2023 has been a year of measuring, organising, and understanding. By looking critically and objectively at where we are now – in our company structure, production chains, and workflows – we can identify where we need to go. In this way we can make the most impactful transitions in all areas of work.
Our three goals therefore involve gathering and analysing information in order to establish a clear roadmap and goals. Alongside various other projects and initiatives, we are working on establishing a roadmap towards our own Net-Zero target, running analyses and assessments on our living wage gap, and taking steps towards becoming a certified B Corporation.
For 2023 we have pinpointed, and also achieved, three key goals:
We have spent the last years putting major investments into the energy transition, and implementing methodologies to work towards Climate Neutrality. We have placed a solar farm with an enormous capacity on top of the new Flight Forum building. This farm has an annual capacity of 1.000.000 kWh per year. This can power our entire Flight Forum and more, so we are installing transformers to be able to store surplus energy on site. We are also working on removing gas from all our other existing buildings and warehouses.
This year we have also formally implemented the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) protocol, and have completed Scope 1, 2, and 3. You can read more about this here. Our next step is to collaborate with the SBTi (Science Based Target initiative) to calculate an end-date for our Net-Zero target.
Living wage is the minimum income someone requires to meet their basic needs, and is dependent on the cost of living in a country. As part our our commitment to and collaboration with the UNGC we want to ensure that all employees of i-team Global worldwide earn a decent living wage. In order to do this we ran a living wage gap assessment, and established a roadmap to close this gap.
Various positive changes were brought about by running this assessment. For example, once the management team in China was made aware of the living wage standards, they implemented changes in the salary scales. By following the roadmap we can work towards closing the living wage gap completely, turning this into a longterm commitment and standard.
B Corporations are organisations which work to balance people and profit, and collectively build a regenerative economy. The B Impact Assessment is the first step towards a B Corp Certification. The assessment measures an organisation’s impact performance across five categories: governance, workers, community, the environment, and customers. Preparing the organisation, and gathering all the information and metrics necessary for the assessment was one of our biggest goals for this year. In June 2023 we were proud to submit our B Impact Assessment.
Becoming a B Corp connects us to a network of over 7,000 organisations that share our sustainability mission. Becoming a B Corp is not a goal in and of itself, but provides us with a framework from which we can establish strategic roadmaps and set goals that enable us to continuously improve.
