Climate Change Data

Enthusiast Gaming Holdings Inc.

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2023-01 to 2023-09, 2024-01 to 2024-06)

Reporting Period: 2023-01 to 2023-09

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Governance
  • Social
  • Environmental

Environmental Achievements

  • Provides a hybrid working environment, encouraging virtual meetings to reduce travel and minimize carbon footprint.
  • Supports the Games Forest Club through donations for every PGC ticket sold to offset event-related carbon footprint.

Social Achievements

  • Launched four Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): Prism (LGBTQIA+), Tetris (People of Color), Joysticks (Mental Health), RYG (Women's Affinity).
  • Luminosity Gaming rosters three competitive women's teams and two top women Battle Royale players.
  • Numerous engaging events and discussions took place in 2023, including a women's mentorship program.

Governance Achievements

  • Adopted new social, governance, and IT policies, including a Diversity Policy, Parental Leave Policy, Vacation and Leave Policy, and Referral Policy.
  • Establishing a new ERP system to enhance control environment, increase operational efficiencies, and maintain high-quality reporting.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Softening of digital advertisement demand and spending due to uncertain economic outlooks.
  • Decline in the Company’s share price resulting in market capital being lower than the net assets of the Company.
  • Goodwill impairment charges on multiple CGUs.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Stringent cash flow management to ensure sufficient liquidity.
  • Amended and restated commitment letter with primary lender to provide additional liquidity and defer certain payments.
  • Prioritizing profitable channels and deploying new content to TikTok.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Awards & Recognition

  • FPS Game of the Year and Esports Game of the Year at the Web3 Gam3rs Choice Awards
  • Best esports title and best multiplayer title at the Polkastarter GAM3 Awards

Reporting Period: 2024-01 to 2024-06

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Environment
  • Social
  • Governance

Environmental Achievements

  • Provides a hybrid working environment, encouraging virtual meetings to reduce travel and minimize carbon footprint.
  • Supports the Games Forest Club, donating for every PGC ticket sold to offset event-related carbon footprint.

Social Achievements

  • Launched numerous new social and governance policies in 2023, including a Diversity Policy, Parental Leave Policy, and a new Vacation and Leave Policy.
  • Established four Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) in 2023: Prism (LGBTQIA+), Tetris (People of Color), Joysticks (Mental Health), and RYG (Women’s Affinity).

Governance Achievements

  • Board of Directors regularly reviews corporate governance practices and procedures.
  • Establishing a new ERP system to enhance control environment, increase operational efficiencies, and maintain high-quality reporting.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Overall macroeconomic conditions including increasing interest rates, high inflation, and softening of digital advertisement demand.
  • Decline in Company’s share price.
  • Decrease in the number of third-party publishers.
  • Decrease in video views and web pageviews.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Cost savings initiatives and operational efficiencies including efficiencies in ad tech, consolidation of offices, insourcing of production and content resources, and headcount reductions.
  • De-prioritization of video platform to reduce operating costs.
  • Focus on owned and operated websites and select represented websites.
  • Partnership with Playwire to accelerate ad tech tools and optimize revenue.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities