APPENDIX

Corporate GHG Inventorying and
Target Setting Self-Assessment
Beta V1.0

April 2020

SERIV CENTER FOR CORPORATE

CLIMATE
LEADERSHIP

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Supporting organizations in GHG measurement and management • www.epa.gov/climateleadership


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Purpose of this Self-Assessment and How it Can Lead to Action

Companies are often in a stronger position to improve their greenhouse gas (GHG)
management efforts once they understand their relative performance compared to their peers.
In response to stakeholder interest, this Beta Version 1.0 Self-Assessment is designed to help
companies estimate, at a high level, how their GHG inventorying and target-setting approaches
compare to large peer companies representing different industry sectors. Once companies
estimate how their key GHG measurement and target-setting efforts compare to their peers,
they can evaluate, in greater detail, how other companies approach GHG inventorying and
target setting. Helping companies locate their GHG management efforts within the broader
market may spur competition, garner internal support for widening the scope of their GHG
inventories or setting more aggressive GHG reduction targets, and prioritize resources to
implement GHG reduction activities.

•	Entry-level: For companies beginning to address their GHG emissions, this resource
aims to help them identify which inventorying and target-setting actions reflect common
business practices today and provide them with a roadmap for developing their own
inventories and setting targets.

•	Intermediate: For companies further along their sustainability journey, this self-
assessment can validate more advanced inventorying and target-setting behaviors that
position them to deepen GHG emission reductions.

•	Advanced: For leading companies, this resource can also validate their efforts and
encourage them to explore implementing more cuttingedge GHG management efforts,
eventually pushing such innovations into the mainstream and sharing practices with
others.

As more companies inventory the full breadth of their GHG emissions, set ambitious targets,
and implement strategic and management decisions that drive down emissions, more
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Methodology

This Beta Version 1.0 Self-Assessment was developed by analyzing data to determine what
proportion of companies are implementing different practices within key GHG inventorying and
target-setting approaches practiced in the market today. While some target-setting measures
may be more feasible in some industries over others, practices featured in this self-assessment
can apply across all sectors.

•	Dataset: The dataset is driven by publicly disclosed data on GHG
inventorying and target setting from 565 companies within the S&P500 and
Fortune 500 as reported to CDP, a global platform featuring corporate
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data from nearly 7,000 companies. The
dataset includes some of the largest global publicly traded companies and
privately held companies spanning various industry sectors. All companies in
the dataset publicly disclosed at least some information, thus helping to
establish a range of inventorying and target-setting efforts across industries.

o Self-Reported Data: CDP maintains granular data for companies' scope

1, scope 2, and, where available, scope 3 emissions reported at an organizational or
financial level. Companies self-disclose their GHG emissions, and many companies
also include third-party verification to either limited or reasonable levels of
assurance. EPA did not further verify the data,
o Data Vintage: EPA evaluated data reported in CDP's 2018 Climate Change

questionnaire, which includes 2017, and some 2018, calendar or fiscal year data,
o Additional Data and Analysis: Given the data vintage, EPA assessed the public
platform RE100 pledge to update the number of companies pledging 100%
renewable energy targets, as of late March 2020. To assess the extent to which
corporations set other renewable energy targets, EPA analyzed green power usage as
a percentage of overall electricity usage from Fortune 500 companies participating
in its Green Power Partnership that also overlapped with the CDP dataset.

•	Further Insights: In assessing which inventorying and target-setting behaviors reflected
different ambition levels, EPA also leveraged its experience working with companies directly
through its ENERGY STAR and Green Power Partnership programs for approximately two
decades, observations of broader market trends in corporate GHG management over the
past decade, and direct discussions with companies and other key stakeholders who work
with companies on GHG inventorying and target setting in the past 24 months.

•	A list of all companies included in the dataset is available below.

Of note, EPA did not evaluate companies' emissions reductions themselves, as such data are
difficult to meaningfully assess when companies represent different sectors, may be structured
too differently to be comparable, or may have different GHG inventory baseline years against
which to measure progress.

Resources

Each GHG management practice featured includes resources companies can consult to
improve their GHG inventorying and target-setting efforts.

POWERED BY

CDP

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Key Findings on Corporate GHG Inventorying
& Reporting

The findings below reflect how many companies in the dataset implement key GHG
inventorying and reporting activities. A detailed examination of sector-based activities is also
included below.

Figure 1: Corporate GHG Inventorying and Reporting^

Company tracks and publicly records energy usage

Calculates + publicly discloses GHG emissions from operations
and purchased electricity

Calculates + publicly discloses some value chain GHG

emissions

Has analyzed climate-related opportunities that could have a
substantive business impact

Engages value chain on climate-related issues

Receives third party verification of its GHG emissions from all
operations and purchased electricity + publicly discloses results

Receives third party verification of its value chain GHG
emissions + publicly discloses results

0	200	400	600

Number of Companies

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A. GHG Inventorying and Reporting: Scope 1 and 2

From CDP Question C6.1: What were your organization's gross global scope 1
emissions in metric tons C02e?

From CDP Question 6.3: What were your organization's gross global scope 2
emissions in metric tons C02e?

