colt enterprise outlined within the 2023 report embrace:
The launch of a World Social Impression Technique that goals to empower Colt’s communities via digital training and inclusion
A 24% year-over-year enhance in worker volunteering days; 867 days given by workers to volunteer at exterior charities and initiatives in 2023
Versatile First, Connection Days and Tradition Buddy programme as optimistic contributors to inclusive firm tradition
Programmes and plans together with
o Gender Motion Plan to enhance gender steadiness all through the enterprise
o RISE – programme for rising expertise from underrepresented backgrounds
o Allyship in Motion programme aimed toward bringing allyship to life
o Optimising Accessibility – five-year accessibility enchancment plan
o Neurodiversity analysis and consciousness
o Menopause Reframed – menopause consciousness marketing campaign
o Pleasure cross-company collaboration, supporting LGBTQ+ colleagues in tech
o Participation in TC4RE – the know-how neighborhood for Racial Equality
In 2023, Colt was awarded the ISO27701 certification for its privateness data administration system, which is an extension of ISO27001. This World customary gives the framework for organisations trying to put in a system to help the compliance with the EU GDPR and different Information Privateness Necessities.
Colt acquired the best degree of certification beneath Spain’s Esquema Nacional de Seguridad (ENS), the Nationwide Safety Scheme. This achievement displays Colt’s dedication to the safety of data and our clients’ safety
Colt has joined Cease Scams UK, an industry-led collaboration of accountable companies from throughout the banking, telecoms and know-how sectors who’ve come collectively to ‘assist cease scams at supply’
