Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Impact
• Environment
• Governance
• Social

Environmental Achievements

• Migrated US Core K12 services to a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) hosted environment using 92% renewable energy, from an environment using only 53% renewable energy. This reduced our carbon emissions.
• Increased US presence in Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted environment, which aligns with an increase in renewable power use in these locations. This added significantly to renewable energy use, with 95% of power use being supplied by renewable energy in our AWS environment.
• Optimised and reduced utilisation across our Microsoft Azure environment. These changes resulted in a significant increase in the percentage of renewable energy used within our hosting environments, from 70% in 2022 to 81% in FY2023.

Social Achievements

• Annual engagement survey and biannual “pulse” survey to track progress on engagement and identify “focus areas” for practice improvement.
• Biannual performance evaluations and regular one-on-one coaching sessions with close to 100% participation.
• Competitive compensation packages including salary, benefits and incentives, and an employee share scheme available to all staff.

Governance Achievements

• Upgraded whistleblower policy to include an anonymous escalation mechanism.
• Established a world-class security team and implemented a NIST Cyber Security Framework.
• Established a Data Protection Officer (DPO) and a global Data Protection Committee.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Climate change impacts on communities and operations, including extreme weather, supply chain disruption, and compliance with emerging climate-related regulations.
• Not always possible to move data processing to renewable energy-powered data centres due to requirements around product features, security, safety and regulatory limitations such as data sovereignty.

Mitigation Strategies

• Monitoring the development of a climate-risk reporting framework for Australian businesses and will build capacity in this area as appropriate, likely in line with guidance from the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
• Ensuring our providers are secure, safe and responsible is fundamental to our company. Our procurement processes include a thorough risk assessment, managed by our compliance team. Strategically, we seek to move our data processing to renewable energy-powered data centres.

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement

• Thorough risk assessment managed by compliance team

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Extreme weather
• Supply chain disruption

Transition Risks

• Compliance with emerging climate-related regulations, policies and laws

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI Standards, SASB Standards

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Environment
• Social
• Governance

Environmental Achievements

• 68% decrease in AWS Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions related to Qoria workloads
• 8% decrease in GCP Scope 1 carbon emissions related to Qoria workloads
• 34% decrease in GCP Scope 2 carbon emissions related to Qoria workloads

Social Achievements

• 88% of staff feel they make a positive difference
• Near 100% participation in biannual performance evaluations and regular one-on-one coaching sessions
• Close to 100% participation in Employee Share Scheme (ESS)
• 87% of staff agree that Qoria offers a great work-life blend
• 24% of all hires are referrals

Governance Achievements

• Established a world-class security team to protect student data
• Products audited externally against ISO 27001 or SOC 2 security criteria
• Implemented a whistleblower policy
• Enhanced parental leave policies

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Extreme weather, supply chain disruption, compliance with emerging climate-related regulations
• Cybersecurity and data privacy risks

Mitigation Strategies

• Investing in world-leading cloud sustainability, migrating workloads to GCP
• Established a world-class security team, implemented security controls, and undergoes regular audits

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Extreme weather
• Supply chain disruption

Transition Risks

• Compliance with emerging climate-related regulations, policies and laws

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI, SASB

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• SDG 3
• SDG 4
• SDG 5
• SDG 8
• SDG 9
• SDG 10
• SDG 13

Qoria sees itself as contributing to these SDGs.

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Environment
• Social
• Governance

Environmental Achievements

• 68% decrease in AWS Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions related to Qoria workloads
• 8% decrease in GCP Scope 1 carbon emissions related to Qoria workloads
• 34% decrease in GCP Scope 2 carbon emissions related to Qoria workloads
• Significant decrease in overall CO2 emitted due to data hosting consolidation

Social Achievements

• 88% of staff feel they make a positive difference
• Near 100% participation in biannual performance evaluations and regular one-on-one coaching sessions
• Close to 100% participation in Employee Share Scheme (ESS)
• Formalized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy
• 87% of staff agree that Qoria offers a great work-life blend

Governance Achievements

• Established a world-class security team
• Products audited externally against ISO 27001 or SOC 2 security criteria
• Documented Incident Response Plan and annual table-top training exercises
• Annual security training for staff and contractors
• Global Data Protection Committee to assess risks and drive data protection initiatives

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Climate change impacts on communities and operations (extreme weather, supply chain disruption, regulatory compliance)
• Maintaining security and data privacy in a fast-paced digital world

Mitigation Strategies

• Strategic partnership with GCP, which has strong sustainability credentials and ambitious net-zero targets
• Ongoing migration of workloads to GCP to improve emissions visibility and leverage Google's emissions reduction targets
• World-class security team, external security partners, and investment in security controls
• NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001/SOC 2 audits, and regular security testing

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Extreme weather
• Supply chain disruption

Transition Risks

• Compliance with emerging climate-related regulations, policies and laws

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI Standards, SASB Standards

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• SDG 3
• SDG 4
• SDG 5
• SDG 8
• SDG 9
• SDG 10
• SDG 13

Qoria's initiatives contribute to these SDGs through its focus on online safety, student wellbeing, and responsible business practices.