Vodafone Group Plc ESG addendum
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Protecting our Planet
Empowering People
Building Trust
Other information
Greenhouse gas ( ‘GHG’ ) emissions Reporting Criteria
We provide connectivity and digital solutions that help to enable the climate transition and aim to empower others to reduce GHG emissions and improve the efficiency of resource usage. We are working to minimise the environmental footprint of our operations, our value chain and our products and services – through reaching net zero and improving the circularity of the technology we use and sell. This year, we continued to embed our Protect the Planet strategy across our business. Our Climate Transition Plan outlines the actions we aim to take during FY25 to FY27 to reduce our GHG emissions (including Scopes 1, 2 and 3) in line with our net zero pathway and to build business reliance in response to climate change. This year, we had a continued focus on driving energy efficiency across our mobile and fixed-line networks, phasing out the use of fossil fuels and increased renewable sources of energy for both our stationary equipment and vehicle fleet.
Protecting our planet
GHG emissions are calculated in millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (million tonnes CO 2 e) and reported in accordance with the GHG Protocol Standards, UK Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting ( ‘ SECR ’ ) requirements, RE100 Technical Guidance and the Carbon Disclosure Standards Board ( ‘ CDSB ’ ) framework. We have applied the operational control approach for the accounting of our GHG emissions and the scope of the data collected is based on this method. This is defined as operations where we have control over how energy is being used (and therefore associated services). Emissions from operations where we do not have operational control but have a financial interest i.e. shareholding, or are part of our wider value chain (e.g. suppliers) where we do not have a financial interest, are accounted for within our Scope 3 GHG emissions. Standards and guidance Our methodology for the reporting of GHG emissions has been developed using the following standards and guidance: GHG Protocol standards and guidance, including the Corporate Standard (revised edition); Scope 2 Guidance and Scope 3 Calculation Guidance; and Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard; and The Climate Disclosure Standards Board Climate Change Reporting Framework (January 2022).
8 Scope 1 Methodology 10 Scope 2 Methodology 12 Scope 3 Methodology 20 Carbon Enablement 28 Energy
30 Waste and Water 30 Intensity metrics 30 Environmental Accreditations
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