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Planet Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts Commitment Gannett is committed to completing a comprehensive Greenhouse Gas emissions report that is expected to allow us to redefine our commitment and set targets around Gannett’s carbon footprint.
We expect to continue to represent the concerns of the local and national communities where we live and work, reporting on local issues including the environmental impact on our planet.
As temperatures rise, glaciers melt and coastlines flood, we are committed to vigorously and comprehensively covering the most important stories around climate change and its threat to our way of life on this planet.
Gannett’s U.S. sites published thousands of stories, projects, photos, newsletters and videos about climate change and the environment in 2022.
Climate Point curates content about the environment, sustainability and climate change from across the network for a national audience.
The series dedicated focus areas included wildfire, super storms, coastal flooding, air quality, energy and water usage.
Looking ahead to upon more focus areas with increased content in addition to previous focus areas of 2022 to include tornadoes, blizzards and severe drought.
How are we working toward our commitment? of reduced presses and other real estate consolidation led to a reduction in our global footprint of feet, as of December 31, 2022, which has in turn reduced our global energy usage.
The Company ensures all water discharged from our operations meets local regulatory requirements and commits to complying with all regulatory clean water standards.
In April Sustainability Forward, an employeeled sustainability-focused employee resource group (“ERG”).
The group welcomed speakers focused on climate change, sustainable farming and impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Cutting carbon and sustainably sourcing Throughout the number of presses in operation by consolidating print operations, replacing equipment with more energy-efficient equipment whenever possible, and relocating employees to more energyefficient office spaces.
Gannett has a unique ability to educate through journalism, pushing the agenda, and we believe our impact can be meaningful given our global reach across the U.S. and U.K. Gannett is continuing to work towards establishing an accurate and complete picture of our carbon footprint.
We are partnering with Green Impact to implement this software and enhance our ability to capture emissions data on an expanded number of assets and scopes.
Gannett recognizes that if we are to contribute towards achieving Net Zero, we need to establish our full carbon footprint baseline, implementing reduction strategies along our journey.
Our ongoing reductions Gannett and its U.K. subsidiary, Newsquest, are committed to environmental protection and sustainability within their own operations.
Their respective environmental policies can be found online here: U.S. policy, U.K. policy.
The survey ranks suppliers in the areas of quality, delivery, service and environmental sustainability.
Significantly reducing our water usage by switching to dry/chemical-free methods of photo and plate processing.
• Using violet/low VOC (volatile organic compound) chemicals in our processes, which are drawn off before any water is discarded.
• Capturing process chemicals and holding them for pickup/recycling before water disposal.
Our used plates and other scrap metals are collected and returned to suppliers for recycling to reduce waste, with more than recycling in 2022.
The team tracked climate change in real time, uncovering innovative solutions while noting the dire circumstances for millions in the U.S. Colorado River: Relentless drought and climate change have pushed the Colorado River to the brink of collapse.
Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the two largest storage reservoirs on the Colorado River, are collapsing, imperilling the water future of people in the West who rely on the river.
Sweet Deal: An investigation about a Saudi Arabian agricultural company whose sweetheart deal lets it tap into Phoenix’s backup water supply with no limits or fair compensation.
U.K. Climate Change Risk Assessment: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its climate change risk assessment in February U.K. may experience amplified impacts due to climate change.
The ERG will kick off their month-long celebration in April with topics focused on our National Parks, Environmental, Social and Governance investing, global sustainability and sustainability around our coastlines.
We recently partnered with two new vendors, Net Zero Cloud and Green Energy, in an effort to build out our ability to scope Gannett’s emissions use on an ongoing basis.
In Cross team will focus on declining water reserves in the Southwest, devastating floods on the coasts and efforts in the U.S. to change the climate future by spending billions from the Inflation Reduction Act on a sustainable energy infrastructure.
We are committed to continuing to include more articles to provide broader context to news in health, environment and science and include in-depth analyses that explore questions of how and why health and climate trends matter to our readers.
Many of the stories we highlight show direct correlation to helping reach one of the SDGs we have committed to supporting – Diversity and inclusion, climate change, and holding society accountable to build inclusion at all levels.
Exposing sea life death crisis: Massive wash-ups of crustaceans along the North East and North Yorkshire coastlines of the U.K. caused significant concern among fisherman who were dissatisfied with the original reasoning Environment Agency found as the cause, an algal bloom.