Since the release of the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard nearly
two decades ago, thousands of companies annually report on their GHG emissions. Many
leading companies also disclose their GHG emissions publicly, which helps hold them
accountable to their emission reduction targets and GHG reductions over time. Most
companies in the dataset (84%) responded affirmatively to calculating and publicly disclosing
scope 1 and scope 2 emissions. The vast majority, at a minimum, measure and report their
energy use (89%). Reporting of scope 1 and scope 2 emissions is more common in specific
sectors. For example, in Figure 2: Percentage Of Companies Reporting Scope 1 And 2
Emissions By Sector, 69% of industrial companies in the dataset report scope 1 and scope 2
emissions, whereas 95% of companies in the communication services sector do so. In EPA's
experience working with companies via its partnership programs, a significant number of
leading companies have reported full scope 1 and 2 inventories for several years, some for over
a decade.

Figure 2: Percentage of Companies Inventorying and Reporting Scope 1 and 2 Emissions

by Sector

Communication Services
Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples
Energy
Financials
Health Care
Industrials
Information Technology
Materials
Real Estate
Utilities

20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Participation Percentage

Reporting " Not Reporting


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Figure 3: Percentage of Companies Tracking Energy Usage by Sector

Communication Services
Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples
Energy
Financials
Health Care
Industrials
Information Technology
Materials
Real Estate
Utilities

0%

95%
94%
94%
88%
98%
92%

73%

91%
92%
93%
96%

20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Participation Percentage

11%

89%

Companies Tracking Energy Use
Companies Not Tracking Energy Use

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B. Inventorying & Reporting Scope 3 Emissions &
Supplier Engagement

From CDP Question C6.5: Account for your organization's scope 3 emissions,
disclosing and explain any exclusions.

From CDP Question C12.1: Do you engage with your value chain on climate-related
issues?

Since the 2012 release of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3)
Standard and Technical Guidance for Calculating Scope 3 Emissions, more companies have
estimated or calculated the GHG emissions in their value chains. For many companies, up to
90% of their full GHG emissions footprint lies outside their owned and operated facilities.
Approximately three-quarters of the dataset responded affirmatively to calculating and publicly
disclosing some scope 3 emissions. Of the Guidance's 15 categories of scope 3 emissions, the
most often reported categories include business travel (51%), purchased goods and services
(31%), fuel and energy related activities (31%) and employee commuting (30%) (See Figure
5: Percentage of Scope 3 Categories Reported). Since 2013, the scope 3 emissions reported
increased on average by 13-14% for both U.S. and global companies.1 More advanced
companies have inventoried all scope 3 emission sources—a laborious and often complex
undertaking—and/or explained where GHG emissions in the supply chain are considered de
minims or cannot be calculated. In addition, programs such as the Science-Based Targets
Initiative (SBTi)2 and ISO 14064-1 are beginning to use significance of scope 3 impacts to
determine which scope 3 emissions to report.

More companies are also directly engaging their suppliers to measure, report, and reduce GHG
emissions. Nearly, 62% companies reported that they engage their value chain on climate-
related issues. Other companies have gone further to integrate supplier performance on GHG
management into business decisions.

1	https://www.greenbiz.com/report/2019-state-green-business-report

Greenbiz's State of Green Business report examines trends and metrics assessing how companies address
environmental challenges. GreenBiz produced the 2019 report in partnership with Trucost, part of S&P Global,
without EPA's involvement. GreenBiz's analyzed dataset may differ from the one used to develop this self-
assessment.

2	The Science-Based Targets Initiative is a joint effort of CDP, the UN Global Compact (UNGC), the World Resources
Institute (WRI) and WWF to enable leading companies to set ambitious corporate GHG reduction targets.

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Figure 4: Percentage of Companies Publicly Disclosing Scope 3 Emissions

Communication Services
Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples
Energy
Financials
Health Care
Industrials
Information Technology
Materials
Real Estate
Utilities

¦ 79%
72%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80%
Participation Percentage

38%

62%

100%

Reporting > Not Reporting

Figure 5: Percentage of Scope 3 Categories Reported

Business travel
Purchased goods and services
Employee commuting
Fuel-and-energy-related activities
Waste generated in operations
Upstream transportation and distribution
Downstream transportation and distribution

Capital goods
Use of sold products
End of life treatment of sold products
Upstream leased assets
Downstream leased assets
Investments
Processing of sold products
Other (downstream)
Franchises
Other (upstream)

51%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Participation Percentage

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C. Third-Party Verification

From CDP Question C10.1: Indicate the verification/assurance status that applies to
your reported emissions.

Third-party verification of GHG inventories helps companies establish credibility for their
climate-related disclosures. Over the past decade, third-party verification of GHG inventories
have become established service offerings. In the dataset analyzed, 50% of companies have
had their scope 1 and scope 2 emissions verified by a third party. In some instances,
companies will pursue third-party verification and share results with investors or customers but
may not publicize their GHG inventories. In other instances, companies who do not publicly
report full or partial GHG inventories, may still decline third-party verification for cost or other
reasons. Fewer companies (39%) pursue verification of scope 3 emissions, possibly because
they lack data to complete a full scope 3 inventory or lack confidence in their estimates, thus
not warranting third-party review and public reporting. Based on insights gleaned from
stakeholders familiar with different levels of assurance for third-party verification, most
companies pursue third-party verification to at least a limited level of assurance, whereas
reasonable levels of assurance from an accredited third-party verifier is activity typically seen
only in advanced companies.3 CDP does not differentiate between limited and reasonable
assurance in scoring methodology when evaluating companies' climate-related disclosure and
performance.

