CDP Climate Change 2022 Reporting Guidance

(C4.2a) Provide details of your target(s) to increase low-carbon energy consumption or production.

Question dependencies

This question only appears if you select “Target(s) to increase low-carbon energy consumption or production” in response to C4.2.

Change from last year

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Rationale

Targets related to increasing low-carbon energy consumption or production can be an important element of organizations’ strategy to reduce their emissions.

Connection to other frameworks

TCFD

Metrics & Targets recommended disclosure a) Disclose the metrics used by the organization to assess climate-related risks and opportunities in line with its strategy and risk management process.

Metrics & Targets recommended disclosure c) Describe the targets used by the organization to manage climate related risks and opportunities and performance against targets.

SDG

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy

Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

Goal 13: Climate action

RE100

2018 RobecoSAM Corporate Sustainability Assessment (DJSI)

Climate-related targets

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General

• If you are a member of the RE100 initative, you can use this question to self-report your progress towards achieving your RE100 target. Note that RE100 will use the data you report in module C8 (Energy) to come to its own assessment of your progress towards your RE100 target. If you have interim targets, they can be reported in this question in additional rows.

Target reference number (column 1)

• Select a unique target reference from the drop-down menu provided to track progress against this target in subsequent reporting years.

Year target was set (column 2)

• Enter the year in which your company set the target.
• This must be either before or during the reporting year, but cannot be after the reporting year. It also cannot be after the target year.
• For year-on-year rolling targets, enter the year that you first set the target. This can be before the base year.
• If the target was set based on financial years, enter the year that applies to the end of your financial year and specify this in the “Please explain target coverage and identify any exclusions” column.

Target coverage (column 3)

• If the target applies to the whole company, select “Company-wide”. Members of the RE100 initiative should select this option to report their RE100 target. Note that “company” refers collectively to all the companies, businesses, organizations, other entities or groups that fall within your definition of the reporting boundary.
• If the target does not apply to the whole company, select the option that best describes the coverage of the target, and provide further details in the “Please explain target coverage and identify any exclusions” column. E.g. if your target applies only to your European operations, select “Country/region” in this column and specify the country/region in the column “Please explain target coverage and identify any exclusions”

Target type: energy carrier (column 4)

• Select the energy carrier to which your target relates.
• If your target relates to electricity, heat, steam and cooling combined, select “All energy carriers”
• If your target relates to multiple, but not all, energy carriers, select “Other, please specify” and indicate the energy carriers your target relates to.
• Members of the RE100 initiative should select “Electricity” to report their RE100 target.

Target type: activity (column 5)

• Members of the RE100 initiative should select “Consumption” in this column to report their RE100 target.

Target type: energy source (column 6)

• Select whether the target relates to increasing consumption or production of low-carbon energy, or of renewable energy specifically. Definitions are provided in the explanation of terms below.
• Members of the RE100 initative should select “Renewable energy source(s) only” to report their RE100 target.

Base year (column 7)

• The base year is the year against which you are comparing your target.
• For RE100 targets, the base year is usually the year that your organization committed to the RE100 initiative. This may be the same as the “Year target was set” (column 2).
• If you have a year-on-year rolling target, the base year will be the previous reporting year.
• If you have a target based on financial years, enter the year that applies to the end of your financial year and specify this in the “Please explain target coverage and identify any exclusions” column.
• If you have a target based on an average over a period of time (e.g. 5-year average), enter the year that applies to the end of the average period and specify this in the “Please explain target coverage and identify any exclusions” column.
• You cannot have a base year that is in the future.

MWh of low-carbon or renewable energy in base year (column 8)

• Enter the absolute base year value for the target in megawatt hours (MWh). Note that this figure should be consistent with your selections in columns 3-6.
• E.g. if your target is to achieve 100% renewable electricity consumption in your European operations by a target year of 2025 compared with a base year of 2015, enter in MWh the absolute renewable electricity consumed by your European operations in 2015 in this column.
• E.g. for RE100 members, if your company-wide RE100 target is to achieve 100% renewable electricity consumption for your entire operations by a target year of 2025, enter in MWh the absolute renewable electricity consumed across all of your operations in the base year (i.e. the year that your organization committed to the RE100 intiaitve as specified in column 7).
• If your target relates to multiple energy carriers, enter the total MWh in the base year for all energy carriers.

% share of low-carbon or renewable energy in base year (column 9)

• Enter percentage share of low-carbon or renewable energy in the base year covered by the target.
• This is the low-carbon or renewable energy in the base year covered by the target (reported in column 8) as a percentage of the total energy in the base year covered by the target.
• E.g. if your target is to achieve 100% renewable electricity consumption in your European operations by a target year of 2025 compared with a base year of 2015, and in 2015 the renewable proportion of the total electricity consumed by your European operations was 40%, you should enter 40 in this column.
• E.g. for RE100 members, if your company-wide RE100 target is to achieve 100% renewable electricity consumption for your entire operations by a target year of 2025, and the renewable proportion of the total electricity consumed across all of your operations in the base year (i.e. the year that your organization committed to the RE100 intiaitve as specified in column 7) was 60%, you should enter 60 in this column.

Target year (column 10)

• If you have a year-on-year rolling target, the target year will be the reporting year.
• If you have a target based on financial years, enter the year that applies to the end of your financial year and specify in the “Please explain target coverage and identify any exclusions” column.
• If you have a target based on an average over a period of time (e.g. 5-year average), enter the year that applies to the end of the average period and specify this in the “Please explain target coverage and identify any exclusions” column.

% share of low-carbon or renewable energy in target year (column 11)

• Enter the percentage share of low-carbon or renewable energy covered by the target to be achieved in the target year. This indicates your target ambition.
• E.g. if your target is to achieve 100% renewable electricity consumption in your European operations by a target year of 2025 compared with a base year of 2015, enter 100 in this column.
• Members of the RE100 initiative should enter “100” in this column to report their RE100 target.

% share of low-carbon or renewable energy in reporting year (column 12)

• Enter the percentage share of low-carbon or renewable energy covered by the target in the reporting year.
• E.g. if your target is to achieve 100% renewable electricity consumption in your European operations by a target year of 2025 compared with a base year of 2015, and in the reporting year the renewable proportion of the total electricity consumed by your European operations was 80%, you should enter 80 in this column.
• If you are a member of the RE100 initiative, this column allows you to self-report progress against achieving your RE100 target. Note that RE100 will use the data you report in module C8 (Energy) to come to its own assessment of your progress towards your RE100 target.
• E.g. for RE100 members, if your company-wide RE100 target is to achieve 100% renewable electricity consumption for your entire operations by a target year of 2025, and in the reporting year the renewable proportion of the total electricity consumed across all of your operations was 90%, you should enter 90 in this column.

% of target achieved relative to base year [auto-calculated] (column 13)

• This column will be auto-calculated in the ORS.
• The target’s percentage completion compared with the base year will be calculated from the “% share of low-carbon or renewable energy in base year” (column 9), ‘% share of low-carbon or renewable energy in target year” (column 11), and “% share of low-carbon or renewable energy in reporting year” (column 12) columns. Ensure you have entered data into these columns.



• E.g. if your target is to achieve 100% renewable electricty consumption in your European operations by 2025 compared with 40% renewable electricity consumption in a base year of 2015, and in the reporting year you achieved 80% renewable electricty consumption, this column will display 66 as you have achieved 66% of your targeted increase in renewable electricty compared with the base year.
• Negative values indicate a decrease in low carbon or renewable energy consumption or production compared to the base year.
• Values greater than 100 incidate that you have exceeded your target.
• If you are a member of the RE100 initiative, note that this column is not used to assess progress against your RE100 target. The RE100 target is considered to be achieved when the % share of renewable electricity in the reporting year is equal to 100%.

