ESG Update: Our Climate Action Journey is Verified by Greenly

We’re on what the industry calls a climate journey. Now, we know the word journey tends to trigger an eye roll. These days, everything is a journey. Fine-tuning your new coffee maker? A journey. Renovating your house? Also, a journey, just a longer, more painful one. But despite that, journey is actually the correct word for what we’re doing — because this isn’t a quick fix. It’s a long, evolving path towards more sustainable practices.

On that journey, we’ve just reached a milestone and that’s worth celebrating! Break out the champagne - while you can, champagne production is already impacted by climate change - we’ve just taken a big step partnering with Greenly, a carbon accounting platform that independently verifies our climate strategy and helps us better track our emissions to drive greater reductions.

Who is Greenly?

“Greenly is instigating a bottom-up climate revolution making it simple for all companies and employees to start their climate journey.”

In time, it will be mandatory for companies to disclose their carbon emissions and Greenly are more than ready for when that day comes. Greenly provides highly scalable carbon accounting technology to support all sizes of businesses in the energy transition. They have over 1,000 customers, and their team consists of 150+ climate experts, data scientists, data analysts, data engineers and DevOps engineers. Suffice to say, they know what they’re talking about, and we’re delighted to partner with them to effectively drive climate action.

Proactively Capturing and Reducing Carbon Emissions at ROBUS

Greenly are very clear that solving the climate equation begins with measuring emissions. This is the strategic route to net zero. Currently, only 25% of global GHG emissions (greenhouse gas) are tracked and managed. While this is disappointing, we are proud to be among those proactively contributing to real climate action.

Greenly breaks down their measurement process as follows:

• Measure
• Reduce
• Report
• Remove

Simple right? Measuring carbon emissions is not as straightforward as it sounds. Greenly’s carbon accounting methodology identifies three “scopes” of emissions that need to be determined:

Scope 1 I Direct emissions

GHG emissions generated directly by the organisation and its activities.

Examples: combustion of fossil fuels, refrigerant leaks, etc.

Scope 2 I Indirect emissions related to energy consumption

Emissions related to the organisation’s consumption of electricity, heat or steam.

Example: electricity consumption, etc.

Scope 3 I Other indirect emissions

Emissions related to the organisation’s upstream and downstream operations and activities

Example: transportation, purchased goods and services, sold products, etc.

As you can see, this is a very thorough measurement process. By being able to get to this granular level of detail, Greenly can identify precisely the areas we should work on to mitigate our environmental impact.

We’ve Earned a Silver Medal from Greenly

We have earned a Silver Medal with Greenly which puts us in the top 15% of their clients in terms of reporting transparency and accuracy of data. This is hugely positive and a great achievement! Of course, there is also work to do to continue to improve our efforts.

Our next steps include conducting a full review of recommended actions, holding a climate strategy meeting with stakeholders, promoting employee awareness with monthly engagement sessions, reviewing our carbon contribution options, and reinvesting in internal programs in our companies and within our supply chain.

Keep an Eye Out for Our Next ESG Update

We’ll be sharing a more detailed breakdown of our report from Greenly with clear actions as to what we will do next to reduce carbon emissions and help create a more sustainable future for everyone.