Figure 6: Percentage of Companies that Receive Third-Party Verification for Scope 1 and 2

Inventories

Communication Services
Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples
Energy
Financials
Health Care
Industrials
Information Technology
Materials
Real Estate
Utilities

58%
43%

56%
44%

52%

80%

87%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Participation Percentage

50%

50%

Conducts Third-Party Verification

Does Not Conduct Third-Party
Verification

3 More information on limited and reasonable levels of assurance can be found in the ISO 14064-3:2019 standard.

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Figure 7: Percentage of Companies that Receive Third-Party Verification for Scope 3

Inventories

Communication Services
Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples
Energy
Financials
Health Care
Industrials
Information Technology
Materials
Real Estate
Utilities

73%

73%

30%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Participation Percentage

61%

39%

Conducts Third-Party Verification

Does Not Conduct Third-Party
Verification

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D. Analysis of Business Impacts

From CDP Question C2.4: Has your company identified any climate-related
opportunities with the potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on
your business?

From CDP Question C2.4a: Provide details of opportunities identified with the
potential to have a substantive financial or strategic impact on your business
(Opportunity types are listed in the 2018 and 2019 CDP Climate Change
Questionnaire as: resource efficiency, energy source, products and services,
markets, resilience).

From CDP Question (C3.1a): Explain how climate-related issues are integrated into
your business objectives and strategy.

Typically, once companies have become more experienced in assessing their GHG impacts,
they are better positioned to assess climate-related strategic or financial opportunities,
especially those pertaining to their energy use and/or GHG emissions. Opportunities may
include cost reductions from energy and resource efficiency, development of new products and
services which may gain the company access to new markets, and cleaner energy sources.

From the dataset, 66% companies have analyzed and publicly reported at least some of these
financial or strategic impacts (See Figure 8: Percentage Of Companies That Analyzed Climate-
Related Opportunities That Can Have A Substantive Financial Or Strategic Impact On Their
Business).

In addition to evaluating climate-related opportunities, companies are increasingly assessing
their climate-related transition risks. The Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure
(TCFD)'s reporting framework, launched in 2017, provides companies guidance for developing
a materiality assessment of their climate risk to demonstrate how climate change affects
companies, their contribution to climate change, and how they will insulate themselves from
the physical, financial, reputational, and regulatory risks posed by climate change. While few
companies have completed and publicly reported a materiality assessment at this time, more
companies are beginning to develop TCFD reports in response to growing investor expectations
for companies to develop and disclose any substantive climate-related financial impacts,
including transition risk impacts. Additionally, with the release of Sustainability Accounting
Standards Board (SASB)'s reporting standards in late 2018 that complement TCFD reporting,
stakeholders anticipate seeing annual increases in investor-focused reporting on climate-
related risk and opportunities according to widely accepted frameworks. Future versions of this
self-assessment can examine corporate disclosure on climate-related transition risk.

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Figure 8: Percentage of Companies that Analyzed Climate-Related Opportunities that can
have a Substantive Financial or Strategic Impact on their Business

Communication Services
Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples
Energy
Financials
Health Care
Industrials
Information Technology
Materials
Real Estate
Utilities

¦	74%
71%
173%

¦	81%

93%

78%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Participation Percentage

34%

66%

Reporting ¦ Not Reporting

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Key Findings for Trends in Corporate Target
Setting to Reduce GHG Emissions

The findings below reflect how companies in the dataset are setting targets to reduce their
GHG emissions. A detailed examination of activities is also included below in Figure 9:
Corporate Target Setting To Reduce GHG Emissions, which shows the percentage of companies
in the dataset that have absolute GHG emission reduction targets (44%), scope 3 targets
(12%) and renewable energy use targets (8%), respectively.

Figure 9: Corporate Target Setting to Reduce GHG Emissions

Set an absolute GHG emissions reduction
target for its operations and purchased
electricity

44%

Set a value chain GHG emissions reduction
target

12%

Set a 100% renewable energy use target 8%

I

0 100 200 300 400 500

Number of Companies

600

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A. Scope 1 and 2 Emissions Reduction Targets

CDP Question C4.1a: Provide details of your absolute emissions target(s) and
progress made against those targets.

CDP Question C4.1b Provide details of your emissions intensity target(s) and
progress made against those target(s).

For nearly 20 years, EPA has engaged companies to develop GHG emission reduction targets
or created resources to help them do so. Starting in 2009, EPA observed that, increasingly,
companies set absolute reduction targets to decouple production of goods and services from
emissions growth. While many leading companies have set an absolute reduction target----44%
of the dataset recorded setting an absolute scope 1 and/or scope 2 emission reduction target
(.Figure 10: Percentage Of Companies By Sector With Emissions Intensity Vs Absolute
Reduction Targets)—companies also continue to set ambitious intensity targets that lead to
substantial reductions.

Within the past few years, companies have increasingly participated in the Science-Based
Targets Initiative (SBTi); more than 800 companies across sectors and geographies have
developed or pledged to develop a Science-Based Target.4 According to the SBTi, targets
adopted by companies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are considered "science-
based" if they aligned with climate science to limit global warming to well-below 2°C above pre-
industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C. Companies participating in the
SBTi can set intensity-based targets for scope 1 and 2 emissions only if they result in absolute
emission reductions in line with climate scenarios for keeping global warming to well below 2°C
or when they are modelled using an approved sector pathway. Until recently, SBTi recognized
new targets consistent with the level of decarbonization required to keep global temperature
increase to 2°C compared to preindustrial temperatures. As Figure 11: Percentage of
Companies by Sector with Absolute Reduction Targets shows, many companies across several
sectors have set absolute reductions targets, with a growing number developing reduction
targets aligned with current climate science. Fewer companies to date have had their targets
approved by the SBTi.

Currently, a handful of leading companies are setting net zero targets to demonstrate their
corporate climate commitments. Most of these companies have several years of experience
developing full scope 1, 2 and 3 inventories and setting absolute GHG reduction targets to
allow them to understand investments and efforts needed to achieve such ambitious measures.
As companies begin to use various terminology to describe their net zero or greater
commitments-- including terms such as 'carbon neutral' or 'carbon negative,'-- greater
clarification is needed to accurately describe this emerging level of ambition.

4 Companies committing to a Science Based Target current as of March 15, 2020. A complete list of companies who
have committed to set Science Based Targets: https://sciencebasedtargets.org/whv-set-a-science-based-target/

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Figure 10: Percentage of Companies by Sector with Emissions Intensity vs. Absolute

Reduction Targets

Communication Services

Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples
Energy
Financials

Health Care
Industrials
Information Technology
Materials
Real Estate
Utilities

0%

53%
53%

49%

31%

38'
38%

64%

61%

60%

63%

10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Participation Percentage

Intensity Targets

i Absolute Targets

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Figure 11: Percentage of Companies by Sector with Absolute Reduction Targets

53%

Communication Services
Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples
Energy
Financials
Health Care
Industrials
Information Technology
Materials
Real Estate
Utilities

16%

18%

17%

16%

11%

13%

25%

44%

37%

47%

31%

64%

24%

8% 6%



26%

9% 3%l



24%

18%

39%
38%

49%

24%	5% 2<

40%

26%

31%

13% 7%

60%
63%

0%

10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Participation Percentage

i Has an absolute scope 1 and/or scope 2 target

Has an absolute scope 1 and/or scope 2 target and is considered to be a science based target

Has an absolute scope 1 and/or scope 2 target that has been approved as science-based by
the Science Based Targets Initiative

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B. Scope 3 Emissions Reduction Target

CDP Question C4.1: Did you have an emissions target that was active in the reporting
year?

CDP Question C4.1a: Provide details of your absolute emissions target(s) and
progress made against those targets.

CDP Question C4.1b Provide details of your emissions intensity target(s) and
progress made against those target(s).

For most sectors, the biggest sources of GHG emissions lie in their upstream and downstream
value chains, outside their operational or financial control. As companies become more
experienced with developing scope 3 inventories and assessing the GHG impacts of their
upstream and downstream suppliers, some have taken steps to publicly announce targets to
reduce emissions across their entire value chain. Leading companies set GHG reduction targets
that tackle the largest sources of their scope 3 category emissions, often the manufacture and
transport of their goods and services or employee travel, depending on the sector. Notable
examples of companies with supply chain GHG reduction efforts include Walmart's Project
Gigaton, HP's scope 3 target announced in 2015, and Apple's supplier engagement program
that includes efforts to reduce upstream supply chain energy impacts in other countries.

Developing and publicly announcing a scope 3 reduction target is challenging, as reflected in
the dataset, where only 12% of companies assessed set a scope 3 reduction target. However,
prior to developing value chain reduction targets, companies often have already begun
engaging their suppliers to measure and report emissions, as 62% of reported that they
engage their value chain on climate-related issues. The SBTi requires companies to include
scope 3 emissions reductions in their science-based targets if more than 40% of a company's
total GHG footprint is found in its value chain. In developing an SBTi-approved science-based
target, companies must set one or more emission reduction targets and/or supplier or
customer engagement target that collectively covers at least 2/3 of total scope 3 emissions in
conformance with the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and
Reporting Standard. Despite only 12% of companies analyzed in the dataset having reported
scope 3 reduction targets, over 800 companies globally have developed or committed to
develop a science-based target through SBTi, many of which will include scope 3 reductions.

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Figure 12: Percentage of Companies with Scope 3 Reduction Targets (by sector)

Communication Services
Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples

Energy 0%
Financials
Health Care 0%
Industrials
Information Technology
Materials
Real Estate
Utilities

12%

13%

15%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
Participation Percentage

Has a Scope 3 Target

Does Not Have a Scope 3 Target

Figure 13: Breakdown of Scope 3 Targets (by sector)

Communication Services
Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples

Energy 0%
Financials
Health Care 0%
Industrials
Information Technology

Materials 1351 2%

Real Estate
Utilities

0%	5%

¦ Has an absolute scope 3 target

7%

21%

15%

13%

15%

10%	15% 20%

Participation Percentage

25%

30%

Has an absolute scope 3 target and is considered to be a science based target

Has an absolute scope 3 target that has been approved as science-based by the Science Based
Targets Initiative

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C. Renewable Energy

CDP Question C4.1: Did you have an emissions target that was active in the reporting
year?

