Protecting the environment

Target

Reduce our Scope 1 and 2 (market-based) absolute emissions by 50% by 2030 (from 2019).

Approach

Decarbonisation roadmaps across our regions are helping us drive emissions reductions from our operations as our business evolves.

Key drivers include:

• Sourcing electricity from renewable sources, backed by renewable energy certificates, accounting for 93% of our total electricity use in FY26.
• Reducing energy use through energy efficiency measures and optimisation of our operations.
• Supporting the transition to low-carbon vehicles, with hybrid or electric models making up 67% of our global fleet in FY26.

Progress

90% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 in FY26 from 2019.

Target

Suppliers covering 78% of Experian’s spend* to have science-based targets by 2029.

Approach

The majority of our Scope 3 emissions come from our supply chain so engagement with suppliers is critical to reduce our value chain footprint.

We have established a global roadmap, supported by internal milestones, to drive year-on-year progress towards our target.

• A key lever is building a Sustainability Commitment into contracts with our largest suppliers that commits them to set a science-based target and to report their greenhouse gas emissions to us. 
• We are working to improve the coverage and accuracy of supplier emissions data through the CDP supplier engagement programme, including product or service-level emissions where feasible.
• We continue to integrate climate considerations into supplier review meetings. We meet regularly with our strategic suppliers to track progress and enhance our capabilities for modelling suppliers’ decarbonisation journeys. 

Progress

Suppliers covering 41% of Experian’s spend  have science-based targets in FY26.

*Suppliers by spend covering Purchased Goods and Services, Capital Goods and Upstream Leased Assets.

Approach

We report on climate-related risks and opportunities in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). 

We are committed to identifying, assessing and managing risks and opportunities presented by climate change, both now and in the future. We report both transition and physical impact risk and opportunities and update our analysis of these risks annually.

Our Annual Report includes more information on specific climate risks and how we manage them.

Approach

A just transition to Net Zero entails transitioning to a low-carbon economy in a way that is fair and inclusive. Working towards achieving this aligns to our ambition to help people thrive on their financial journey and our commitment to financial inclusion. Experian is uniquely positioned to support this shift; by harnessing our data and analytics capabilities to help financial institutions assess climate-related risks, develop inclusive green finance products, and identify underserved populations who may be disproportionately affected by the transition. Our approach ensures that the path to Net Zero is not only environmentally sound but also socially responsible - unlocking inclusive growth and mitigating systemic risk.

In FY26 we worked with the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to showcase how we’re contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through products and services that are helping to enhance access to finance and promote sustainable land use among farmers in Brazil.

In FY23, we identified more than 2 million single-use plastic items used in our operations that could be avoided – including stirrers, straws, cutlery, bottled drinks and plastic‑lined coffee cups.

We set an ambition to eliminate as much of this as possible by FY26 and created a global guide to support this transition across our regions.

Local initiatives and awareness campaigns engaged employees to do their bit to help and together we phased out the vast majority of single-use plastics across our operations.

Moving to reusable coffee cups is a key focus. In Brazil, where we were using over 500,000 plastic-lined disposable coffee cups annually, we provided colleagues with ceramic mugs and ran a creative communications campaign titled ‘My mug makes a difference’ to support the transition to reusable cups.

Progress

90% reduction in avoidable single-use plastics in FY26 from FY23.

Our most significant water consumption is for cooling in our data centres.

We conducted a water stress risk analysis of our global sites, focused on data centres, using the World Resources Institute (WRI) Water Risk Atlas.

The analysis found that three of our data centres are located in areas of high-risk for water stress. Only one of these – in Texas, USA – uses water for cooling. The fourth data centre is in an area of low to medium risk.

We measure water consumption at the two Experian owned data centres that use water in their cooling systems to monitor trends and identify opportunities to reduce usage. Both use a closed loop system.

This data is reported as part our Sustainability performance data.

We have mapped our global operations against key biodiversity areas and protected areas.

To do this, we used the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures’ LEAP (locate, evaluate, assess and prepare) approach as a guiding framework.

We found that only one of our sites is located in an area of biodiversity risk, a small office in South Africa.

Our operations do not depend on biodiversity or present any risk to biodiversity.