As of the reporting year 2010, we have implemented an emission calculator with ‘myclimate’ to centrally collect and evaluate our CO2 footprint. This year’s results will serve as basis for defining reduction targets going forward.
As we introduced our new and comprehensive environmental data reporting method with the ‘myclimate’ emission calculator in 2010, there is only a limited comparability of environmental data with previous years. Therefore, we do not integrate the data from recent periods in the tables below.
EN1 Materials used by weight or volume
The main materials we use for our office-based business are common office supply materials.
| Total consumption 2010 | Data basis |
Materials | 18,080 metric tonnes | 11.5% |
Toner (modelled from paper consumption) | 181 kg | 11.5% |
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Energy source | 137,437,090 kWh | 24.9% |
Natural gas | (unknown) |
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Heating oil | (unknown) |
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Fuel/diesel (business cars) | (unknown) |
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Withdrawal by source | 9,924,287 m3 | 6.7% |
EN16 Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions
The table below gives an overview of some of our scope 1 and 2 emissions, based on the ‘The Greenhouse Gas Protocol: A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard’. More details on the methodology are provided in our Carbon Disclosure Project response 2011, which is available at www.cdproject.net
Source | Scope | Emissions 2010 | Coverage | Data basis |
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Own business cars | 1 (direct) | 85,683 | 100% | 14.5% |
Electricity | 2 (indirect) | 64,651 | 78%* | 24.9% |
EN17 Total other indirect greenhouse gas emissions
The table below gives an overview of some of our scope 3 emissions, based on the ‘The Greenhouse Gas Protocol: A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard’. More details on the methodology are provided in our Carbon Disclosure Project response 2011, which is available at www.cdproject.net
Source | Scope | Emissions 2010 | Coverage (% FTEs) | Data basis |
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Electricity | 3 (indirect) | 24.678 | 78% [1] | 24.9% |
Own business cars | 3 (indirect) | 46,631 | 100% | 14.5% |
Rental cars | 3 (indirect) | 1,956 | 100% | 22.1% |
Air travel | 3 (indirect) | 6,407 | 100% | 72.0% [2] |
Paper | 3 (indirect) | 23.815 | 100% | 11.5% |
Toner | 3 (indirect) | 7.574 | 100% | 11.5% |
New lap-/desktops | 3 (indirect) | 15.895 | 100% | 100% |
[1]For 10 of Adecco’s major markets (representing 80% of our FTE), we measured the electricity consumption in some sites (representing 25% of our FTE) and then extrapolated within each country to 100%. As the CO2-emission factors for electricity vary very much from country to country, we did not extrapolate into other countries. Therefore, our total gross global scope 2 figure represents only 80% of our total business, respectively comprises level of uncertainty of more than 30%.
[2]Data basis relating to total staff of all HQs Group-wide. More adequate, since air travelling mainly occurs amongst HQ staff.