CDP Question C4.1a: Provide details of your absolute emissions target(s) and
progress made against those targets C4.1b: Provide details of your emissions
intensity target(s) and progress made against those target(s)

CDP Question C4.2: Provide details of other key climate-related targets not already
reported in question C4.1/a/b.

Renewable energy plays a key role in the shift to a low carbon economy. Companies globally
are committing to setting ambitious renewable energy targets, with over 2265 companies
having set 100% renewable energy procurement targets through the RE100 initiative.6 In the
dataset analyzed, 8% of companies have committed to setting 100% renewable energy use
target,7 however, this number is expected to grow steadily as more companies announce
ambitious targets.

Whereas many companies use the term "100% renewable energy," a more accurate term
might be a "100% renewable electricity target," as many companies seek to mitigate their
scope 2 emissions with this target and often use "energy" and "electricity" interchangeably.
Renewable electricity is a subset of renewable energy. Further clarification is needed across
programs and initiatives on whether "100 renewable" targets apply only to electricity
purchased or all forms of energy. Committing to 100% renewable energy use can be easily
achievable for some sectors, namely those that purchase large amounts of electricity (e.g.,
datacenters) but challenging for other sectors (e.g., some industrial companies) that rely on
thermal energy, where fewer options for commercially available and cost-effective renewable
alternatives currently exist.

EPA chose to analyze data from the Green Power Partnership (GPP) instead of the renewable
energy purchased amounts disclosed in the CDP dataset to ensure that, absent more details,
renewable energy purchases evaluated aligned with its programmatic approach. The GPP
references the widely accepted U.S. voluntary market definition for green power as a subset of
renewable energy representing those renewable energy resources and technologies that provide
the highest environmental benefit. All GPP partners purchase green power in alignment with
this definition. The majority of GPP Partners purchase green power for renewable electricity,
hence the data analyzed for determining different ambition levels in the Self-Assessment best
reflect setting targets for purchasing renewable electricity.

As options for sourcing renewable energy have expanded in recent years, more companies are
able to set increasingly ambitious procurement targets, even if they do not cover the full scope
of their electricity purchases. To understand how companies' actual purchases could reflect
different renewable energy target ambition levels in the market today, EPA examined

5	As of 27th February 2020, http://therelOO.org/companies

6	http://therelOO.org/companies

7	Dataset was crosschecked with RElOO's list of participating companies as of 27th February 2020

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purchasing data from its Fortune 500 companies in its Green Power Partnership (GPP) that
also overlapped with the dataset used for developing the self-assessment.8

GPP Partners include 16% of all Fortune 500 companies and 35% of all Fortune 100
companies; 57 GPP Fortune 500 Partners companies (or 74% of GPP Fortune 500 Partners)
overlapped with the CDP dataset. On average, these GPP Partners' green power use
represents 57% of their individual electricity consumption. Additionally, the average green
power consumption as a percentage of total electricity used is 60% across all 75 Fortune 500
companies participating in the GPP (see end of Appendix for the list of additional companies
assessed). In EPA's experience, companies newer to purchasing green power often choose to
buy at a lower percentage of their overall electricity use, increasing their procurement once
they gain experience with green power product options. In select cases, partners purchase
green power in excess of 100% of their US organization-wide electricity use, often on behalf of
third- party facilities outside their operational control.

Figure 14: Percentage of Companies with 100% Renewable Energy Targets

Communication Services
Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples

Energy 0%

Financials	20%

Health Care	4%

Industrials ¦ 2%

Information Technology

Materials	3%

Real Estate ^^^^B 7%

Utilities 0%

0%	10%	20%

Participation Percentage

12%

30%

92%

Reporting " Not Reporting

8 https://www.epa.gov/greenpower/what-green-power

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Figure 15: Green Power as a Percentage of Total Electricity Purchased
(dataset includes 57 green power partnership companies also in the CDP dataset)

Communication Services
Consumer Discretionary
Consumer Staples
Energy
Financials
Health Care
Industrials
Information Technology
Materials
Real Estate
Utilities

62%

40%





53%

o%



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Dataset of Companies Assessed

Communication Services

Alphabet, Inc.*

AT&T Inc.*

CBS Corp.

CenturyLink"

Comcast Corporation

DG3 NORTH AMERICA INC

Edelman

Interpublic Group of
Companies, Inc.

Level 3 Communications, Inc.
News Corp
Omnicom Group Inc.

PCTEL
Syni verse
T Mobile USA incf
Twenty-First Century Fox
Verizon Communications Inc.
Viacom Inc.

