CAB Payments Holdings plc
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2023, 2024-01 to 2024-06)
Reporting Period: 2023
Environmental Metrics
Total Carbon Emissions:1721.5 tCO2e/year (2023)
Scope 1 Emissions:42.9 tCO2e/year (2023)
Scope 2 Emissions:62.3 tCO2e/year (2023)
Scope 3 Emissions:1616.3 tCO2e/year (2023)
ESG Focus Areas
- Governance
- Our People
- Community
- Environment
- Clients
Environmental Achievements
- Achieved carbon neutrality by offsetting all emissions year on year.
- Aimed for a 5% annual reduction in emissions per £million turnover since 2019.
Social Achievements
- Achieved an 85% employee engagement score.
- Launched a mentoring program with 16 partnerships in 2023.
- Achieved 50% ethically diverse employment and 40% female employment.
- 60% female Board representation.
Governance Achievements
- Established an ESG Board Sub-Committee and an ESG Steering Committee.
- Updated Articles of Association to include stakeholder-centric decision-making.
- Achieved B Corp Certification with 84.2 points.
Climate Goals & Targets
Long-term Goals:
- Achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
Medium-term Goals:
- By 2030, ensure employees represent the diversity of the geographies we work across.
- By 2030, broaden the impact of our work ensuring more people have equal rights to financial services.
- By 2030, address our impact on the planet across our value chain.
- By 2030, embed a clear governance structure.
Short-term Goals:
- Develop net-zero plan and align with SBTi by 2025.
- Have over 700 cumulative hours volunteered per year by employees by 2025.
- Have over 30% female representation at senior management by 2025.
- Have over 45% female representation across CAB Payments by 2025.
Environmental Challenges
- Reducing carbon emissions in line with targets while experiencing fluctuations due to the pandemic.
- Managing change, clarity and connection to the direction and vision of CAB (based on employee feedback).
Mitigation Strategies
- Developing a net-zero plan and aligning with the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
- Action planning sessions across the organization to address employee feedback on managing change, clarity and connection to the direction and vision of CAB.
Supply Chain Management
Responsible Procurement
- Developed an ESG scoring and rating system for our supply chain, embedded in our supplier code of conduct.
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Reporting Standards
Frameworks Used: B Corp
Certifications: B Corp
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- 1, 5, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16
CAB Payments is fully committed to contributing to the SDGs, we have aligned our ESG strategy to five goals which support achieving seven of the SDGs (1, 5, 8, 10, 12, 13 and 16).
Awards & Recognition
- EcoVadis Gold Award (2023)
Reporting Period: 2024-01 to 2024-06
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Sustainability
- Environmental impact
- Climate change
- Responsible business practices
Social Achievements
- Achieved Certified B Corporation status
Climate Goals & Targets
Medium-term Goals:
- Deliver a more diversified, sustainably growing business with strong operating leverage.
Short-term Goals:
- Double the size of the salesforce over the next three years.
Environmental Challenges
- Lower flows from International Developmental Organisations due to changes in the political landscape and aid budget cuts.
- Compression in revenues due to central bank interventions in some core markets (Central African Franc (XAF) and West African Franc (XOF)).
- Market contraction due to a strong dollar and global political volatility.
Mitigation Strategies
- Continued investment in long-term growth plans.
- Diversification of income sources.
- Expansion of client base and payment partners.
- Broadening the range of currencies offered.
- Improved client onboarding process.
- Strategic investments in expanding EU and US offices, and new London headquarters.
- Efficiency gains through restructuring the executive team.
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Reporting Standards
Frameworks Used: B Corporation
Certifications: B Corporation™
Third-party Assurance: Forvis Mazars LLP
Awards & Recognition
- Gold Sustainability Rating by EcoVadis in 2022 & 2023