Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Environment
• Social
• Governance

Environmental Achievements

• Increased renewable energy share to approximately 15% of total purchased electricity consumption (including electric vehicles) in 2023 (compared to 10% in 2022).
• Decreased Scope 2 emissions compared to the previous year.
• Decreased emissions from waste generation compared to 2022.

Social Achievements

• Implemented various employee retention initiatives, including flexible working hours, work-from-home arrangements, and various social events.
• Organised various training programs and academies for employee development.
• Initiated various initiatives to support employee mental health.

Governance Achievements

• Established a new Compliance Director role to oversee compliance strategy and culture.
• Implemented a new compliance framework.
• No significant instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations or corruption were confirmed in 2023.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Increased expenses due to regulation, pricing of GHG emissions, and expansion of the emission trading system.
• Enhanced emissions reporting obligations related to disclosures.
• Negative stakeholder feedback relating to data privacy incidents.
• Chronic frequent heat waves leading to higher energy consumption.
• Acute storm or tornados causing damage to data centres and/or offices.

Mitigation Strategies

• Considering decarbonisation KPIs, decreasing energy consumption, increasing energy efficiency and carbon offsetting, utilising renewable energy, utilising e-mobility in the company fleet, utilising carbon credits while developing and updating future group ESG strategy.
• Monitoring the upcoming CSRD and EU Taxonomy requirements, preparing a transition plan to fulfil the requirements, making investments to comply with regulations and to meet stakeholders’ expectations, disclosing sustainability-related information in the format required by current legislation and stakeholders.
• Active stakeholder engagement, maintaining and communicating the channels for raising concerns, transparent disclosure of ESG data, adequate PR strategy.
• Gradually upgrading air-conditioning systems to achieve higher effectiveness.
• Periodically reviewing business continuity plans.

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Not disclosed

Responsible Procurement

• Partnering with well-established global brands that adhere to ESG principles.

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Chronic Frequent heat waves
• Storm or tornados

Transition Risks

• Regulation, pricing of GHG emissions
• Enhanced emissions reporting obligations
• Emerging data centre energy rules

Opportunities

• Developing software and IT infrastructure with lower energy demand
• Higher customer demand based on ARICOMA’s ESG performance

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI Standards (2021)

Certifications: ISO 14001:2015

Third-party Assurance: PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit, s. r. o.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 3
• Goal 4
• Goal 7
• Goal 8
• Goal 12
• Goal 13
• Goal 16

ARICOMA Group identified these SDGs as potential focus areas where the group can positively contribute to global efforts.

Sustainable Products & Innovation

• HPE GreenLake services
• ServiceNow implementation
• Household Property Insurance
• Adaptation of Core Insurance System for Euro Compatibility
• Multi-level protection of users and data at the Military Hospital Olomouc
• Reliable operation of the LOG Point 112 storage facility
• SOLSOL transitioning to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Awards & Recognition

• First prize in the Central Europe region in the category “PC Partner of the Year” at the HP Amplify Partner Conference.
• Most significant award for 2022 in the field of IBM security (AUTOCONT).