Walt Disney Company
WORLDWIDE TECHNOLOGY
HOLDING COMPANY
Consumer Discretionary
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
All Access Apparel, Inc.
American Textile Company, Inc.
APPLIED ACOUSTICS
INTERNATIONAL
Bernhardt Design a Division of
Bernhardt Furniture Company
Best Buy Co., Inc.*"
BorgWarner
Caesars Entertainment
Carnival Corporation
Compatico

Cooper Standard Automotive
Cousin Corporation of America
Dana

Davies Office Refurbising, Inc.
Domino Foods, Inc.

Dunkin' Brands Group
eBay Inc.f
Epic Designers
Ford Motor Company
Gap Inc."

Garan Manufacturing Corp
General Motors Company*f
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Company
Hanesbrands Inc.

Hasbro, Inc.

Hilton Worldwide, Inc.*"

Hyatt Hotels
JCPenney
Kimball Office
Kohl's Corporation
Kohler Co.

Krueger International, Inc
L Brands, Inc.

Las Vegas Sands Corporation
Levi Strauss & Co.

Lowe's Companies, Inc.

Macy's, Inc.*

Marriott International, Inc.
McDonald's Corporation
MGM Resorts International
Multipet International
National Office Furniture
Neapco
NIKE Inc.f"

OFS Brands
PACCAR Inc

Pacific Market International
PVH Corpf"

Radio Flyer Incf
Rockline Industries
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd
Shason Inc.

SMART Modular Technologies

Tapestry Inc

Tenneco

The Home Depot, Inc.

Tiffany & Co.

TJX Companies, Inc.

Town & Country Linen

VF Corporationf

Visteon

VIVOTEK LTD

Wyndham Destinations, Inc.*
Yotrio Group
Yum! Brands, Inc.

Consumer Staples
Albertsons Companies, LLC*
Alliance One International Inc.
Altria Group, Inc.*

ANISA INTERNATIONAL INC
Archer Daniels Midland
Avon Products, Inc.

Bright International Corp.
Brown-Forman Corporation
Bumble Bee Foods LLC
Bunge

Campbell Soup Company
Cargill"

Church & Dwight Co., Inc
Clorox Company
Colgate Palmolive Company*
Conagra Brands Inc
Constellation Brands, Inc.
Costco Wholesale Corporation
Crown Prince
Del Monte Foods
Estee Lauder Companies lnc.*f
Farmer Brothers

General Mills Inc.*

Harris Tea Company
HARVEST LAND CO-OP, INC.
Healthy Food Ingredients
Hormel Foods
Hp Hood Lie
INDULGENT FOODS
Ingredion Incorporated
Kellogg Companyf
Keurig Dr Pepperf
Keurig Green Mountain
Kimberly-Clark Corporation*
Kroger
Labbeemint

Mario Camacho Foods, Lie
Marsf

McCormick & Company,
Incorporated"

Molson Coors Brewing
Company"

Mondelez International Inc"
Nordstrom, Inc.

Norpac Foods, Inc.

Pacific World Corporation
PepsiCo, Inc.

Perfection Bakeries Inc.

Philip Morris International
Pinnacle Foods Group
Procter & Gamble Company*f
Roskam Baking
Company/Rothbury Farms
Sensory Effects
Smithfield Foods, Inc.

Star of the West
Starbucks Corporation*!
Sysco Corporation
Target Corporationf"
The Coca-Cola Companyf"
The J.M. Smucker Company
The Kraft Heinz Company
Tyson Foods, Inc.

UNFI

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Walgreens Boots Alliance
Walmart, lnc.*f
Energy
Anadarko Petroleum
Corporation

Baker Hughes, a GE Company
California Resources Corp
ConocoPhillips
CONSOL Energy Inc
Devon Energy Corporation
DTE Energy Company
EOG Resources, Inc.

Fluor Corporation
Halliburton Company

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Hess Corporation
Occidental Petroleum
Corporation
Oneok Inc.

PS ENERGY GROUP INC
Vectren Corporation
Wisconsin Energy Conservation
Corporation (WECC)

Financials
Affiliated Managers Group
AFLAC Incorporated
Allstate Insurance Company
American Express*

American International Group,
Inc. (AIG)

Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

Aon pic

Assurant, Inc.

Bank of America*f

BlackRock

Bloombergf

BNY Mellon*

Capital One Financial*!

Charles Schwab Corporation

Chubb Limited

Cincinnati Financial Corporation
Citigroup lnc.*f
Citizens Financial Group Inc
Comerica Incorporated
Ernst & Young LLP (USA)

Fifth Third Bancorp*

Franklin Resources, Inc.
Genworth Financial, Inc.
Goldman Sachs Group lnc.*f
Huntington Bancshares
Incorporated
JPMorgan Chase & Co.*f
KeyCorp

Legg Mason, Inc.

Lincoln National Corporation
Marsh & McLennan Companies,
Inc.

MetLife, Inc.*

Morgan Stanleyf
PNC Financial Services Groupf
Principal Financial Group, Inc.
Prudential Financial, Inc.
Regions Financial Corporation
State Street Corporation*
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
The Hartford Financial Services
Group, Inc.

The Travelers Companies, Inc.
U.S. Bancorp
Unum Group*

Voya Financial*!

