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.