Month: April 2023

Originally published by National Parks Foundation

Part of the Subaru-funded Don’t Feed the Landfills Initiative, Yosemite’s composting and fuel cylinder diversion and recycling programs have grown tremendously over the last year. One woman, Tina Moseley, leads the charge.

“Just a heads up, it’s going to smell pretty bad,” Tina Moseley said, peering down into the compost bin’s undistinguishable mass of eggshells, apple cores, soggy paper, and mystery slop.

As the Don’t Feed the Landfills and Sustainability Coordinator at Yosemite National Park, a position funded by Subaru, Moseley built and implemented most of the composting and fuel cylinder recycling program for the park and the surrounding communities.

For Yosemite National Park, Moseley and her colleagues hope that change will look like diverting as much waste as possible and composting or recycling everything else. The impact, they hope, will help both Yosemite and the gateway communities surrounding the 750,000+ acre park.

Mariposa County, home to much of the park, has a population of 17,000, while Yosemite National Park hosts roughly 4 million visitors each year. The contrast of populations means that Yosemite National Park’s waste footprint places an outsized burden on the surrounding communities responsible for processing waste.

In response, Subaru worked with the National Park Foundation (NPF), the National Parks Conservation Association, and park concessionaires to launch the Don’t Feed the Landfills initiative at three of the country’s iconic national parks – Denali National Park and Preserve, Grand Teton National Park, and Yosemite National Park.

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Suzano is a Brazilian company guided by the purpose of “Renewing life inspired by trees.” We are the world’s largest pulp producer and one of the largest paper producers in Latin America, and a benchmark in the development of sustainable and innovative bio-based solutions. Our products are part of the lives of more than 2 billion people in approximately 100 countries.

To showcase the progress made by Suzano toward a more sustainable future and as part of our commitment to transparency, we are publishing our 2022 Sustainability Report, which details Suzano’s financial and ESG performance in Brazil and abroad. The document also describes the progress we made regarding our business strategy and the implementation of our Commitments to Renewing Life, our long-term targets related to people and the planet.

Despite the challenging macroeconomic environment in 2022, marked by inflationary pressure and high interest rates, Suzano achieved solid financial results and made important progress regarding its strategic agenda, increasing its ability to generate and share value with stakeholders.

The Report also highlights the company’s vision that the future of our business depends on our ability to innovate, through the development of sustainable products that are made from renewable sources and promote the bioeconomy. Accordingly, we are committed to being, today, leaders in the creation of this future of biopossibilities and in the pursuit of solutions to current and urgent problems, such as the climate emergency.

Check out some of Suzano’s highlights in 2022:

Progress regarding the Commitments to Renewing Life, including: more than 18,300 people lifted out of poverty in Brazil, totaling 29,600 since 2020; progress in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; 179,400 hectares of restoration for ecological corridors in our protected areas in the three focus biomes (Amazon, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest) for our commitment to biodiversity conservation.Improvement of the main ESG indices and ratings: low risk classification by Sustainalytics; top 10% in the industry in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index; “A” score in CDP’s Water Security questionnaire; and Top 10 in the S&P Yearbook 2023.Inclusion in The 2022 GlobeScan – Sustainability Leaders Survey as one of 17 global companies recognized for integrating sustainability into business strategy.Launch, during COP27, of the company Biomas, formed in partnership with Marfrig, Vale and the banks Itaú Unibanco, Rabobank and Santander to restore and conserve 4 million hectares of land.Start of the largest forest formation program in the world, planting approximately 1.2 million seedlings per day.R$7.4 billion invested in the Cerrado Project, Suzano’s new pulp mill under construction in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, which, when it starts operations in 2024, will be the company’s most competitive unit.

Suzano’s 2022 Report is available in two browsable PDF formats:

2022 Sustainability Report, a more concise document about our performance2022 Sustainability Report | Complementary Information, with more details and in-depth information

Our Report was prepared in accordance with the 2021 Standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the metrics of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics. Its content has been assured by PwC.

We invite you to read both documents that make up our 2022 Report. For more information, check out Suzano’s Sustainability Center, a content hub that includes approximately 450 ESG performance indicators.

If you have comments or suggestions, contact us at relatoriosuzano@suzano.com.br

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Hawthorn Advisors – Suzano’s PR Agency
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Email: suzano@hawthornadvisors.com – Phone: +44 (0)7565 621 723

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Tetra Tech released our 2023 Sustainability Report, advancing our commitment to improving the lives of 1 billion people by 2030.

Tetra Tech’s 2023 Sustainability Report, in honor of Earth Day, shares our progress to improve the lives of 1 billion people by 2030, reporting a total of 545 million lives improved around the world to date.

For nearly 60 years, we have leveraged cutting-edge expertise and the latest technology to provide more sustainable solutions to clients and continually improve the way we do business. The environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles we apply to our projects are reinforced through our commitment to the United Nations (UN) Global Compact and Science Based Targets Initiative.

Our commitment to sustainability is holistic, rooted in our internal culture, and extends throughout our projects around the world. Tetra Tech is developing industry-leading solutions for safe water supplies, net zero energy programs, biodiversity preservation and restoration, and community resilience across the globe.

Improving lives through our 1 Billion People Challenge

Tetra Tech’s greatest impact on the world is through the more than 100,000 projects our scientists, engineers, and technical specialists perform each year across more than 100 countries. We support our clients as they work to improve sustainability of water supplies, increase biodiversity, reduce carbon emissions, increase renewable energy generation, restore ecosystems, and implement responsible social and governance programs.

