Environment & Energy
Workplace Enhancements
Facility upgrades continue to increase energy efficiency.
More-efficient LED lighting
Daylight & Occupancy Office Sensors
High efficiency HVAC systems
Biodiverse buildings & greenspaces
As of year-end 2021, the Equifax real estate portfolio included six LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified buildings in North and South America, three BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) Excellent rated buildings in the United Kingdom, one NABERS (National Australian Built Environment Rating System) and three Green Star rated buildings in Australia. Although these Equifax buildings do not represent the majority of our worksites, our global real estate team includes energy efficiency as a factor in determining new office locations.
As we progress through our cloud transformation journey, we are also taking steps to more efficiently manage our remaining onsite data centers, such as optimizing our HVAC systems and implementing cold aisle containment processes.
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A number of factors contributed to the reduction in our GHG emissions between 2019 and 2020. As with most companies, we saw a reduction in office usage and business travel related to the COVID pandemic that resulted in lower GHG emissions. In 2020, we strategically consolidated a number of locations to promote productivity and increase efficiency of space utilization. These space utilization measures decreased our overall energy usage and the corresponding GHG emissions. Our continued cloud transformation also positively impacted our GHG emissions as we continue to decommission data centers and legacy servers and applications.
In 2021, our GHG emissions were positively impacted by a combination of data center decommissions, office consolidation, and an improvement in overall energy efficiency of the Atlanta power market resulting in a reduced emissions factor. Our 2021 GHG emissions were negatively impacted by the availability of more complete information regarding our data centers, an increased footprint from eight acquisitions completed during the year, and an irregular increase in the use of refrigerant required for the year (scope 1). Excluding the impact of acquisitions in 2021, our aggregate scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions would have decreased approximately 5.3% compared to 2020.
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Last updated: October 27, 2022
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