Background

Our principal environmental impacts are:

• Energy used in our buildings and the associated emissions
  
  
• Fuel use and emissions from employee business travel (road, rail and air)
  
  
• The production of general waste at our premises
  
  
• Our use of materials in the office environment.

Overall environmental responsibility lies with our Global Director of Facilities, who co-ordinates action worldwide.  The facilities teams in each of our regions are then responsible for defining and implementing improvement projects in support of the policy’s objectives.

All of Experian’s Nottingham, UK sites are accredited to the environmental management standard ISO14001.  This systematic approach involves:

• a careful audit of the environmental impacts from the site
  
  
• the setting of targets and action plans to reduce those impacts
  
  
• defined roles and responsibilities for the targets and actions
  
  
• re-audit and follow up to check progress.

The ISO14001 standard is independently assessed and covers sites housing approximately 2,400 people.

We record where we can the impacts of our global travel.  The raw data behind these calculations is provided by our travel partners (agents) who arrange rail and air tickets on our behalf.