Vodafone Group Plc ESG addendum
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Protecting our Planet
Empowering People
Building Trust
Other information
We use a hybrid approach to calculating Scope 3 category 1 emissions.
Changes made to the methodology this year include:
1. Purchased goods and services Emissions from the extraction, production and transportation of goods and services purchased by Vodafone (through operating expenditure).
For the majority of purchased goods and services, we use a spend-based approach whereby our procurement spend on each product category is multiplied by a corresponding environmentally extended input-output ( ‘ EEIO ’ ) emission factor (drawn from third-party EEIO datasets). For a sub-set of purchased goods, namely mobile phone devices that are purchased from original manufacturers for retail to our customers, we use a product-specific approach, whereby the units of product purchased are multiplied by a corresponding cradle-to-gate product carbon footprint ( ‘ PCF ’ ). The PCF data is drawn from EcoRating datasets. For a sub-set of purchased services procured from 20 service-based suppliers, we use a supplier-specific approach whereby our procurement spend on each supplier is multiplied by the supplier’s organisational carbon footprint intensity (market-based Scope 1 and 2 plus upstream Scope 3 emissions) in tCO 2 e/mEUR, as disclosed through publicly available 2024 Climate Disclosure Project ( ‘ CDP ’ ) disclosures. We use a spend-based approach to calculating the emissions for capital goods purchased. Capital expenditure on each type of capital good is multiplied by a corresponding EEIO emission factor (drawn from third-party EEIO datasets).
– Improved granularity of third-party EEIO emission factors by transitioning from OECD UK-based, single region datasets to Exiobase global, detailed multi-region datasets; and – Further improvements to the mapping of EcoRating PCF data (to mobile handset models based on storage capacity and handset type e.g. smart or feature phone) applied to calculate emissions using the product-specific approach.
Changes made to the methodology this year include:
2. Capital Goods Emissions from the extraction, production and transportation of capital goods purchased by Vodafone (through capital expenditure).
– Improved granularity of third-party EEIO emission factors by transitioning from OECD UK-based, single region datasets to Exiobase global, detailed multi-region datasets.
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