Environmental Policy

Introduction And Background

This Environmental policy provides a framework for the management of greenhouse gas (GHG) and waste reduction within Wimmer Solutions Corporation.

Wimmer Solutions’ motto is Care Creates Community. This extends to the environment and climate control. Wimmer Solutions is committed to doing our part to ensure a clean energy economy.

Wimmer Solutions is a smaller Professional Services agency, leases all its facilities, and only leases one corporate vehicle, so we face challenges in reporting and reducing our Greenhouse Gas emissions. Providing accurate and effective reports and reducing our emissions requires us to engage readily with our partners. Wimmer Solutions is focused on building and maintaining relationships with our partners to continue to improve our data quality and reduce our emissions. We worked with our building management to provide our electricity use, but that is the only real inventory we can provide along with our corporate leased vehicle. 

We set initiatives to reduce our waste from office activities and recycle our electronics at the end of their life. Wimmer Solutions does not consume raw materials, chemicals, or generate hazardous waste in our business practices. We engage our stakeholders to identify what topics are relevant to our company.

Goal

Wimmer Solutions developed a fiscal year of January 1st -December 31st. We are using the period of January 1st, 2017 – December 31st, 2017 as our baseline. This base line includes 18 metric tons C02-equivalent (MTCO2e) of scope 1 and scope 2 emissions. Wimmer solutions started focusing on scope 3 emissions in reporting period of January 1st, 2019 – December 31st, 2019 as our baseline. This base line includes 77 metric tonsC02-equivalent (MTCO2e) of scope 3 emissions.

We used a qualitative approach to the Two Degree Scenario (2DS) to deem that a 2-degree Celsius has the potential to reduce air quality and chronic physical risk of the rise sea levels globally. Exceeding this threshold can greatly impact our office space as well as our partners quality of life. The IEA ETP 2DS sets the target of cutting CO2 emissions by almost 60% by 2050. We want to do our part and set a 60% reduction in our emissions from our 2017 base line. We previously set a 20% reduction by 2027 which we are on track to exceed, so much that we have reset our 20% Science-Based Target to 2025. A 60% reduction is something our organization is strategizing to achieve by 2050. We set a Science-Based Target of reducing our absolute Scope 1+2 emissions by 20% by 2025 (formerly 2027), 40% by 2035 and 60% by 2050. Continuing to meet a SBT of 100% reduction by 2060.

Wimmer Solutions had established a 20% reduction of agency wide scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions in absolute terms by July 1, 2027, in relation to our 2017 Baseline.  

Wimmer Solutions will establish and annually report a comprehensive inventory of absolute target of greenhouse gas emissions, including scope 1 and scope 2 emissions. Scope 3 was added in 2019 and will act as our baseline for scope 3.

We plan on achieving the following objectives for 2021:  

Reduce our carbon emission by scope 1 and 2 emissions by 1.5% and our scope 3 emissions by 5% in 2021 from our 2020 emissions.

• Conserve energy with smart usage and LED components.
• Replace all appliances with energy efficient models (Energy Star) once current appliances reach the end of their life.
• Provide carbon reducing options of transportation (bus pass, bike to work accommodations, limit travel, and encourage virtual meetings).
• Company leased vehicles must be electric.

Use 100% renewable energy.

• Purchase all electricity that is generated from a renewable source. 

Waste reduction:

• Recycle all material used by our organization, through recycling bins and training.
• Donate all electronics/computers upon retirement from internal use. Anything nonfunctioning will be recycled.
• Use reusable office supplies.
• Introduction of composting for compostable, providing biodegradable cups, plates, and utensils.
• Cohost recycling events for friends and family to properly recycle any items they may have in their households.

Organization Information

Wimmer Solutions Corporation

1341 N Northlake Way STE 300

Seattle, WA 98103

Contacts

• Joseph Neilson – Operations Manager

Environmental Team

Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)

Oversees the sustainability committee. Aids in creation of initiatives, collection on data, and reporting.

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Aids in providing data around fiscal benefits around climate change initiatives. Responsible for identifying vendors in the up and down chain.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Oversees and provides the final decision on the sustainability committee, initiatives, and incentives in regards to climate change.

Operations Manager (OM)

Collects data, builds reports, and works with partners

Cadence Of Responsibilities, Meetings, And Initiative Review

The sustainability committee that comprises of the CSO and OM meets quarterly. The sustainability committee is responsible for assessing and managing climate-related risks and opportunities, reporting, and working with our stakeholders. The CSO then meets with the Executive team (CFO and CEO) to report new initiatives and to assess and manage climate-related risks and opportunities. The leadership team then approves the initiatives. This happens quarterly. The CSO oversees the policy.

Scope

This pertains to all staff in the United States at all operational locations in the United States. We encourage staff to take these practices home in their day-to-day activities.

Timeline

An annual review is presented by the OM and CSO to the Executive Team as a formal report. The next review is May 31st, 2022. If any activities change significantly, the policy will be updated outside of the annual review.

Documentation

This policy will act as the formal document.

Endorsement

This policy was endorsed by the Executive Team on August 31,2020.

Annual Reports

Reporting year: 2020 (January1, 2020 – December 31, 2020)

Gross global Scope 1emissions: 5 (metric tons CO2e)

Scope 2 global based emissions: 10 (metric tons CO2e)

Scope 3 emissions: 24 (metric tons CO2e)

Business Travel: 9 (metric tons CO2e)

Employee Commuting: 15 (metric tons CO2e)

Total Scope 1 & 2 emissions in 2020 was 15 (metric tons CO2e) which was a 6.3% decrease from 2019 which was 16 (metric tons CO2e). This is a 16.6% reduction from our 2017 baseline which was 18 (metric tons CO2e).

Scope 3 emissions was 24 (metric tons CO2e) which was a 68.8% decrease from 2019 which was 77 (metric tons CO2e). We will note that due to COVID-19 business travel and commuting was limited and we expect this year to be an anomaly.

Total Scope 1, 2 and 3 Emissions is 39 (metric tons CO2e).

We purchased the equivalent of 39 (metric tons CO2e) from TerraPass in 2021 to be carbon net neutral.