ESG / Sustainability Report / 2022 ESG / Sustainability Report / 2022 Combating climate change DECARBONIZATION the Scope 3 inventory was further expanded to categories in processes In April 2023 we launched a project to develop a 4 (upstream transportation & distribution), 5 (waste decarbonization strategy and plan for the Group generated in operations) and 11 (use of sold products). companies at global level. GRI 302-1 305-1 305-2 305-3 The project is currently in the phase of identifying the The project calls for the establishment of targets for Scope decarbonization levers required to reach the targets, 1, 2 and 3 emissions aligned with the SBTi framework which will be subject to the approval of the SBTi with the For Engineering, the fight against climate change and by the end of 2024 and the expansion of reporting to all involvement of the management of the Procurement and safeguarding the environment represent key principles Group companies. After concluding data collection for all Environment areas and the R&D and business areas. of all company processes and essential values to be of the companies and the relative Group offices worldwide, supported and developed, also along with our customers. Considering the nature of our services, the environmental impact for which we are responsible is primarily linked to the activities of the Data Centers (Pont-Saint-Martin, Turin and Vicenza, after activities were discontinued at the The activities that may have a greater impact on climate Assago Data Center) and the more than 70 Group offices, change were reported in our Policy updated in 2021 including 53 in Italy3 and are constantly monitored to identify any actions , and derives mainly from municipal utilities such as the consumption of water, electricity for for improvement. The data representing the Group’s lighting and natural gas for heating. environmental performance in Italy are collected, processed and subsequently subject to a risks and In order to structure policies, procedures, responsibilities opportunities analysis that generates concrete measures Environmental and activities so as to properly oversee topics relating to be taken more or less promptly on the basis of the to protecting local areas, we have for some time now assigned degree of significance. implemented an environmental management system certified in accordance with the ISO 14001 international The Rome office, which hosts roughly 20% of the Group’s standard, which covers our Italian offices in Rome, Pont- employees, has the LEED certification developed by the Environmental Saint-Martin, Vicenza, Naples and Palermo and all of U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), which is given to the companies operating there (Engineering Ingegneria buildings that guarantee excellent performance in terms of Informatica, Municipia, Engineering D.HUB, Nexen, Livebox energy and water savings, materials and resources used, and WebResults). design and site selection, reduction of CO2 emissions and improvement in indoor environmental quality. Bearing Furthermore, bearing witness to the efforts made in witness to our commitment, in 2022 that certification was calculating its carbon footprint, the Group has obtained also obtained at Gold level for the new Milan office. the ISO 14064-1:2018 certification relating to monitoring greenhouse gas emissions4 . In order to improve its understanding of its environmental impacts, the Group decided to expand the scope of the certification (which until 2021 was limited only to Engineering Ingegneria Informatica) to the group’s other Italian companies. The certification standard aims to quantify the greenhouse gas emissions of companies and verify how they are reported on and calculated. 3 Energy consumption and associated emissions do not refer to all Italian Group companies. For each quantitative data, the reporting boundary of each envi- ronmental indicator is specified within the tables. 4 In particular, the scope of the certification includes Engineering, D.Hub, Municipia, Nexen, WebResults, Cybertech and Livebox. 22 Engineering © Engineering © 23