What is CI&T's climate strategy regarding its carbon footprint?

CI&T's journey toward decarbonisation is in its early stages, and we're still designing our goals and commitments. As we work on our greenhouse gas emissions mitigation plan, we are committed to offsetting all measured emissions.

In addition, we are moving forward to define our goals in line with the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), which requires companies committed to the climate cause to reduce emissions beyond the activities within their scope of responsibility, including their entire value chain, following the principles of climate science.

We based the first stage of our strategy on avoiding issuing GHG emissions wherever possible. The second step aims to reduce the emissions of GHG through changes in our processes and operations. The third and final stage will work toward offsetting emissions that cannot be avoided or reduced. The image below demonstrates the step-by-step journey towards decarbonising our operations.

Define scopes and sources to calculate carbon footprint.

Set, validate, announce, and report on public targets.

We are at this stage!

Decarbonisation strategy:

- Optimize resources for efficiency and carbon-intensity;
- Switch for low-carbon energy sources;
- Balance emissions that cannot otherwise be reduced;
- Engage value chain.

Measure, monitor, adjust and optimize progress toward target.

Communicate progress continuously to disclosure frameworks.

When a company commits to being Net Zero, it will work to reduce all possible emissions, whether direct emissions arising from the company's operations or indirect emissions related to the carbon footprint of its value chain. The company will then offset all its remaining emissions – those that cannot be mitigated – by investing in carbon offset projects. In other words, the company aims to balance its greenhouse gas emissions by removing these gases from the atmosphere so that the result is net zero.

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