Wells Fargo & Company*f
World Bank Group
Health Care
Abbott Laboratories
AbbVie Inc

Aetna Inc.*

Agilent Technologies Inc.
Allergan pic

AmerisourceBergen Corp.
Amgen, Inc.

Anthem Incf

Baxter International Inc.*
Becton, Dickinson and Co.
Biogen Inc.*

Bristol-Myers Squibb
Cardinal Health Inc.

Celgene Corporation*

Charles River Laboratories
International Inc.

Cigna

Comar, Inc.

CVS Health

Dentsply Sirona Inc.

Edwards Lifesciences Corp

Eli Lilly & Co.

Express Scripts Holding

Company

Henry Schein Inc.

Hologic, Inc.

Humana Inc.

Johnson & Johnson*f

KOBO PRODUCTS

Laboratory Corporation of

America Holdings

MEDELA INC

Medtronic PLC

Merck & Co., Inc.

Mettler-Toledo International Inc.

Norwood Medical

PerkinElmer, Inc.

Pfizer Inc.

Quest Diagnostics

Incorporated*

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals,

Inc.

STERIS Corporation
Stryker Corporation
Tenet Healthcare Corporation
Tower Labs
Trillium Health Care
UnitedHealth Group Inc
Varex Imaging Corporation
Varian Medical Systems Inc
VWR International LLC
Waters Corporation
West Pharmaceutical Services
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.*
Industrials
3M Company*f
ABM INDUSTRIES INC
American Airlines Group Inc
American Cleaning Supply, Inc.
Amtrak
Aptiv
Arconic

ARTESYN EMBEDDED

TECHNOLOGIES

AVIOTRADE INC

BECK GROUP - HC BECK

Boeing Company*

Brady Corporation

CALIENTE CONSTRUCTION INC

CAMPBELL WRAPPER CORP

Cartus

Central Business Forms, Inc
CHA HOLDINGS
Chroma

Clune Construction Company
CONTROLPOINT
TECHNOLOGIES
CORPORATE CARE
CSX Corporation
Cummins Inc.^

DAVEY TREE EXPERT
Deere & Company
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Limited
Delta Air Lines
Dover Corporation
DW Morgan, LLC
Eaton Corporation
EMCOR Group Inc.

Emerson Electric Co.
EMO TRANS

Expeditors International of
Washington
F&G CONSTRUCTION
FedEx Corporation*

FORGE INDUSTRIES INC
General Electric Company
GROUP 0, INC
GZA Geoenvironmental, Inc.
Hamilton Safe Company
Harris Corporation
Hartford Paving
Harvard Maintenance, Inc.
Herman Miller
Hertz Global Holdings*

Hi-Lex Corporation
HNI Corporation
Honeywell International Inc.
IHS Markit Ltd.

Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd.

Interface, Inc.

Jetblue Airways Corporation
Johnson Controls International
PLC

K&A Machine & Tool, Inc.
Kansas City Southern
KC Transportation
Kelly Services
Lennox International Inc
Lockheed Martin Corporation*
LOUREIRO ENGINEERING
ASSOCIATES, INC.

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M&M Cartage
ManpowerGroup
Masco Corporation
MENEMSHA COMPANIES
MILAN EXPRESS CO INC
MILLENNIUM TECHNICAL
SERVICES

Modern Machine & Metal
Fabricators, Inc.

ModusLink Corporation
Navistar International
Corporation

NEW ENGLAND UTILITY
CONSTRUCTORS
Norfolk Southern Corp.
NORTHERN CLEARING
Northrop Grumman Corp
Northwest Seaport Alliance
OMARK Consultants, Inc.
Owens Corning^
Parker-Hannifin Corporation
Pitney Bowes Inc.

Port of Tacoma
POTTERS CONSTRUCTION
PRECISION PIPELINE
SOLUTIONS
Raytheon Company*

REGAL BELOIT
Republic Services, Inc.^
Rinchem Company Inc
ROBIN ENTERPRISES CO
Rockwell Automation
Ryder System, Inc.

Satellite Logistics Group
SERIGRAPH, INC.

SONIM TECHNOLOGIES INC
Southwest Airlines Co.*
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
Steelcasef

Suez Treatment Solutions
Tennant Company
Terex Corporation
Tessy Plastics
Textron Inc.

Thomson Reuters Corporation
Tosoh SMD
Trans-Expedite Inc.

TSM CORP
Turtle & Hughes
ULTRA TOOL &
MANUFACTURING, INC.

Union Pacific Corporation
United Continental Holdings
United Technologies
Corporation
UPS

W.W. Grainger, Inc.

Waste Management, Inc.
Wesco International
Xylem Inc
Information Technology

Accenturef^

Actiontec Electronics
Adobe, Inc.f
ADTRAN INC
Akamai Technologies Inc
Alliance Data Systems
AMKOR TECHNOLOGY INC
Analog Devices, Inc.

Apple lnc.*f
Applied Materials Inc.*

Arista Networks
Autodesk, Inc.f

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

Avaya^

Bel Fuse Inc.

Booz Allen Hamilton

Broadridge Financial Solutions

Inc

CA Technologies

CABOT MICROELECTRONICS

CORP

Cavium

Ciena Corp.

Cisco Systems, Inc.*

CommScope, Inc.

CREE INC.