Target status in reporting year (column 14)

• New - Select this option for targets that have been set in the reporting year and are still in progress.
• Underway - Select this option for targets that were set before the reporting year, with a target year in the future, that have not been achieved and continue to be pursued.
• Achieved - Select this option for targets that have been achieved or exceeded in the reporting year.
• Expired - Select this option for targets with a target year of the reporting year, that have not been achieved and have therefore expired in the reporting year.
• Revised - Select this option for targets that were set before the reporting year but a revision has been made to any of the elements in columns 2 to 12 in the reporting year, for example due to a recalculation or a change to the target year.
• Replaced - Select this option for previously reported targets that have been replaced with another target in the reporting year, for example where a facility target has been incorporated into a company-wide target.
• Retired - Select this option for targets with a target year in the future, that have not been achieved, but will no longer be pursued. Provide more information as to why this target was retired in the “Please explain target coverage and identify any exclusions” column.

Is this target part of an emissions target? (column 15)

• If the target is part of an emissions reduction target reported in C4.1a or C4.1b, enter the emissions reduction target reference number here.

Is this target part of an overarching initiative? (column 16)

• If the target is part of an overarching initaive, select the initative or select “Other, please specify” to outline the initiative.
• If you are a member of the RE100 initiative, ensure to select “RE100” here.

Please explain target coverage and identify any exclusions (column 17)

• If the target does not apply to the whole organization (i.e. the target coverage is not “Company-wide”), provide further details of your target coverage in this column. E.g. if you have selected “Country/region” in column 3, please specify which countries/regions your target covers.
• If you reported a renewable energy consumption or production target in C4.2 last year and are reporting progress against the same target this year, indicate this in this column.
• You can use this column to identify where you have a financial year or average year based target.
• If your target was originally in a different format, you may wish to give the original target before it was converted into the format required for the purposes of this table.
• If your target is part of a wider carbon neutrality goal, a regulatory requirement, or a longer term target, you can also explain this here.

Plan for achieving target, and progress made to the end of the reporting year (column 18)

• This column is only presented if “Underway”, Revised”, or “New” is selected in column 14 “Target status in reporting year”.
• Describe how you plan to achieve the target, and list the actions which have contributed most to any progress towards the target.
• If you are not on track to achieve the target, explain how you plan to get back on track.

List the actions which contributed most to achieving this target (column 19)

• This column is only presented if “Achieved” is selected in column 14 “Target status in reporting year”.

Explanation of terms

• Low-carbon energy: In line with the IEA definition, low-carbon technologies are technologies that produce low – or zero – greenhouse-gas emissions while operating. In the power sector this includes fossil-fuel plants fitted with carbon capture and storage, nuclear plants and renewable-based generation technologies. Natural gas, combined cycle gas turbine and fossil fuel-based combined heat and power (cogeneration), despite being less carbon intensive than other means of electricity production like coal, are not considered low-carbon.
• Renewable energy: CDP follows the definition of renewable energy given in the GHG Protocol, i.e. “energy taken from sources that are inexhaustible, e.g. wind, water, solar, geothermal energy and biofuels”.

Example response

The table below shows three low-carbon energy target examples:

1. Low 1: a company-wide RE100 target to increase the proportion of electricity consumed from renewable sources from 30% to 100% within 10 years from 2015. This target is part of the company’s absolute Scope 2 emissions reduction target reported in C4.1a.
2. Low 2: a company-wide target to increase the proportion of heat consumed from low-carbon sources by 2% per year. This is a year-on-year rolling target that was set in 2010, therefore the target year is the current reporting year (2020), and the base year is the previous reporting year (2019).
3. Low 3: a company-wide target set in 2015 to double renewable electricity production from 20% to 40% by 2025.The target status is revised in the reporting year due to bringing forward the target year from 2030 to 2025.