The Gannett Foundation The Gannett Foundation (the “Foundation”) supports the development of diversity in the journalism field, invests in issues important to our employees, and provides opportunities and a national platform for consumers to raise ideas and community solutions.
We align a portion of the Foundation’s grantmaking with Gannett’s values supporting our inclusion, diversity and equity initiatives as well as underserved communities.
Galashiels and Area Foodbank received a grant supporting their work providing food/energy items free or at discounted rates.
The ESOL classes provide women with the opportunity to learn English in a supportive environment, and their creche provision means that childcare is not a barrier to attending.
Gannett is committed to recycling, and we are highly cognizant of our consumption of natural resources, which aligns well to Goal production.
As a publisher of newspapers, Gannett closely monitors and manages its consumption of paper.
In paper consumption was approximately 149,256 metric tons, including consumption by our owned and operated print sites, third-party printing sites and Newsquest.
Total paper consumption in our U.S. newsprint purchases contained recycled content, with an average recycled content of 21%.
We continue to moderate newsprint consumption and expense by using lighter basis weight paper.
In width reductions were completed at multiple domestic print sites, helping lead to the overall consumption reduction.
We have enjoyed sharing how we continued our environmental, social and governance journey at Gannett during 2022.
With respect to the environment, we are steadily increasing the efficiency of our operations and aspire to be carbon neutral in our supply chain by 2050 or sooner.
We have announced our commitment to set a sciencebased net-zero target for our carbon emissions by the end of aligning our climate ambitions with the goals of the Paris Agreement and what climate science deems necessary to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Building on our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) transparency efforts, this year we have reported in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards.
We also remain focused on increasing the representation of women and other underrepresented groups in senior operating roles by evaluating and focusing on our talent processes, while fostering an inclusive environment to elevate and support a diverse network of TSMs.
Beyond adding the COLEGAS Employee Resource Group (ERG) for our Hispanic and Latin American TSMs and elevASIAN for our Pan-Asian TSMs to our existing ERG roster, we also announced the formation of ERGs for our military veterans, members of the armed forces, and their families, and individuals with disabilities and alli...
In addition, we rolled out a new initiative to educate each of our global directors and vice presidents on Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) concepts – education that will be expanded to all managers globally and to all U.S.-based TSMs by 2023.
• Mobilized our Employee Resource Groups through global virtual programming and networking for our members on relevant topics to stay connected and provide resources.
Building on our long history of leadership in this area, we remained deeply engaged throughout partners across the public and private sectors to strengthen the supply chain's resilience while ensuring one that is ethical, fair, and respects and protects both human rights and the environment.
This report summarizes of our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) approach and performance during growth in the coming years.
Reduced the environmental impact of our offices, distribution centers and supply chain, in order to mitigate our climate impact and contribute to the circular economy.
We continue to focus on improving the measurement, monitoring, and reporting of our sustainability performance and developing a deeper understanding of our impacts and our stakeholders’ expectations.
The values that underpin our current Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) efforts have been a part of the Company since our founding.
We embrace and celebrate the diversity of our TSMs, our customers, the patients they serve, our shareholders, our supplier partners, and the communities in which we operate.
We also have a long-standing commitment to health equity, including promoting pathways of opportunity to encourage greater diversity within the health care profession and supporting access to quality health care for underserved and underrepresented communities regardless of the ability to pay, social status, race, reli...
Progress on Our Goals and Commitments We have a strong foundation for managing our sustainability, from the environmental footprint of our operations and supply chain to our social impact as an employer and job creator, taxpayer, business partner, supplier, and community member.
Our teams continue to enhance our baseline data and planning initiatives that will support our environmental and societal efforts.
See pages resources, and to minimizing our impact on the environment within our own operations and in our supply chain.
Last year, we announced other climate and waste reduction goals.
We also broadened the geographic and operational scope of our environmental reporting and included further global facilities.
This year, we expect to expand our metrics to include the remaining distribution centers, fleet, and key facilities around the world and broaden the scope of our reporting on supply chain emissions.
As our beyond goal, utilizing and enhancing our talent planning and recruitment processes to create expanded targeted initiatives to achieve concrete results, we are committed to increasing the diversity of underrepresented groups in senior leadership roles.
We work to reduce our environmental impact and promote responsible business practices in our own operations and supply chain, in collaboration with our suppliers, partners, and customers.
together with partners and suppliers We have put in place near-term targets in our North American distribution network by equipment, increase our recycling, and decrease our landfill waste.
We are building climate roadmaps for distribution and transportation and continue to integrate this thinking into our supply chain, from our energy management to our transportation decisions.
