Apex Transact' current strategy period is 2022–2024. During this period the group-wide targets are to reduce emissions by 15 percent (base year 2019) and the number of injuries by 15 percent (base year 2021). Apex Transact reviews progress on the group-wide targets annually and also monitors a number of key ratios within climate and environment, social responsibility and sustainable governance. 

Apex Transact is using a third-party system to handle all sustainability data. The system is tailored for reporting of sustainability data and KPIs. This facilitates and validates the process of systematically collecting, confirming, calculating and reporting sustainability data in the areas of health and safety, the environment and corporate governance. Each country reports data quarterly and for the whole year. In case activity based data is not available, extrapolations or estimations are done based on cost and internal benchmark. The data is verified centrally by Apex Transact.

 

All climate reporting in Scope 1 and 2 is based on the the GHG Protocol, the international Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative, and is done through the third-party system. The emissions factors in the system’s database are updated on a yearly basis, according to best practice. Calculations of carbon emissions from transport (Scope 1) are made in relation to absolute volume, and emissions from the vehicle fleet in relation to distance driven. 

Calculations of carbon emissions from purchased energy (Scope 2) are carried out according to both the GHG location-based method and the market-based method. All data on gender distribution, job distribution, age distribution and collective agreements is based on the number of full-time equivalent employees, FTEs, at year-end.