Cypress Semiconductor

Corporation

Dell Technologies*!

Entegris Inc

Exela Technologies

First Solar Inc

Fiserv, Inc.

Flex Ltd.

Form Factor Inc.

Fourstar Connections, Inc.

GENESYS EUROPE LTD (Global)

H&R Block Inc

Hewlett Packard Enterprisef

HP lnc*f

Ingram Micro Inc.

Integrated Device Technology,

Inc.

Intel Corporation*

IBM*

Intuit Inc.^

Iron Mountain Inc.f^

Jabil Inc.

Juniper Networks, Inc.

Keysight Technologies Inc
Kimball Electronics
KLA

Kmg Electronic Materials
Lam Research Corp.

LATTICE SEMICONDUCTOR
Leidos

Lenovo Group

Lexmark International, Inc.

LUMENTUM

Marvell Technology Group, Ltd.
MasterCard Incorporated

Microchip Technology
Micron Technology, Inc.
Microsemi Corporationf
Microsoft Corporation*^
Milestone AV Technologies
Moody's Corporation
Motorola Solutions
NetApp Inc.

NVIDIA Corporation
Oracle Corporation*
QUALCOMM Inc.

S&P Global
salesforce.com*f^

Seagate Technology LLC^
SEMTECH

SHI International Corp.

Sungard Availability Services
(Sungard AS)

Sykes Enterprises Incorporated
Symantec Corporation
TE Connectivity
Teradata Corp.

Teradyne Inc.

Texas Instruments Incorporated

Trimble Navigation Ltd.

Unisys Corporation

Verisk Analytics Inc

Versum

Virtusa

Visaf

VMware, Inc
Western Digital Corp
Worldpay Inc
Xerox Corporation*

Xilinx Inc
Materials
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
AK Steel Holding Corporation
Alcoa Corp.

American Packaging
AptarGroup

Ashland Global Holdings Inc
Avery Dennison Corporation
Axalta Coating Systems
Ball Corporation
BELLIS STEEL COMPANY, INC.
Bemis Company
Berry Global Group, Inc
Birla Carbon
Brewer Science
Cabot Corporation
Celanese Corporation
Compass Minerals International
Inc

COX INDUSTRIES
CRC INDUSTRIES INC
Crown Holdingsf
DowDuPont

E.I. du Pont de Nemours and
Company

Eastman Chemical Company

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Ecolab Inc.

Ecova, Inc.

FMC Corp

Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

Fujimi Incorporated
Gates Corporation
Genfoot America Inc
Graphic Packaging
Greif Inc^

GW Plastics
H.B. Fuller

International Flavors &
Fragrances Inc.f^

International Paper Company
J M HUBER
KIK Custom Products
LyondellBasell Industries N.V.
Moses Lake Industries
NDK

Newmont Mining Corporation
Norcom, Inc.

Novelis Inc.

Packaging Corporation of
America

PPG Industries, Inc.

Praxair, Inc.

Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.
Sealed Air Corp.
Sherwin-Williams Company

Silgan Plastics

The Dow Chemical Company*
The Mosaic Company
Tosoh Quartz
Trinseo LLC

Vulcan Materials Company
WestRock Company
WS Hampshire, Inc.

Zatkoff Seals and Packing
Real Estate
AvalonBay Communities^
CBRE Group, Inc.

Digital Realty Trust Inc
EQUINIX, INC.f
Forest City Realty Trust
HCP Inc.

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.^
JLL

Kimco Realty
Macerich Co.

MILLENNIUM REAL ESTATE

SERVICE

Prologis^

Simon Property Group
Ventas Inc
Welltower Inc.

Utilities
Ameren Corporation

American Electric Power

Company, Inc.

American Water Works

Aqua America Inc.

Avangrid Inc

CMS Energy Corporation

Covanta Energy Corporation

Dominion Energy

Duke Energy Corporation

Eversource Energy

Exelon Corporation

FirstEnergy Corporation

Idacorp Inc

NiSource Inc.

NORTHLINE UTILITIES

NRG Energy Inc

OGE Energy Corp.

Ormat Technologies Inc

PG&E Corporation

Pinnacle West Capital

Corporation

PPL Corporation

Public Service Enterprise Group

Inc.

Sempra Energy
The AES Corporation
The Southern Company
WEC Energy Group
Xcel Energy Inc.

*Companies that are Partners in EPA's Green Power Partnership
fCompanies with 100% renewable energy targets
^Companies with updated Science-Based Targets

Additional Green Power Partnership Partner Companies
Assessed for Renewable Energy Target Setting:

BD

Netflix, Inc.

PayPal, Inc. / U.S. Data
Centers

The Hartford Financial
Services Group Inc.
Wynn Las Vegas
United Services
Automobile Association
(USAA)

Kohl's

Department Stores
Whirlpool Corporation

Penske Truck Leasing
Co., L.P./Penske
Logistics, LLC
United Natural Foods,
Inc.

General Dynamics Land
Systems / Central Office
Office Depot, Inc /
Headquarters
Ulta Inc.

General Dynamics Land
Systems / Scranton
Time Warner Cable /
Central Texas

United Parcel Service
(UPS) / Palm Springs,
CA Facility

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