As a global organization with a large and complex supply chain, we are mindful of our impact on the environment, as well as the effects of the environment on our business, both now and in the future.
Importantly, we embrace a responsibility to reduce our carbon emissions while recognizing that climate change may affect our operations and supply chain through physical, technological, regulatory, and market impacts.
Other environmental dependencies include access to energy, raw materials, infrastructure, and skills, all of which can be impacted by climate change in the areas we operate in or source from.
In recognition that our global environmental footprint and deep relationships with suppliers and business partners obligate us to be a driving force for sustainability in the health care supply chain, we have taken several necessary steps, including in addition, we are committing to setting a sciencebased net-zero targ...
The Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a collaboration between CDP, the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), World Resources Institute (WRI), and the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF).
We continuously strengthen our approach to measuring, monitoring, and reporting on our carbon emissions and other environmental impacts.
For example, we now report on the environmental impact from nearly all of our global distribution centers in North America, Europe, Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, and China.
We have also expanded the reporting of our transportrelated Greenhouse Gas Protocol (“GHG”) emissions with relevant transport partners globally.
We continue to report on further supply chain-related emission streams, such as from business travel in our U.S. operations2.
We use the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol and the Corporate Value Chain (Scope by WBCSD/WRI, as our corporate GHG accounting standards.
Since fleet of service technicians in the U.S., which form part of our Scope 1 emissions.
Our total fleet emissions were North America, Australia, and New Zealand during 2021, with the emissions-per-vehicle reduction (19.8% in the U.S. since the 2008 baseline) mainly due to vehicle and vehicle power train selections (e.g., moving from V8 to V6 engines and the use of telematics).
We do believe that our emissions will level out to pre-pandemic levels as our efforts to utilize more fuel efficient vehicles and improved dispatch routing will offset the double digit percentage increase in the number of service technicians.
Over the next five years, we plan to invest in technology that will create more efficient routing of technicians and a reduction in mileage and greenhouse gas emissions.
We aspire to be carbon neutral in our supply chain emissions by the year 2050, if not sooner.
Electricity purchased from local energy suppliers is the source of our Scope 2 emissions.
We implement efficiency measures at our distribution centers to save electricity and reduce our Scope 2 emissions.
Automatic lighting in most of our U.S. distribution centers and a significant part of our European distribution centers enables us to reduce electricity consumption.
Our U.S. distribution centers use energy-efficient lighting, including LED fixtures and motion sensors, HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning) controls, energy-efficient heating/cooling units, high-efficiency battery chargers, and conveyor motors.
These emissions in Australia and New Zealand totaled metric tons; in Europe, they amounted to 6,939 metric tons and a further 3 metric tons, in other geographies.
Our increase in reported Scope emissions from 48,846 metric tons in 2020 to 80,090 metric tons in 2021 is primarily due to our efforts to expand data capture, namely our U.S. businesses outside our core 5 DC network and our European distribution network.
We have also seen an increase in reported emissions from our transportation partners as they transition to more enhanced reporting tools and use the Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC) methodology.
Our business travel-related emissions during the year in our U.S. operations were 1,307 metric tons.
in Canada due to water consumption data not being available.
Responsible use of water at our distribution centers We have limited direct product manufacturing; therefore, our operations are not water-intensive.
We use water mainly at our distribution centers and offices for drinking, sanitation, and cooling purposes, primarily from utility sources.
Reducing, recycling, and reusing waste We work to avoid landfilled waste to retain precious raw materials in the economic cycle and prevent soil and water contamination, air pollution, and degradation of nature in and around landfills.
Helping our customers go green Scaling the environmental impact downstream in our supply chain by encouraging our customers to go green in their health care practices and to adopt a shared commitment to sustainability is another way we are driving impact.
We achieve this through a number of efforts, such as our Global Reflections® Program and the Green Leader Initiative of the American Association of Dental Office Management (AADOM).
We also assist practice owners in designing spaces that meet globally recognized standards for environmental sustainability through our Integrated Design Studio.
See leader videos here on how dental office managers and their teams are helping to reduce the impact of "business as usual" dentistry by using environmentally friendly products and implementing specific changes to reduce waste.
This program provides customers a range of products to help reduce their own carbon footprint, including items made with biodegradable, recycled, chlorine-free, and natural materials.
Our total generated waste in network in the regions mentioned above was 14,924 metric tons, of which only 50 metric tons were categorized as hazardous waste to landfill.