Climate Change Data

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Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2022, 2023)

Reporting Period: 2022

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • People
  • Community
  • Environment
  • Customers
  • Governance

Environmental Achievements

  • Joined the Net Zero by 2030 pledge and committed to an emission tracker
  • Planted 57,795 trees and helped fund 38 projects through partnership with Ecology
  • Improved energy efficiency of studio spaces by working with landlords
  • New York studio located in a certified Green Building
  • European studios powered by renewable energy (London) and low-impact energy (Malmö)

Social Achievements

  • Became an employee-owned company
  • Shared 1/3 of profit with partners
  • Introduced a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) escalation policy
  • Invested in mental health support and wellbeing initiatives
  • Provided resilience training
  • Improved promotion and monitoring of global training initiatives
  • Moved pension funds (UK) to a socially and environmentally responsible provider
  • Launched groundbreaking fitness and health apps for the Body Coach and Peloton
  • Implemented a systematic quarterly client satisfaction survey
  • Developed a new process to better measure the business impact of client work
  • Organized various internal initiatives to foster inclusivity
  • Provided space to eight community projects (London) through Open Studio initiative
  • Hosted a panel dedicated to Black women in tech and design
  • Partnered with Pink Programming for a coding workshop (Malmö)
  • Partnered with ADPList BeMore Festival for portfolio reviews (New York)
  • Set requirements regarding labor practices of outsourced staffing service providers
  • Requested ESG rating documentation or sustainability reports from vendors
  • Gave all partners one volunteering day per year
  • Encouraged and matched donations to various charities

Governance Achievements

  • Added three elected employee representatives to the board
  • Rolled out a comprehensive OKR/metrics framework to measure impact
  • Strengthened financial control and anti-corruption practices
  • Improved IT and data security

Climate Goals & Targets

Short-term Goals:
  • Provide more professional experiences for underrepresented groups
  • Increase partner volunteering
  • Make B Corp content standard in onboarding and offer tools for better incorporation into decision-making

Environmental Challenges

  • No significant changes in team composition or inclusion survey results in 2022
Mitigation Strategies
  • Calibrating DEI activities in 2023 to deliver tangible impact
  • Continuing to look for opportunities to reduce environmental impact and improve governance in 2023

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement
  • Setting requirements regarding labor practices of outsourced staffing service providers
  • Requesting ESG rating documentation or sustainability reports from vendors

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: B Corp

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • Groundbreaking fitness and health apps

Reporting Period: 2023

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Governance
  • Workers
  • Community
  • Environment
  • Customers

Environmental Achievements

  • Calculated carbon footprint baseline
  • Began supplier assessments
  • Made website greener
  • Offset carbon footprint through partnerships (e.g., Ecologi, supporting Gold Standard projects)
  • Reduced website carbon footprint by making it static

Social Achievements

  • Supported four Flipside cohorts, hiring a Junior Designer from one cohort
  • Partnered with schools and universities in Malmö to provide internships
  • Hosted portfolio reviews to improve industry accessibility (London, New York, Malmö)
  • Partnered with Where Are the Black Designers? (WATBD?) for events and initiatives
  • Volunteered in local communities (London, Malmö, New York)

Governance Achievements

  • Integrated B Corp principles into onboarding and studio-wide sessions
  • Increased transparency by sharing B Corp assessment responses
  • Initiated ISO 27001 certification process

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Net Zero operations by 2030
Medium-term Goals:
  • Conduct a social and environmental screening of our suppliers
  • Expand employee engagement in our studio Volunteering Day
Short-term Goals:
  • Become ISO27001 certified
  • Formalize and codify internship policies and hiring practices

Environmental Challenges

  • Reducing carbon footprint from internet servers
  • Ensuring inclusivity in a hybrid work environment
Mitigation Strategies
  • Reduced website carbon footprint by making it static
  • Plans to formalize internship policies and hiring practices

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement
  • Sustainability credentials rating of merchants

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GHG, CDP

Certifications: B Corp

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • 8

Contribution to 8 SDGs through Gold Standard project support