Last year Tetra Tech launched the first-of-its-kind measurement of the global impact of our projects and progress toward our 1 Billion People Challenge, which measures project impact and lives improved around the world. With the addition of 138 million people over the past year, we have advanced to 545 million people’s lives improved.

We align our project impact analysis with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and track the ESG benefits of the projects we perform across five key metrics, reporting the following additions:

502 billion gallons of water per year treated, saved, or reused1,023 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy per year identified, planned, or generated6.7 million hectares (ha) of land and water ecosystems per year protected, managed, or restored80.6 million metric tons (MT) of CO2e avoided or captured32.2 million lives benefited from social and governance programs

In our Sustainability Report, we highlight global projects from 2022 that contribute to our baseline metrics. They are representative of the tens of thousands of projects we perform for our clients that improve lives each day.

Mitigating climate impacts through sustainable business practices

Tetra Tech set a 2030 goal to reduce our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from operations by 50 percent from our 2021 baseline. This goal reaffirms our commitment to a reduction in GHG emissions and aligns with the global 1.5-degree Celsius target of the Paris Agreement.

In 2022 our total GHG emissions from global operations was 48,188 MT CO2e, or 2.08 MT CO2e per employee. Our GHG emissions decreased by 25 percent per employee for Scope 1 and 2, which includes operationally related direct impacts and indirect impacts such as purchase of electricity and heat. We continued to expand upon the scope of data sets included in our Scope 3 emissions, including business travel (air, rental car, hotel, and fleet vehicle miles traveled), upstream purchases and deliveries, and waste generation.

We took several actions that had a beneficial impact on our GHG emissions in the 2022 reporting year and which will continue in future years. In 2022 we reduced our overall office footprint per employee by 26 percent, decreasing to 132 square feet per employee, already achieving our 2030 goal of less than 150 square feet per employee. We also continue to leverage technology solutions to provide high connectivity, flexibility, cybersecurity, and efficiencies for all our employees.

Promoting employee development and inclusion

Tetra Tech’s foundation is our people—our engineers, scientists, and technical specialists who create innovative solutions for our clients’ complex challenges. In 2022 we reaffirmed our commitment to nurture a thriving employee community by supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across our operations. We are tracking our progress toward workforce gender balance, racial and ethnic diversity, employee engagement, and professional development goals. Our global Employee Resource Groups (ERG) Program, which fosters a safe, supportive environment where all voices are heard and all employees feel safe and can thrive, saw a 35 percent increase in employee participation during 2022.

A thriving community is a healthy community, and Tetra Tech recognizes the importance of our employees’ mental and physical health in the office, in the field, and in their personal lives. In 2022 we saw a 39 percent increase in employee engagement in corporate wellness initiatives. Our wellness initiatives include quarterly Wellness Webinars, a Wellness Week as part of our holistic Safety Month campaign, and our annual 30-day Healthy Life Challenge and year-round Healthy Life Community. These programs encourage employees and their families to live healthy, balanced lives at work and at home.

Our offices around the world demonstrated their commitment to social and environmental sustainability by donating resources and volunteering their time to better the environment and enrich their local communities. Across our global operations, we support financial and in-kind giving, volunteering, and various community-based initiatives with a focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs. In 2022 Tetra Tech employees donated more than $492,000 to community programs around the world.

Advancing towards our sustainability goals

Sustainability at Tetra Tech is integrated across our global business, throughout our operations, projects, and community activities. We are working to reduce our GHG emissions, support global efforts to achieve the Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree Celsius target, and improve the lives of 1 billion people.

On behalf of our 27,000 employees at Tetra Tech, we reiterate our commitment to using our Leading with Science® approach to produce scalable solutions that will reduce the effects of climate change and contribute to a better world.

View Tetra Tech’s 2023 Sustainability Report.

April is National Volunteer Month and Entergy is celebrating in the best possible way, by giving back. Our employees are getting involved and volunteering at several Earth Week activities that are taking place this week across our communities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

Our employees and retirees logged a total of 110,810 volunteer hours in 2022. The hours employees spent volunteering last year increased by 10,200 hours compared to 2021, creating an economic impact of over $3 million across our service area.

We are passionate about giving back to our communities and making the world a brighter, more sustainable place to live. Throughout the year, Entergy strongly encourages employees and retirees to volunteer in the local communities, providing several volunteer resources and opportunities – and time to take off to do so.

“We’re proud of our employees and their commitment to give back year-round,” said Patty Riddlebarger, vice president of corporate social responsibility. “In honor of National Volunteer Month, Entergy continues its journey towards achieving our environmental goals and making a difference in our communities today, tomorrow and for future generations.”

Over the past decade, in addition to volunteer service, Entergy’s legal department employees have performed nearly 20,000 hours of pro bono services. That’s a $5.6 million in-kind donation to our local communities. Last year, our legal professionals donated more than 2,200 hours of pro bono time.

For more than 100 years, Entergy has proudly served its communities through charitable giving, volunteerism and advocacy. This achievement of reaching more than 110,000 volunteer hours is a significant milestone that reflects the company’s longstanding commitment to sustainability and the passion of its employees to make a positive impact across our region.

Our corporate social responsibility initiatives help create and sustain thriving communities, position the company for sustainable growth and are aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Our top CSR priorities are education/workforce development, poverty solutions and environmental programs. Each year, Entergy shareholders contribute $16-18 million in grants to more than 2,000 nonprofit organizations in the communities where we operate.