The company officially named sustainability as a “core company value” alongside trust, customer success, innovation, and equality. The company’s approach is evolving beyond the 1-1-1 model in a bid to enshrine its net-zero target and the needs of the planet back into its decision-making processes. Salesforce introduced a 1-1-1 model back in 1999, which commits the company to pledge 1% of the company’s equity, 1% of its product, and 1% of employees’ time back to society and planetary causes.Īs of 2022, 17,000 companies in over 100 countries have adopted the 1-1-1 model and Salesforce has given more than $240m in grants, 3.5 million hours of community service, and provided product donations for more than 39,000 non-profits and educational institutions since introducing the model. “To make business a force for good, we need to make sure we think about all stakeholders, the communities we work with in our employees, the planet and of course stakeholders as well.”įlynn notes that Salesforce has continuously evaluated and evolved its approach to business values and purpose, in an attempt to better reflect the needs of the planet and society.
“Whether you look at the climate emergency, biodiversity collapse or the challenges with equality, change is clearly needed. “At Salesforce we’ve always believed that business is the greatest platform for change and the planet needs big change and fast,” Flynn told edie as part of Net-Zero November. These entail halving Scope 1 (direct) and 2 (power-related) emissions by 2030, against a 2018 baseline halving Scope 3 (indirect) emissions from fuel and energy activities within the same timescale and supporting suppliers representing 60% of Scope 3 emissions to set their own targets in line with climate science by 2024.įor the company’s vice president and global head of sustainability Patrick Flynn, reaching net-zero emissions in the build up to COP26 was a landmark moment assisted by the company’s willingness to embrace disruptive challenges and sit them at the heart of the firm’s values. In a bid to drive further emissions reductions in-house and to reduce the use of carbon offsetting, the company has developed 1.5C-aligned targets, approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Prior to the announcement, Salesforce had already delivered a carbon-neutral cloud and operations.
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For some, the race has been run, net-zero has been reached, but the hard work doesn’t stop there.Īt the end of September 2021, global technology company Salesforce announced that was a net-zero company “across its full value chain” and had reached 100% renewable energy for its operations.
They’re building towards science-based targets and have invested in low-carbon solutions across the value chain. Others, only a select few, have already put the hard yards in. Targets are in place, but now they wait for the starting gun, a surefire sign that the low-carbon markets, political instruments and consumer demand are all pointed firmly towards a net-zero future. Many businesses are still at the starting line of this race. More than 8,000 companies across the globe have signed up to the UN’s Race to Zero initiative, the world’s largest collective alliance committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest. Flynn spoke to edie as part of Net-Zero November
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