Corporate Sustainability Report - Flipbook - Page 78
Sustainability Report
The targets used to manage climate-related
risks and opportunities and performance
against targets
Intensity ratios
Access has committed to setting nearterm science-based targets and is currently
preparing its submission for validation by the
SBTi. In the Interim, to express our annual
emissions in relation to a quanti昀椀able factor
associated with our operational activities, we
have used “annual gross pro昀椀t” in our intensity
ratio calculation as this is the most relevant
indication of our growth and provides for a
good comparative measure over time and it is
aligned with science-based targets. We have
also used “headcount” as a measure due to
our acquisitional nature.
Global
Intensity
Ratio
Our Scope 1, 2 and 3 revenue and headcount
intensity performance both re昀氀ect a collective
decrease of c.11% and decreases were
achieved in each Scope with the previous year.
These reductions are in spite of the
completion of ten acquisitions during FY25
across six divisions, which increased our
employee count by c.1,100. With these
acquisitions came the associated increases
in the number of o昀케ces, associated energy
consumption, as well as IT requirements such
as hardware and software, etc.
The Group has begun reducing emissions by
phasing in renewable energy for electricity
usage and will deploy vendor engagement
programmes across procurement with the
introduction of a sustainable procurement
policy and system to monitor progress
annually. Currently 11% of Scope 3 emissions
come from suppliers with science-based
targets.
FY23
FY24
78
FY25
Gross (tCO2e) per headcount
Scope 1
0.16
0.08
0.06
Scope 2
1.23
0.23
0.12
Scope 3
4.99
6.41
5.79
Gross (tCO2e) per £ million of revenue*
Scope 1
1.08
0.54
0.43
Scope 2
8.49
1.56
0.80
Scope 3
34.5
44.0
39.7
* the revenue intensity ratios have been restated
using market-based emissions for 昀椀nancial years
