Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Environmental Sustainability

Environmental Achievements

• Lowered volatile organic chemical (VOC) content in cleaning solvents
• Improved the control efficiency of oxidizers
• Redesigned processes for more digital printing (reducing VOCs and pre-press wastewaters)
• Reduced packaging size or thickness
• Used compostable or reusable packaging

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Transportation impacts from moving printed materials
• Energy and water usage in buildings

Mitigation Strategies

• Using cleaner-burning, more aerodynamic trucks
• Instituting a “no idling” policy
• Using auxiliary power units in long-haul trucks
• Consolidating loads for fewer trips
• Applying similar principles to company vehicles and carpooling
• Energy efficiency measures in buildings
• Water conservation in buildings

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: Sustainable Green Printing Partnership, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), U.S. EPA’s SmartWay Partnership, Green Tier program (Wisconsin), Environmental Stewardship Program (ESP) (Indiana), Driving a Cleaner Illinois (Illinois)

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Sustainability
• Decarbonization
• Environmental Justice
• Climate Risk
• Renewable Energy

Environmental Achievements

• Reduced operations and maintenance costs, decreased greenhouse gas emissions, lower environmental risks for clients and their local communities, and improved the quality of life for the people that interact with the facilities and live around them while lowering the health and safety risks associated with our industry.
• Successfully mapped 16,254 square kilometers (4,739 square nautical miles) of unknown seafloor around the Aleutian Islands over 52 days.
• Developed and used a virtual EIS/EIA system to enable more efficient and effective management, visualization and reporting of environmental impact data and information.

Social Achievements

• Improved quality of life for the people who work at the plant, and to create the most sustainable facility possible.
• Dedicated 3-5% of invested capital to building schools, sponsoring local sports teams, and offering scholarships to students.
• Donated early fire detection sensors to a national park that is prone to forest fires in the summer months

Governance Achievements

• Making energy smarter through advanced tools and transition technology.
• Developed a carbon calculator and decarbonization analytics tool that enables clients to quickly evaluate and visualize in dashboards the different decarbonization scenarios against baseline and assess the marginal abatement cost curve for the different scenarios.
• Developed a bot that quickly reads and processes hundreds of documents and enables users to ask the bot any question. The bot quickly answers the questions based on the information contained in the documents.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Lack of funding to make the leap from lab to field.
• Approvals of new technologies by States and approving authorities takes longer than schedule permits.
• Cost factors for piloting new technologies.
• Customers are going to be slow to change.
• Development costs and resistance from regulating authorities to new technology.
• Firms won’t want to share “their” data, which will be necessary for AI systems to learn our industry.
• Data security and privacy as well as integration and compatibility of software.
• Skill development and training.
• Resistance to change of employees.

Mitigation Strategies

• Investment in technology brings significant returns through efficiency gains and improved outcomes.
• Centralizing data management and implementing new technology across a portfolio of projects, clients or markets.
• Developing and applying a system that uses natural language processing (NLP) and AI to deconstruct over 10,000 permits into permit requirements in less two weeks, which would have taken about 6 months to do manually.
• Developing tailored solutions and software platforms designed to help clients successfully collect, validate, organize, manage, visualize and use critical data and information to enable smarter decision making.
• Investing heavily in upskilling its employees to support the more advanced technologies as Cloud, AI/ML, Data Science etc.
• Investing in cyber technologies to address the cyber security challenges that arise from the use of digital technologies and generative AI.

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Not disclosed

Responsible Procurement

• Not disclosed

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Extreme weather
• Flooding
• Wildfires

Transition Risks

• Regulatory changes
• Market shifts

Opportunities

• Renewable energy development
• Climate resilience solutions

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI, SASB, TCFD, UN SDGs

Certifications: Null

Third-party Assurance: Not disclosed

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy)
• Goal 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure)
• Goal 13 (Climate Action)
• Goal 15 (Life on Land)

Initiatives contribute to these goals through renewable energy development, sustainable infrastructure, climate risk mitigation, and biodiversity conservation.

Sustainable Products & Innovation

• Remote monitoring and control (RMC) technology
• Digital twin technology
• AI-powered data analysis tools

Awards & Recognition

• Environmental Business Journal Technology Merit Award
• Inductive Automation Firebrand Award