Currently, 78% of its top 50 suppliers have integrated climate change initiatives into their strategies. Sky also works with its suppliers and customers to reduce their upstream and downstream emissions.These include renewable energy projects in India and China, forest conservation projects in Brazil and Indonesia, reforestation in Mexico and a water infrastructure project in Kenya.
Sky has also offset through more than 30 emissions reductions or removals projects that build low carbon sustainable development around the world.It achieved 100% renewable electricity in 2016 as part of its commitment to RE100, through on-site wind, combined heat and power, multiple green tariffs, and working with Natural Capital Partners to procure renewable electricity through Energy Attribute Certificates.It has also cut business travel emissions by over 30% for the UK & Ireland over the past decade Sky has delivered a 55% reduction in its carbon intensity (carbon emissions per unit of revenue) by reducing energy consumption, travel, waste and water use, improving fuel efficiency across its vehicle fleet, and infrastructure updates to improve energy efficiency.Sky is a CarbonNeutral company through a combination of efficiency measures, product innovation, renewable energy generation and procurement, and offsetting through external emission reduction projects.